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• Dolan Pre-Cursa Aluminium Track 52cm. £400

  in Complete bikes and frame & forks • 2 weeks, 3 days

  

  This Dolan Pre-Cursa was bought in 2019 after I passed my track accreditation at the Chris Hoy velodrome in Glasgow. It has one been used for drop-in track indoor sessions and has never been raced. Subsequent life changes means I am no longer able to do this so it has to go.

  Specifications as follows:
  Aluminium frame 52cm seat tube (CTT) and 54cm top tube (CTC).
  Components include:
  Alpina forks and chainset, 170mm cranks and 50T chainwheel
  Selle Italia saddle
  Look Leo pedals
  Deda bars (38cm) and stem (110mm)
  Miche Pistard wheels with 15T sprocket and Vittoria Zaffiro Slick eyes 700c x 23c

  There are a few scuffs from normal use but otherwise the bike is in great condition. The current Pre-Cursa would cost £700, not including pedals. Ideal for someone wanting to start track riding at low cost, and not too tall (I'm 170cm - 5'7" and it fits me)

  Bike is available for collection in Edinburgh.

  I may be prepared to post it but contact me first.

• Battery danger: Read this if you have an e-bike or e-scooter

  in General • 2 months, 1 week

  

  We know the difference between legit e-bikes and home made e-motorcycles but most people don’t. Journalists could make more effort to make that distinction but most can’t be bothered.

• Battery danger: Read this if you have an e-bike or e-scooter

  in General • 2 months, 1 week

  

  I agree that it’s a problem but articles like these feed into anti cycling paranoia for what is, statistically a small problem.

  It leads to panic measures like Waverley station in Edinburgh banning the parking of e-bikes in the station, not charging, just parking.

• Battery danger: Read this if you have an e-bike or e-scooter

  in General • 2 months, 1 week

  

  “ 235 e-bike fires were reported in the UK, over the past two years”

  Is this a big number? How does it compare with other causes of fire? Are these all fires or just in houses? How many e-bikes are there in the uk? How many of these were conversions?

  I’m sure there are more questions one could ask. It’s very easy to focus on one tradegy and ignore the wider picture.

• Battery danger: Read this if you have an e-bike or e-scooter

  in General • 2 months, 1 week

  

  eBay are just covering their own arses with this. I’m sure there are lots of perfectly safe second hand e-bikes on eBay as well as dodgy ones but it’s clearly too much trouble for them.

• Battery danger: Read this if you have an e-bike or e-scooter

  in General • 2 months, 2 weeks

  

  Probably because when a car goes on fire, people generally aren’t hurt so it’s not news whilst bike/scooter battery fires occur indoors, people have died and that’s news.

  That was the fairly obvious answer.

• Paris

  in General • 2 months, 4 weeks

  

  Part of the problem is that the U.K. has never had a consistent transport policy. Cycling infrastructure is basically down to local councils and one doesn’t agree (eg Kensington and Chelsea) then that causes problems.

• Paris

  in General • 2 months, 4 weeks

  

  Too right they are. British local councils just haven't got the balls and are too afraid of the car lobby to do anything too radical. And the last government didn't exactly help. Its too early to say what labour will do but the transport minister's appearance on the Streets Ahead podcast was a hopeful sign that things can change.

• Paris

  in General • 3 months

  

  I guess that the massive increase in cycling recently has encouraged many people to get their classic steeds back on the road.