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    Hello everyone. Retired teacher her

    There's nothing wrong with Suntour motors. It's the control system and other parts that let the bikes down. You shouldn't be worried about brands at this point. You have two simple choices. Firstly, you can buy a universal Chinese type bike and fix it yourself without worrying about warranty...
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    For Christ's sake, did you not look at who's funding those trials? We already know that the BBC is corrupt as hell and just a propaganda and misinformation machine. When the biggest investors and shareholders in the vaccine fund a trial, what do you think the conclusion is going to be?
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    Help! Newbie to battery packs and BMS could do with some advice please!

    For any battery related problems, you start by fully charging, then check the pack voltage hot off the charger. Anything significantly less than than 29.4v, you check the individual cell voltages. Next you run the battery until you get the problem and recheck the cell voltages. It also helps a...
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    Motor not engaging? Please Help.

    Lift the wheel off the ground and get the motor whirring. See which way the wheel starts to rotate. There should be enough friction in whatever is slipping to drive it in one direction or the other. If it's forwards, your clutch or gears are where to look. If it's backwards, it's your controller.
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    Newbie considering an e-conversion. But what.

    That's not true at all. There is no limit on output power for ebikes in the UK. It's a myth based on a misunderstanding of the rules. The standard specifies that the motor must be "rated" at no more than 250w. How much power you put through it is up to you, and there is no rule as to how the...
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    Newbie considering an e-conversion. But what.

    When you use a KT controller, you can have a legal throttle. Throttles are legal, but there are some restrictions on how they control the bike. The two rules are: 1. It can work independently to 6km/h to launch you from start. 2. It can be used to control the speed and power at all speeds up to...
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    Some light reading for you. I would have thought, as a GP, you'd know about this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329060/ https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/209/suppl_3/S79/2192876
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    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    You have to understand how your imune system deals with new viruses, which it gets very frequently. It's like locks and keys. Your imune system needs a key that fits the lock to unlock it and eliminate it. Some locks are very complicated and others are simple, so just like a locksmith, the easy...
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    Help! Newbie to battery packs and BMS could do with some advice please!

    Can you let us know what designation is written on the cells?
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    E10 error on my new ebike

    You just wasted your money. All you need is a normal multimeter, which will be much more useful and versatile than that thing. I have three of those testers, and I think I used one once in more than 10 years of working on ebikes.
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    E10 error on my new ebike

    It sounds like either you had some bad advice or you didn't understand it or you you didn't recognise that advice only applies to some circumstances and can have bad consequeces in others. For some sensored motors and their associated controllers, you can change their direction, but not by any...
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    Motor not engaging? Please Help.

    When you say that "the motor sounds like it's engaging", what do you mean. If the motor is whirring, then either it's running backwards or the clutch has stuck. There are other potential causes, which would only happen under load. We need to know the background. How did it stop working? Was it...
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    Help! Battery and controller issue on Carrera vengeance

    The number of lights and pattern of flashing give a clue to what's wrong. It's detailed in the manual, which Halfords are obliged by law to give you at the time of purchase.
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    That LiitoKala battery, first use (maybe a thread to keep logging range)

    Even the human brain, one of the most powerful computers in the world, can't figure it out on its own.
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    Pedelec Law - The Details

    Contrary to what the others have said, the answer could be actually yes, depending on what you mean by exclusively and what you mean by propel. One could argue that the answer is no on the basis that a throttle can't propel anything. All the throttle does is regulate the speed. It's an input...
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    That LiitoKala battery, first use (maybe a thread to keep logging range)

    It has a bit more intelligence, but it can never know where you're going to ride, when one hill can take 20% from the battery.
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    electric bike charger

    Its a spambot!
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    Hello

    Welcome to the forum.
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    Disaster

    You didn't answer the question.
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    Is this a new form of marketing???

    I used to use a magnifying glass for focusing on my target audience. It was much more effective than the direct influence of several personalities. The poor ants really used crackle as the death ray did its thing. I feel sort of sorry for them now. I don't think I could do it anymore, but if I...