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I thought of jumping in and buying one and then I thought wait until you know whether - like so many now, it is locked in to Canbus hell and becomes a heap of scrap as soon as the battery fails and repair is uneconomical. But if you report that it is an open system, and not a bad deal, I will...

If you think about it, why do we still allow people to buy matches, smoke in their houses, make chips in a chip pan, or God forbid - have an open fire or a wood burner? Where is the line The state is not my nanny. I am responsible for what I do, and if I mess up and harm myself, it is nobody's...

Well the product was removed from sale and that should solve the problem. Do we know of disasters caused by the product? Part of my attitude to this issue is the impact on small, hard working and dedicated one man band e-bike converters like the one who converted my bike and made the battery...

I wonder if the motor and battery have that Canbus stuff on them which will make it junk s soon as it has had a couple of years of use. To be fair with a year's guarantee, there are plenty of people who need a ride to work bike who would be happy to get another one in two years time. EDIT...

It is about the price of a battery.

Apart from the volatile cathode and electrolyte made of organic solvents which burn, the separator which runs right through the many turns of the swiss roll construction is made of plastic that breaks down at about 130 C leading to a dead short throughout the battery cell with the release of...

I am sure that is true. I have an eighty foot ash tree right outside my back door. It is just beginning to show signs of ash die back - at least there are a couple of small branches that look a bit sick. Most of the tree looks in its prime, but it is going to cost me a fortune to take down...

People might need to declare an interest here. I mean people who would have less competition and more profit if what they advocate came about.

Have a care up there. Tree surgery is a very dangerous job and in my opinion, a young man's game.

We used to have them everywhere and then we started worrying about draughts and windows you could actually climb out of started disappearing.

Shame on you! :) To be fair, I have a double sixteen foot ladder I still use occasionally, but I am far more cautious now. I am quite fit, but I know I am a lot less agile than I was forty years ago. When I go up to any height these days, I stop and remember Roy Hudd falling off his roof while...

Quite right. Part of my motivation to explore electric bikes was to plan for the future, where one does not know because of advanced age or other matters, driving might not be permitted. Meddling with my ability to replace bits of my assisted bike, is not going to be well received by me. I...

You haven't thought this through. How would a person even like saneagle who has a lot of knowledge actually PROVE that he was competent? It would involve going to some numpty ebike course and following the directions of some useless wretch who had far less knowledge and no dout paying a few...

Don't mess with this stuff. Just eat Pie and chips.

The numbers are tiny in comparison to the number of battery devices.

More absolute restrictive garbage that will have no effect on the scum who are steeling from people's. Why not just capture the riff raff and put them in cages? What next - banning shoes because robbers wore them and ran away faster with them than without? This stuff happens because namby...

No. The Labour Party are about to bring in ridiculous restrictive legislation that will probably end the world of ebike kits, mean that you have to buy a £600 battery from Bosch or just pedal with your own power, and will not prevent fires because the majority of them are caused by out and out...

I'd be interested in how you get on with leaving it on a balance charge. Please make sure to let us know what happens. It might help other people to know what happens. I would think that if it does balance you would see voltage close to or equal to 42 volts on that battery.

Try what Saneagle said just now. He has a lot of experience.

I don't think it is that tricky as long as you have a meter and some common sense about handling the battery with the cover off. You obviously have that if you managed to replace cells. Did you replace entire groups of just individual cells you had suspicions about? The only problem about using...