Recent content by Mikerb

Nice....yes I find fitting the extender cable a bit of a pain as well! Without getting too personal I would guess you are heavidr than me...I am 70kg fully kitted......which is possibly why I find the DB8s good as provided. My son lives over in Devon so I have ridden the Quatocks with him...not...

A few rides in now.....all country type rides. Yesterday I did a 16 mile loop across the Jurassic Coast upper path. I used EMTB for the entire ride which includesa fair bit of climbing and used c 30% battery (650 w/h fully charged fixed+extender) . As above I have EMTB set at 5/3 95nm 600w and...

On the contrary those that engage with suggestions have no idea of the skill sets of someone posting and offer suggestions and advice probably mostly based on their own experiences. You asked for advice on armour to protect your ribs yet reject plenty of advice about minimizing the risk in the...

So in those circustances are you seated with the dropper fully up? If so that is an accident waiting to happen. If up on the pedals with dropper slammed you are far less likely to come to grief.

UA first layers are wicking

Depends how many teeth you are prepared to loose especially if not eearing a full face helmet.

AS a Whyte fan I was disappointed by the video. It was all about doing a time trial rather than a review of the bike. The climbs were easy and the downhill sections steep enough to need no pedalling so the motor was only helping himbdo the recovery climbs a bit faster.. I had the Whyte E180x...

The rib cage is purposefully designed as flexible in order to allow expansion of our lungs as we breath. Most of our ribs are only connected with cartilage. Whilst a focused impact can snap a rib, most impacts damage the cartilage......often more painful! The instinctive action of putting an...

Virtually all "soft" armour provides little or no protection for the rib cage. Armour prioritises neck/spine and upper chest, and is reasonable effective wherever there is firm bone structure such as shoulders and hips because the high impact foam needs a hard background in order to at least...

I would say a lot depends on the type of riding you want to do......the gen 3 Expert will better equipped. The gen 3 has the benefit of being on the market for 3+ years of development. It is however still a 90nm bike whilst the gen 4 has had the recent power increases........you may view that as...

Hit a nerve? Seems to be the modern propensity to assume anyone expressing a judgement a bout a person or product, is being predudicial...............ie to pre judge without evidence. So just to clarify, I was not pre judge anything or anyone. The facts a bout increased power are all well known...

Does not say a lot for all those buying their kit...does it😂😂

I sympathise ...but it really means you are pleading a very special case. I am pretty sure the rationale behind the power war not to support folk managing health conditions.

Yes a bit more yes, a bit more power helps but 100nm with 600 watts is all I need and I am not the strongest or fitest rider out there at 75 years old! If more power than that makes a tech climb easy I question the point of doing the climb. At those power levels above I still need good...

For me all of the latest developments paint a bigger picture. I dont think many would argue that something around 100 nm and 600 watts is the sweet spot for performance , range and reliability....so not far off Bosch/Brose motors years back. So why the popularity of the power war? I think it...