Why bother with leathers?

[oldrider]

Filling up the car for the week ahead this afternoon I notice it's gone up again - $2.33 a liter for 95 I may need to park up the XR6 soon and take the lads wee 1986 Ford Laser - it's cheaper to run.

On that subject, I sat in the passenger seat some weeks back while my daughter drove back to Dunedin. She has a 1999 Toyota Corolla 1.8 auto. Darn thing got smack on 6.0 l per 100 kms on that trip.

Obviously mainly due to her driving ability - well done.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Someone I know recently imported a 1kw hub/wheel assembly, battery, controller and instrument display through AliExpress. Cost just over NZ1,000 inc freight. He's put it in his old mountain bike. How is officialdom going to deal with this? Short of stopping all imports, I can't see how it can be controlled.

I've been looking very carefully at them myself. I have a decent commuter bike and have been going down the mid-drive Bafang BB02 route with a 48V battery.... yes it will be more than 300W, and no I'm not too stressed about it.

Drove my first electric car a couple weeks back too. It was great. Perfect as a town car... so much so that I am seriously considering one.

[Blackbird]

I've been looking very carefully at them myself. I have a decent commuter bike and have been going down the mid-drive Bafang BB02 route with a 48V battery.... yes it will be more than 300W, and no I'm not too stressed about it.

Drove my first electric car a couple weeks back too. It was great. Perfect as a town car... so much so that I am seriously considering one.

Cool! My mate said that he got a peak top speed of 45 km/hr on the flat from his yesterday. It would hardly attract unwanted attention, especially where we live 😁.

At the last IAM conference, I got to ride a Scott electric pedal-assist bike which was really impressive. Also drove a Nissan Leaf and the Renault equivalent. It was the torque off the line which impressed the heck out of me. One of the Wellington members has a Tesla. It's hellishly expensive but has serious performance and range, despite the odd bit of adverse press.

[nzspokes]

As a side note, Ebikes over 300w seem to not be able to be insured. And a bit touch and go on lower powered ones.

[WALRUS]

Personally, if I was overtaking traffic on the hard shoulder/in the same lane, on the downhill.. I'd definitely want leathers.. Well, anything more than some lycra and a polystyrene skull-cap. I've got no beef with cyclists, most of the ones down here are alright at sharing the road and being reasonable, but far-out, I wouldn't go on the road, in traffic, in the stupid silly thin 'gear' they wear!

THIS is more like it..

[Big Dog]

Personally, if I was overtaking traffic on the hard shoulder/in the same lane, on the downhill.. I'd definitely want leathers.. Well, anything more than some lycra and a polystyrene skull-cap. I've got no beef with cyclists, most of the ones down here are alright at sharing the road and being reasonable, but far-out, I wouldn't go on the road, in traffic, in the stupid silly thin 'gear' they wear!

THIS is more like it..

As a dare I once rode a race pushy at full tilt (for much fitter 20 yo me). Even without the other protection that's about as close to heat exhaustion as I ever want to get.