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Terrible thing, however it happened. I think if my battery got hot and I could not get it out of the house, I'd chuck it in the sink and turn on the taps.

I read that some of the early BBSxx motors blew their mosfets easily and they were upgraded to more beefy ones. Were your unfortunate failures early models perhaps?

Snapped this lunatic this afternoon on my car dashcam as I came to the edge of Newcastle. These two were flying along on a shared pedestrian path with the circus performer probably doing about twenty miles an hour on an electric motorbike - unregistered of course, as is the way with these outlaws.

I don't understand that post. Maybe I am being a bit thick? :)

Maybe you should get a LiFepo4 battery. It would need to be a bit bigger, but they will never go on fire, not even when abused.

Why would a cell go into catastrophic failure if it had not been abused horribly? How often does this happen? I might be wrong, so would welcome correction, but it is my impression that the spate of ebike fires we hear so much about are almost always from cells being abused (wrong charger or...

I'm not really worried about y battery lighting up. I charge it with a 3 amp max charger and never leave it alone when it is charging. It never even gets slightly warm. If I have just been riding the bike, I leave it to settle down for about an hour before beginning to charge it, though this is...

I bought an ebay mini torch with a useful pen clip to keep it in your pocket, that claimed some vast luminescence (1.2 million Lumens).... It's not a bad pocket torch for the money - a touch over 4 quid, delivered, but it isn't a searchlight for sure.

The programming parameters of the motor often keep the actual consumption lower than the bare facts of maximum amps and nominal voltage would suggest. Keep current on the Bafang BBsxxx, when set conservatively, really reduces the continuous power expended. Even set at 80% it will not allow much...

I think that many of us are perfectly suited to what we have bought, or got used to, or learned to get on with. They are different, but we are very happy with them. It is quite good that there is choice and competition, as long as you do your research before you buy into one, or another. The...

Yes - of course. :)

Oh dear. Lets regulate stupid people instead. That way. We wont need to outlaw knives and forks, or ban matches. I REALLY hoped the new government would do well, but i do remember that the previous period of Labour government involved massive amounts of new regulation and beureaucracy. As for...

My reaction too. Mine comes on softly, gradually increasing torque over about a second or two. Perhaps Steelframe, means the unpleasant effect of changing gear while applying power. Imagine doing that in a manual car. Properly set up, power stops when you stop pedalling. Mine stops in a...

I was trying to make sense of the remark about it being Ok in the last 4-5 weeks and thinking about the weeks of northerly winds and rain and then I remembered that you don't live in this country and especially not in the northern part of it. I think I can only remember about five warmish days...

Oh - that's terrible. 25c in Telford in summer. Maybe you will end up as one of those elderly deaths that happen when the sun comes out. We should all stop using power immediately and revert to the kind of Medieval life our ancestors lived in the eleven hundreds. They lived perfectly well on...

Re heat death.... Meanwhile, we are having probably the coolest, wettest summer I can remember. And my French niece phoned the other day to ask if she could come and visit and when I warned her of the horrible summer we are having, she said it was the same in Paris - weeks of cold and wet...

Yes I am sick to the back teeth of the hysteria linked to the rising temperature. The rise in absolute terms is tiny. I do NOT deny that co2 is the cause of warming and that it should be sensibly reduced. However, journalists hype the risks ridiculously by claiming that we have two years to...

Would those be the countries which are seeing their human population exploding out of control? Ethiopia maybe? Almost forty years ago I remember Michael Buerk presenting a dreadful spectacle of horrible famine from there - a desert region on the edge of the Sahara. Back then the land could not...

OK - fine and dandy. I carry a small chain breaker and a quick link. If the chain breaks, I'd only need to remove one pin and fit the quick link to the two ends. I think that given the small power of a 250 watt Bafang, the likelihood of a chain snapping is pretty small. In my whole cycling and...

Did your BBS01 wear out or fail? Why are you getting rid of it? Just curious. I have one and like it a lot for my hilly location.