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Post by peterob on Feb 21, 2024 11:57:34 GMT
I can't remember the spec, I thought it was 95 Nm on max. In bottom gear, starting on the flat, there is virtually no pedalling resistance so the pedal goes right to the floor. The other pedal rises of course and, like a fixed wheel, if the resting leg isn't relaxed, up you go. i never saw the point of using the motor to help turn a really big gear, more for helping on hills, so I ride my Bosch motored bike in eco mode mostly. I haven't ridden it for a year. I bought a hub motor bike as a spare and have been using that. It is a gravel bike, more stable on poor surfaces and a bit lighter. I've been using that. The hub motor is much less powerful and far less help on hills but the bike is more rideable without the motor. The other bike is horrible to ride with the motor off. Mine is a pig to ride with the motor off too, as I found out when I ran it out of battery a few miles from home. Without the motor it feels like a very heavy bike and the resistance in the drive train is very noticeable. The bigger gears are for going faster. At the moment top gear and as fast as my legs can spin is about 30mph, or about 25mph at a more comfortable cadence. As I don't need 1st gear, and 2nd is still a bit shorter than I need longer gearing would suit my needs better. It would also be better if I fitted a speedbox to defeat the speed limiter (shhh  ). I tend to ride at between 10-12 mph. I don't like 25 mph or faster. The brakes go on when I am going down hill. The speed limiter on my road bike tends to cut in early (at 14.8 mph according to Garmin GPS). It is a real pain riding with the club if they pick the pace up to 16-18 mph on a flat bit because, as you say, once the limiter cuts in it is like wading through treacle. I can't keep up which confuses ride leaders. They are used to people dropping off the back on hills and will wait or slow up a lot once at the top but with an e-bike it is the other way round! I have to be careful to drop back before a hill or I run into everyone else when they slow up. The gravel bike is easier to ride above the limiter setting (25 km/h) and it is easier to match pace on the hills. The help is OK on drags/ low gradient but I haven't tried a 20% on it yet. I expect it is not a lot of help. |
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Post by Chester PB on Feb 22, 2024 18:13:34 GMT
I passed my driving test first time when I was 17, taking it is south London at 4.40 pm on a Friday evening. I recall doing an emergency stop to avoid a collision from a car emerging from a road on the left after ignoring the stop sign and whose driver was apparently not looking. When he gave me my pass certificate later, the test examiner told me that he wished all his examinees had the same sense of self preservation that I had, and admitted that he had not seen the car that would have hit his side of the car (he had been watching my use of the read-view mirror at the time).
My wife did not learn to drive until she was 30, and although she learned the hand/feet/eye coordination needed, it took her much longer to learn that she had to drive with the assumption that everybody else on the road was trying to kill her. Even after passing her test, she was wary of driving on motorways, so on such trips she was always a passenger and I would encourage her to look for cars driven by idiots. She could not anticipate impatient drivers who suddenly noticed a slow vehicle in front of them and who then pull into the next lane without indicating or apparently looking in any of their mirrors to see if that lane was clear. She could not understand how I could point out a car some way in front of us and to our left, whose driver was probably about to try and kill us, but in time she acquired this important skill.
As always, whatever the sophistication of the safety features in a car, all are pointless if the driver is 'unfit for the job'. Sadly, I suspect that some dangerous drivers can only be stopped by being in prison or the removal of body parts. |
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Post by mick on Feb 24, 2024 16:03:54 GMT
I've come to realize that I'm quite a bit better than the adaptive cruise control that I liked so much.
When you think about it the reason is blindingly obvious. It's looking one car ahead, and I'm looking at several, often many tens if the road allows. The speed decision based on one car is very frequently not the best decision for busy traffic.
It will still be useful on my late night dashes from the North to home.
Mick
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Post by andy on Feb 24, 2024 17:59:21 GMT
I've come to realize that I'm quite a bit better than the adaptive cruise control that I liked so much. When you think about it the reason is blindingly obvious. It's looking one car ahead, and I'm looking at several, often many tens if the road allows. The speed decision based on one car is very frequently not the best decision for busy traffic. It will still be useful on my late night dashes from the North to home. Mick I'd have liked adaptive cruise control for driving in slow moving traffic (almost guaranteed on the Edinburgh bypass during the day). Traffic slows and speeds up for miles and usually for no apparent reason...very tedious. |
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Post by willien on Feb 24, 2024 18:13:26 GMT
When a truck took the ar** off my parked mondeo about 12 years ago I got a Deisel Astra with all the letters after it as a courtesy car. Its trick in slow moving traffic ques was, if it thought it was going to stall, was to race the engine. Just as well I do not tail gate.
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Post by peterob on Feb 24, 2024 21:58:18 GMT
I thought of this thread when I saw this. Your new car? My car now  DSCF7170.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by willien on Feb 24, 2024 22:01:02 GMT
I thought of this thread when I saw this. Your new car? My car now DSCF7170.jpg by Pete, on Flickr Yeah...Arnie is getting older. |
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Post by mick on Feb 25, 2024 10:03:11 GMT
I've come to realize that I'm quite a bit better than the adaptive cruise control that I liked so much. When you think about it the reason is blindingly obvious. It's looking one car ahead, and I'm looking at several, often many tens if the road allows. The speed decision based on one car is very frequently not the best decision for busy traffic. It will still be useful on my late night dashes from the North to home. Mick I'd have liked adaptive cruise control for driving in slow moving traffic (almost guaranteed on the Edinburgh bypass during the day). Traffic slows and speeds up for miles and usually for no apparent reason...very tedious. Maybe I should try to explain. First I can set the radar to operate at several distances and I tend to have it at maximum range - I feel safer with a bigger gap. I won't try to deal with what happens when someone moves into 'my' gap - it seems to deal with that quite well.
