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When you ride, you are applying turning force to the front wheel. Put a motor there and you apply even more turning force there. The purpose of a motor is to allow you to go along without pedalling hard. Put the motor at the back, and when you pedal less hard there is less turning force at...

Congrats on going a bloody long way. The bottle-cage thing will come. Take three, then you can juggle with them.

Next time I will pull it round something. Maybe I should make the wax softer, or put moly in it. Somewhere on the internet someone said that the Yaban Ti chain has hardly any Ti in it, because Ti is really light, but this chain weighs the same as a Sram one. Or something. Does wax weigh more...

The latter, I think. Somewhere on this forum a long time ago there was a discussion about sear-pushing and bar-pulling. If you push the seat, your guts acts like a Ventisit and absorbs a load of energy, but if you pull the bars your arms can stay rigid and not recoil or deform or whatever they...

Good advice, even if your bike is Reynolds 531.

I did it. On both my bikes. I used ordinary candle wax. Someone said that candle wax is brittle so you should dilute it with paraffin oil to make it softer. I did not have any of that, so I put in a load of vaseline. I followed the chain cleaning instructions on the Molten website and tried...

My Silvio's custom (that means home-made) mudguards are a bit tight, so when the bike suddenly started making a new noise I thought it was something rubbing in there, as usual. So, as I was coming to a descent where I usually get 30mph I decided to keep going and stop a bit further on. The...

I got rained on. By rain that had already fallen. Huge puddle in the road. Hardly any water on my side of the road, all on the other side. Oncoming car did not slow down, hit puddle, puddle went up in the air, puddle came down all over me, car drove on. Was that person demonstrating how to...

Udders up? That is the correct position when riding a 'bent.

My Silvio has a repertoire of creaks and clicks. It does some on some days and others on other days. It always has.

Next generation, Carbon, Ti, shut up, shut up, SHUT UP! I hate this thread.

Everyone's an engineer in Kenya. Road surface looks really good. Better than in Britain.

Chop the cranks or get cranks that are short in the first place from a company called Redline BMX. They fit in the Silvio2 BB shell.

How fast are you going in that situation? What is your lowest gear?

The way to challenge Larry is to jump out of an aeroplane. Long steep descent, but hard to avoid the dangerous bit at the end.

Would that it were so.

I have them on my Grasshopper. I feel the bumps a bit more, even though the bike has springs at both ends. The steering feels a twitchy. I keep worrying about skidding.

Waddyamean better shape? You are already faster than me.

I do not know if this is any use, but you can see the gaps between the two halves of the clamp. Maybe we should have told you all this before... Now you know how to fix your new slider.

So you can cope with wheel slip. More progress.