bicycle
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First rides in the wet with Pinion and carbon belt
With the weather turning wet I had my first couple of commutes in the rain on my new bike with Pinion gears and a carbon belt. On my previous bike a ride in such conditions would mean cleaning and greasing the chain again or suffering a screeching chain on the next ride with a loss…
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All Weather Rocket
End of last week my Stromer ST3 Pinion Edition arrived. I had hoped to get the fancy red launch edition but had to settle for a black one in the end. From far away it looks a little common in black. Common is not exactly the word I was looking for but one way or…
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Cannondale Contro-E Speed Retirement
After roughly 8000 commuting kilometers I have ‘retired’ my Contro-E Speed today. You can read a short review in Dutch here. When I bought it back in 2016 it was a ‘trade in’ for my motorbike. I got rid of my unsafe motorbike and got an equally unsafe speed pedelec instead. Of course, going fast…
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Koga Signature (aka Newtonian Motion)
About 20 years ago I bought myself a Koga Signature. I was working in The Netherlands at the time and the government still subsidised the purchase of bicycles. You could trade in some of your vacation days for money to buy a bike. I cannot remember the exact amount you could trade in but as…