Recent content by cyclebuddy

I saw one chained to a bike-rack in town last week. It's been discussed here before so I had a closer look. I thought it looked pretty respectable for a sub-£1000 e-bike. As already mentioned though, you need to consider what you do if/when it goes wrong. I don't know anything about how Eleglide...

That's conventional electricians logic... A standard UK ring main today is wired with 16A 2.5mm copper PVC insulated, fused at 32A. In the 1960's/70's there was a period where the UK wired that same circuit with 1.5mm copper MINERAL insulation and still fused at 32A. In other words, a 1.5mm...

If you can't wake it, I doubt it's worth bothering wasting too much time on it when you can buy a brand new replacement with perky cells for about £150 from Yose (it's this one I think). It's higher capacity at 10.4Ah against your worn 8.6Ah too. It depends how you value/measure the worth of...

Any competent car body shop can mix any colour you like to a 100% perfect match even allowing for colour fade through age. You won't get it in an aerosol though (and that's a bad idea anyway 'cos a metallic will look as flat as a fart unless it's a two-coat and properly baked/cured), and...

It seems we're all qualified electricians here... you're applying the rules of domestic 240v AC installation to what is, in electricians speak, a low-voltage SELV DC application. Those BS7671 rules don't apply here. Even so, as you already know, fuses trip at different speeds, and these wires...

It looks to me as if the Torque Sensor has been broken off when the chain came off. Good news is that it's a Suntour part, not specific to Raleigh. Spares are available on ebay here in the UK - you'd need to check your own US sources. Google "Suntour HESC Torque Sensor" and you should find the...

But the Police would need just cause... either they measured the rider at an above acceptable speed, strongly suspected that, was riding in a pedestrian only precinct/on pavement, or he was riding like a total lunatic and putting others at risk. It'd be odd to just randomly stop someone who was...

Yes, but you need to draw a line in the sand somewhere. 1.5mph over the limit is as illegal as 28mph. A standard needs to be enforced however trivial it may seem; If even 1.5mph can land you in trouble with the law, maybe that clamp-down and publicity provides a warning to the...

It very much depends on the year of manufacture. Early ones were made in China, later ones in different countries and were equipped with different batteries from different manufacturers. As Neal mentions, there's a sleep mode to save depletion when not being used. How you wake up the battery...

What current limit are you running your BBS at? I know you also have "keep current" at 100% which for me (having tried) is too much/wasteful, and kill these current batteries in no time. IIRC mine's about 40% (I need to check) but that's fine for me. What battery capacity/cells/current settings...

Thanks everyone for your inputs... all comments appreciated. The bike is in Norfolk (and I'm not at the moment), but next opportunity I have I'm going to link my bike back up to the Speeed App to re-check what the "current" (i.e. Amps) setting is and what that limit can be. IIRC, it had been...

I don't know what the existing batteries weigh, but labouring under the misapprehension that a larger capacity battery might weigh a notable amount more, I didn't really want to permanently saddle this bike with that extra weight for my shorter/sub-25-mile rides. But 25-mile rides are quite...

Ah, I stand corrected... 26F then,,, it's been 4 years since I opened one of the packs. 18650 pinkies though. I guess one battery of higher (double) capacity will logically be the best route to take.

I hear you. But this bike is for good weather touring on Norfolk back roads. I do have a rack on another e-bike for commuting, but don't want a rack, panniers or mudguards etc - i.e. excess weight - on this one for the specific purpose this particular bike is being used for... it's dry weather...

So, one of my e-bikes is powered by a 350w Bafang MaxDrive motor. It came with a 374Wh 10.4 Ah Samsung 29E Pinky celled battery pack which, then, was a respectable if mediocre cell... I bought a second at the same time which the dealer was keen to clear at £150... that was IIRC 2019? Anyway...