Imagine that I've set the system for 70, but the traffic has slowed to 60. All fine until the car immediately in front moves out to overtake. That creates a gap longer than the radar range, and so my car tries to get back to 70. However, it soon catches up what's now the next car in front of me and slows again. If I had been in control I would have realized that, when the car in front moved away, there was little future in trying to regain 70 and would have been much more circumspect.
Hope I've been clear.
Mick
PS For Willien. Stall? Mine's an automatic so it won't stall. Shouldn't you have intervened if you were going that slowly. Also, my previous car, was a big diesel and, when appropriate, would happily chug along at 40mph in top gear at tickover.
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Post by willien on Feb 25, 2024 13:39:55 GMT
I intervened as soon as the engine surged. This was a courtesy car and the first deisel I had ever driven. I had never had that problem with any of my previous cars all manual and all happy to chug along at low speed without incident.
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Post by geoffr on Feb 25, 2024 14:13:56 GMT
When a truck took the ar** off my parked mondeo about 12 years ago I got a Deisel Astra with all the letters after it as a courtesy car. Its trick in slow moving traffic ques was, if it thought it was going to stall, was to race the engine. Just as well I do not tail gate. Several years ago I bought a Jaguar XF 2.2 D Automatic, it wasn’t what I was expecting. I won’t list its faults, sufficient to say they were many. On one occasion heading for Swanage we were driving along the A35 when the traffic unexpectedly stopped. Quite reasonably I braked hard, the engine accelerated towards the red line before returning to idle. I have no idea why it did that and it never did it again. For a premium brand vehicle it was a very poor example. I had it for 11 months and replaced it with an older, higher mileage, Saab 9-5 estate. The Saab is still running with a friend. I haven’t a clue where the Jaguar is. |
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Post by nimbus on Feb 25, 2024 18:00:34 GMT
When a truck took the ar** off my parked mondeo about 12 years ago I got a Deisel Astra with all the letters after it as a courtesy car. Its trick in slow moving traffic ques was, if it thought it was going to stall, was to race the engine. Just as well I do not tail gate. Several years ago I bought a Jaguar XF 2.2 D Automatic, it wasn’t what I was expecting. I won’t list its faults, sufficient to say they were many. On one occasion heading for Swanage we were driving along the A35 when the traffic unexpectedly stopped. Quite reasonably I braked hard, the engine accelerated towards the red line before returning to idle. I have no idea why it did that and it never did it again. For a premium brand vehicle it was a very poor example. I had it for 11 months and replaced it with an older, higher mileage, Saab 9-5 estate. The Saab is still running with a friend. I haven’t a clue where the Jaguar is. You can check the MOT to see whether the car is still on the road. I must admit I would fight shy of buying any JLR vehicle, and I have an Alfa Romeo, it's in for MOT and service tomorrow. To date I can't complain about it. |
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Post by geoffr on Feb 25, 2024 21:29:53 GMT
Several years ago I bought a Jaguar XF 2.2 D Automatic, it wasn’t what I was expecting. I won’t list its faults, sufficient to say they were many. On one occasion heading for Swanage we were driving along the A35 when the traffic unexpectedly stopped. Quite reasonably I braked hard, the engine accelerated towards the red line before returning to idle. I have no idea why it did that and it never did it again. For a premium brand vehicle it was a very poor example. I had it for 11 months and replaced it with an older, higher mileage, Saab 9-5 estate. The Saab is still running with a friend. I haven’t a clue where the Jaguar is. You can check the MOT to see whether the car is still on the road. I must admit I would fight shy of buying any JLR vehicle, and I have an Alfa Romeo, it's in for MOT and service tomorrow. To date I can't complain about it. Checking an MoT on-line requires the registration, I can’t remember what the was because for most of the time I had it my own plate was on it. Obviously I can remember that but not the original reg. |
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Post by nimbus on Feb 25, 2024 23:23:44 GMT
You can check the MOT to see whether the car is still on the road. I must admit I would fight shy of buying any JLR vehicle, and I have an Alfa Romeo, it's in for MOT and service tomorrow. To date I can't complain about it. Checking an MoT on-line requires the registration, I can’t remember what the was because for most of the time I had it my own plate was on it. Obviously I can remember that but not the original reg. I did assume you would know the registration! |
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Post by mick on Feb 26, 2024 8:17:17 GMT
I intervened as soon as the engine surged. This was a courtesy car and the first deisel I had ever driven. I had never had that problem with any of my previous cars all manual and all happy to chug along at low speed without incident. I've been driving for more than 60 years and have driven diesels for half of that time. Like you, I've never experienced such a thing. I can only think that there was some sort of fault with that vehicle.
Mick
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Post by willien on Feb 26, 2024 12:27:18 GMT
I intervened as soon as the engine surged. This was a courtesy car and the first deisel I had ever driven. I had never had that problem with any of my previous cars all manual and all happy to chug along at low speed without incident. I've been driving for more than 60 years and have driven diesels for half of that time. Like you, I've never experienced such a thing. I can only think that there was some sort of fault with that vehicle.
Mick
Yeah, it was a Vauxhal. |
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