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A dog is one of the best theft deterrents - even a small dog that barks at strange noises.

Hi Wombat, there's quite a few of us ~60yo riders here - ebikes are a great invention for those of us not in race-fit shape. I don't go to bike parks much either, mainly because my dog tags along on 4WD tracks. My wife and I ride sedate tracks on weekends but during the week I ride mountainous...

Focus forayed into Shimano powered bikes with the 2022 Jam but they've switched back to Bosch for 2023. I prefer our Bosch CX Cube for very steep mountainous terrain but I do like my EP8 powered Rise as a general purpose trail bike (has the 85nm EP8 software). The EP801 has higher peak power...

I foresee at least 2 more emtb purchases. Welcome and we need bike pics :)

Are the police too busy in England to deal with lesser crimes?

That really sucks. Good to report it on the forum though - might help find it and certainly prompts the rest of us to be more careful.

Nice looking bike and riding terrain.

It does seem like the UK is worse, but even here in Australia you can go 30 years without being hit or your place can be burgled twice in the same week, you just never know. My security has been beefed up as a result of reading this forum - bike chained to floor, garage locked, no tools in the...

Details of how the bike was secured and how it was stolen help others to update their own security practices. Terrible to see such a nice bike stolen.

If you're only a little over the limit on a metal frame and riding conservatively you should be fine, then after a few months you'll be under the weight limit :)