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  1. #5641
    Join Date: Apr 2012

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    That Raleigh Sprite looks great, those Sturmey Archer hubs are a work of art!

    I did a bit of work on mine yesterday. It's a bit cold out there for me though. At least I managed to free and remove the frozen handlebar stem after an hour of oiling and heaving, that was really bugging me. Need to dig out the crank tool now so I can finish stripping the frame.
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    Join Date: Feb 2013

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    my first big bike had a sturmy internal rear hub 3 speed from a trigger on handlebar. my big racer i got next was an external 5 speed triggered from frame. think you had to back pedal with one, although that might be wrong lol
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

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  3. #5643
    Join Date: Apr 2012

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    There's few hub geared bikes fitted with derailieur gears as well, sounds a handy idea.

    Here's a Brompton 3+2.

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    Join Date: May 2008

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    The internal 3 speed is brilliant , My back no longer allows me to bike ride , It plays Hell with my sciatic nerve.
    I get the dancing chain bikes if your a bicycle racer and need to keep a cadence over different grades and inclines.
    But for daily reliability ,just getting from point A to B with out much trouble or maintenance give me a internal 3 speed.
    First off, you have to spend some money to get a good derailer that wont jump the chain off , slip with out engaging or skip gears.
    They put a lot more ware and tare on the chain and you are back to adjusting cables and derailers as everything needs readjusting with in months regular riding.
    The old 3 speed just needs a few drops of 20W oil in the hub and a few on the chain and off you go.
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  5. #5645
    Join Date: Apr 2012

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    Did more today. The blasted crank extractor thread stripped and heat, hammering and levering wouldn't shift the right crank so I cut it off. Got another set to try on there now. Frame and forks totally bare now and I just need to figure out what colour to spray it.
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  6. #5646
    Join Date: Feb 2010

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    With sub zero temperatures overnight, charging EVs seems to be less effective. Normally a four hour charging session bumps up the stored charge by around 25% of the total capacity - cost around £2.80 on the cheap off peak tariff.
    Now it seems to be giving less than that and I'm having trouble keeping the Tesla M3 charged up. An added factor is that when running it uses more energy for heating and maybe other aspects of its operation.

    Another stupid thing about the charging is the way to set the start and end time for the charge. The only way I've found to do it from inside the car is by setting the start time, then adjusting the percentage on a diagram, which is really tricky.
    Why on earth didn't the designers just use numbers, either for the percentage or for times.? Really poor design. OK - may not matter too much you'll think, but I noticed that a small discrepancy in the "on" time of say 5 minutes for the end of the off peak period can lead to the equivalent of an hours peak time tariff being used up. That's around £1.60 - not good. OTOH, set the time or percentage too low, and although the costs will be kept down, the car won't have as much energy stored, so it will take several overnight off-peak sessions to top it up to a usable/useful level.

    A useful feature is the ability to be able to put the heating on using a smartphone to defrost the car. However here again there is a gotcha. If the car is plugged in, which Tesla recommend, then perhaps the heating up will use up electricity at peak tariff, whereas if there is enough charge in the batteries, then unplugging the car will simply heat the car using some of the charge injected at lower cost overnight in the off peak charging period. As long as the defrosting is not left on too long, this doesn't reduce the range too much.
    The Tesla M3 is not immune to icing up, and it can be almost impossible to open the door at sub zero temperatures, so being able to heat it up remotely using a smartphone is helpful. Note also though, that if the car is still plugged in - which is quite likely - that will also perhaps kick in the issue about the tariffs mentioned above. If this is a concern, which it may be - perhaps should be - then try to disconnect the cable as soon as it's possible to open the door.

    I'm not sure whether it's possible to defrost Zoe from outside. It may be - so I'll check. Unfortunately Zoe also has different poor design features. We have to run the charge down quite a long way to avoid it overcharging over night, which reduces the braking efficiency noticeably.
    Dave

  7. #5647
    Join Date: Feb 2013

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    the kona is only getting charged at 3.6kw from the wall charger due to some old cables needing replaced, so is fairly slow but i still got an estimated total of 319 miles at 100%. car is still connected to it so a warmup from the sofa will come from grid, or be replenished that way. obviously you lose a lot if the heating is on, and in these temps you need it. heated wheel and seats come from the small 12v battery, which is then replenished from the traction battery every day.
    overall ive been very impressed by the car so far.
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

  8. #5648
    Join Date: Apr 2012

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    Adjust the points and clean the plugs, it'll ne right as rain!
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  9. #5649
    Join Date: Feb 2010

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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    the kona is only getting charged at 3.6kw from the wall charger due to some old cables needing replaced, so is fairly slow but i still got an estimated total of 319 miles at 100%. car is still connected to it so a warmup from the sofa will come from grid, or be replenished that way. obviously you lose a lot if the heating is on, and in these temps you need it. heated wheel and seats come from the small 12v battery, which is then replenished from the traction battery every day.
    overall ive been very impressed by the car so far.
    We couldn't normally cope with slow chargers, either because of time considerations, or cost ones. The M3 can usually be pushed up to around 80% in 2 or 3 overnight charges. Zoe is quicker, and the issue with that one is to not overcharge it. We try to run the M3 between 40% to 80%, and hardly ever push on to 100%. If we have a long trip and know there are chargers on the way then I charge to 90% before starting, though recently we went to Skye and I tried to do the complete round trip without any additional charging, so broke my own rule, and charged up to 100% before setting off. That was slightly unnerving, and we wondered if we were were going to run out of charge, so hooked up to a slow charger outside a pub - but it was tediously slow and didn't make much difference. In the end we got back easily, with maybe 20-30% left, but I really try to keep the charge in the central range to try to minimise long term battery problems. On a previous trip the hotel we use allowed us to connect our slow charger to get a top up over night, and that worked really quite well. If we go again I'll probably take that option again, as our attempts to get a top up in Kyle failed. We were able to connect to a charger, but quite why our charge card didn't work I have no idea. Perhaps we do need to check that out again, for future occasions. However we have had better luck in the past going east, with one good hotel not far from Aberdeen having really quite fast chargers free of charge for guests.

    Are there any chargers which just work with regular credit cards, or are most of them linked to some sort of charging system? I think there are ones in England which simply work with normal CCs.
    Dave

  10. #5650
    Join Date: Feb 2013

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    Takes about 7, hrs to do 30% I guess at that output. I joined charge Scotland at time but so far a year in I've not have to charge anywhere bar home
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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