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The best upgrade I have made to my Shimano E5000 puny 40Nm mid-drive bike is swapping 9 speed 11-36 for 11 speed 11-51. 40% lower bottom gear makes easy work of up to 20% fully laden (150kg), 25% travelling light. My chainwheel is 38T, your 44T will keep your top speed unchanged whilst still...

Looks interesting and not too difficult. Should ride fine straight out of the box without changing anything, but can be tweaked quite a lot. I would just get some miles on the clock, analyse how you would like it to be different, and if the Fazua website and the video @Guernsey linked above...

Not wishing to be too discouraging, but there is no right place on this forum for that question. The web in general will give you answers, as will other forums, but the focus here is EN15194, 25kph, 250W. 30mph is so severely beyond the legal boundary, it is not an edge case just about worthy...

If it is capable of running some of the time then it is capable of running all of the time. No diagnostic codes suggests not motor and not battery. I suspect intermittent imperfect contact on one of the small wires between display and rest of system. On my admittedly Shimano setup, I have...

G Goodness me! I'm clearly well behind the times! I don't have much of answer to that. Thanking my lucky stars once again for living north of the Arctic crime circle.

If work is a big company, then get on to the Sustainable Travel Plan director, and get secure bike storage with charging facilities installed.

From a UK bike shop seller, not aliblabla, would be a positive for me. I keep a lookout for sale prices on chains, and my stack of spare 11 speed SRAM and 9 speed KMC all at £5.99 reaches the ceiling.

Chains wear rather than stretch, so with good lubrication and cleaning it might not be too much behind the KMC. It would have to use substandard steel grade and wrong heat treatment to be completely useless, which is probably not worth the bother! Chunky 7 speed unbranded unfussy item. I would...

I look forward to your early experiences writeup!

Just be careful the battery is sufficiently attached....those two water bottle mounting bolts were not designed for 3 or 4 or 5kg of load. One or two extra bolts gives peace of mind.

You are totally wrong, but that's not any fault of your logic, just that where the law has ended up is not amenable to logic! A motor is only legal for EAPC use if it's manufacturer has done certain things relating to testing, certification and labelling. The real world max power is irrelevant...

Often the effort is not the limiting factor, it is the time the journey takes. 15 miles of riding will be slightly over an hour, if all road, probably a bit more along the canal path as they tend to be less than smooth!

Good luck with whatever you do, and please don't take offence at the various contributors mentioning the legal aspects. This forum is essentially for UK legal pedelecs, rather than electric two wheeled transport more generally. Keeping that focus is important, but sometimes difficult to do...

You'll need to decide up front if the bike will go on the train regularly. If not, then no need to overthink it, any generic hub motor bike will do the job. I'm not clear on the commute details: if there is 5 miles walking each way in 75 minutes using train, then there can't be much train...

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Translation: "I am interested in everything to do with electric bikes" and then it gets harder. Something about buying a kit from Del Boy?

If you ride within the same actual power range as top end Bosch etc then there is no need for the battery spec you asked about. If you run at 48V, a large standard off the shelf generic battery is likely to be fine e.g. 21700 4S 17.5 or 19.2Ah with Samsung or Panadonic cells. PSPPOWER would have...

Aside from the legality aspects and muddying the waters for we law abiding riders, why do you feel the need to have so much power? It really does not have any advantages over a good legal mtb or road bike.