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Godalming to Haslemere off road A really great ride with a variety of off road tracks from easy car width tracks to rooty narley technical single tracks with steep accents and descents. A beautiful track beside a lake on the way to Thursley Traversing the punchbowl still on the way to...

So in essence saneagle as my battery has weakened I have hopefully become fitter and also very experienced at managing how I ride my bike in relation to my battery consumption to essentially mask its decline. I still think its holding up very well.

Taking the thread a bit off topic by talking about battery longevity, but it is an interesting topic. As I said above I rode to my friends house on Thursday, a 15 and half mile ride, probably about 70% off road and 30% on road. A climbing route from Godalming rising 774 feet to its high point...

I take your point about what the OP has said and that a battery seeming to perform as well as it did when new after 200 charges seems unlikely. However, I found a very similar thing with my own Yamaha battery. When commenting about its excellent performance in my reviews I made the point that I...

I agree with Bonzo Banana, some good old fashioned empirical data would be useful. I strongly suspect the vast majority of ebike battery fires relate to cheaper ebikes and cheaper batteries. Of course any product can fail but I think it is the ones in the lowest price bracket that would be the...

I am not quite as skeptical about what has been claimed, although I accept that nearly everyone can be prone to some exaggeration at times. I have been documenting the use of my Yamaha hard tail Haibike since I bought it in March of 2015 to commute to work and back. It came with a 400Wh...

On my Yamaha the mileage is stored in the motor not the head unit/display.

Test riding as many possibles as I could worked really well for me, and has meant that I still really like the bikes I finally bought. It also showed me that the bike I thought I was going to really like was actually not for me when I rode it and another quite different one which I had not short...

I am sure the 11 speed matthewslack changed to with a 51 tooth bottom gear cog in the cassette is very nice but he could have gone the cheapskate route and put a wide range 9 speed cassette on with a 50 tooth bottom gear, all be it with wide gaps between the gears.

I regularly take my 2015 Haibike Yamaha on local trains . I have had no issues accessing stations through manned barriers or from Guards on the trains. A few years ago I took my Oxygen Emate on a train into central London Waterloo terminus, and had no issues getting to London or travelling back...

For me when I was commuting to work the addition of a bright flashing rear light made an immediate difference to the way cars approached and overtook me. I was already wearing a high viz cycle jacket and had panniers with reflective sections, but the re chargeable flashing light definitely made...

TBH Nealh after buying a second Yose battery in March 2022 to take advantage of a price drop on ebay to £165 including a spar charger and delivery for a new 15Ah silver fish , the original battery from the £100 Oxygen Emate is now more of a back up, however it does still work, though as we know...

Sounds harsh but I would want the price to reflect a new battery for each bike. Maybe not from Oxygen but the price of two batteries from a generic supplier like Yose.

A longer route combining a section by train. I think bikes often combine well with trains despite many operators making it harder for cyclists. So my target was The Shed in Lindford Hampshire where I could get a bite to eat before riding back home. As insurance I took a basic sandwich with me...

Gentle use over the last year...... Just for the record as of today Sunday March the 26th, the recorded mileage stands at 3,291, and the mileage last year on March the 24th was 2,925. So over the last year I have ridden a modest 366 miles, and 2,791 miles since I bought the bike second hand...

To help keep a bike going, Peter at Performance Line Bearings has proved to be a great asset.

17,344 mile, 8 Year Update Another great year riding my 2015 Haibike suro Hardseven SL Yamaha. The 21st of March marked the end of my eighth year of ownership. I recorded 2,046 miles for the year, and ended with a total recorded mileage for the bike of 17,344. It is no longer my ride to work...

Could not see a Yamaha Battery.

A bit of TLC makes my £100 second hand electric bike ready to ride again. A few months back, after what seemed like a gap of well over a year, David, my £100 second hand bike broke a spoke in the rear wheel. I had been sharing the shopping and errand jobs between David and my other Oxygen Emate...

My council have put in a shared path pedestrian/bikes alongside a busy road leading up to a set of traffic lights that also includes a pedestrian crossing. It keeps me off the busy road and using my bell works well. The thing is there is a small access road that I have to cross just before...