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13,144 Mile 6 Year Update continued Battery: Cutmill pond that I pass on my ride to work in June 2020 When I first bought this bike my concern was the cost of replacing the battery when it wore out as they were very expensive. However I am still using the original 400Wh battery at the end of...

13,144 Mile 6 Year Update A leisure ride I did in April 2020 in lock down Gosh another year of cycle commuting completed. I have to say that I have had as much fun riding my bike cross country to work and back home again on the road this year as any. I guess we have all had a strange...

The Haibikes 6th Birthday imminently approaches....... I rode The Haibike to work today and that will probably be my last ride before I head into the beginning of my 7th year of ownership. A very nice blustery windy mostly sunny ride. If that was my last ride, I have ridden 1,326 miles to...

Road to work off road again today, and using my new method of riding effectively in a circle so that the whole bike is on the pad does trigger the gates.

Getting more miles out of my cassette..... My Haibike does 14 miles to work cross country getting my transmission dirty, and then I ride 10 miles home on the road. My faster ride home using higher assist levels with a dirty chain and cassette a lot of the time in my highest gear 9 that has 12...

Although it will not probably be lighter, an older simple rear hub motored ebike with a simple cadence system and unrestricted throttle could be ideal. I bought a second hand Oxygen emate of circa 2011 vintage from the classified section of pedelecs very cheaply and have been amazed how good...

I agree WheezyRider and am lucky enough to be able to charge at work. The Haibike despite only having a 400Wh 6 year old battery can quite easily still complete the 24 mile round trip if required, but as I can charge my battery at work I do so and top it back to full before my ride home. The...

I agree vfr, commuting to work and back is different to leisure riding. I have days, a few more of those as I get nearer to 60, that I do not want to work as hard riding home as I once did, and have started turning the assist level up on The Haibike, something I have only done very recently, and...

I had asthma as a child and never realised it! I was a keen sportsman, playing in most of the school teams and naturally a quick runner winning the School Town (Basingstoke) trails 100m race for a couple of years on the trot and then running in the Hampshire County Trails at Southampton in the...

I ride either a 20 mile on road round trip commute to work and back on my old 2011 Oxygen second hand Emate rear hub cadence road bike that came with rudimentary lights, mudguards and a rear rack, or a 24 mile round trip on my Haibike Yamaha crank drive hard tail mountain bike, where the 14...

Well I have to say I approached the weight sensor on my ride to work today with some trepidation. I rode onto it at an angle that allowed the whole bike to bear down. there was a satisfying audible click and the gates swung open. Unfortunately I passed a sour faced old bloke who I am sure is a...

NIMBI Retirement Development Escalation This is what I wrote in June last year. "This is part of the section of my off road route (avoiding a parallel dangerous rat run section of country lane) I would miss out on if I was put off by the retirement complex Nimbies and the two gates and...

17,000 miles is good going. I have a 2011 Oxygen Emate that could have done that mileage or probably more but I cannot be sure as there is no mileage recorder. Like yours it is a bit of a Trigger's broom as it is on it third motor wheel, and third battery. The first motor wheel was free under...

This might be the sort of battery that could replace the one that does not work. Obviously check your fittings and style of battery match. I bought one for an old Oxygen Emate City which has a silver fish battery that fits behind the seat and have found it to be good and still working after 3...

https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m5b0s74p3680/ORTLIEB-Back-Roller-Classic

I have the Ortlieb Classic Roll Backs and find them brilliant. They have quite a lot of adjustment to fit different styles of rack, but ideally you would want to make sure they do. I found Spa cycles mail order very good and they sell them at a more competative price than most..

I wonder if the extra grunt you are feeling in eco will mean less range?

Four Early Shift return rides to work, and another 80 miles ridden on my £100 second hand electric bike. It had warmed up after the big freeze, so I was riding to work with a thin lined waterproof and windproof jacket but no windproof trousers needed and simple cheap wool style gloves as...

I have a Yamaha lcd display on my Haibike hard tail mountain bike that I bought in 2015. I had no issues with fogging until I needed to change the batteries. On my display you do this by taking it off the bike and removing a circular access plug on the underneath to gain access to the battery...

My £100 Emate and I had a close shave on the way home from work today. I was literally about 100 yards from my house after my 10 mile ride home when a car started to pull out on me from a side road as I was almost on it. Looked like a young student girl. Fortunately she saw me at the last...