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  1. georgehenry

    eMTB owners photo and ride thread.

    Second commute of a potential four. A beautiful day. After taking this picture and getting back on the bike the front tyre had gone flat. I had pumped up both tyres yesterday and suspected the valve rather than a puncture. I tried pumping it up but it deflated and then as I was within a mile...
  2. georgehenry

    Snow traction

    Hi Deere John a front hub drive bike is a style of bike that I have not ridden but can see that it could provide good traction combined with pedaling.
  3. georgehenry

    Snow traction

    This was my ride to work on the 19th of March last year in sunny Surrey. I return to work today for four evening shifts with quite a bit of snow forecast so think of me riding home tonight/early tomorrow if it dumps tonight.
  4. georgehenry

    Rear Panniers

    I use Ortleib back roller classic and within reason they can be adjusted to sit further back away from your heal on the rack very easily. A test ride is definitely the way to go. Like others the ability to overfill the back roller classic can be very useful and and a feature used more often than...
  5. georgehenry

    Freezing weather and eBike problems

    I continue to ride to work and back through the winter using an old Oxygen Emate city if I am riding on the road there and back 20 mile round trip and a Haibike Yamaha hard tail mountain bike if I am using a 14 mile cross country route to work then 10 miles back on the road. Apart from a...
  6. georgehenry

    Denmark adopts S-Pedelecs

    Good spot flecc. Interesting. Being averse to over legislation I would be quite happy with the Danish approach.
  7. georgehenry

    The tale of a £100 second hand electric bike.

    Just a quick update. I have just used my £100 Emate for three return trips to work and 60 miles in total. They were early starts in cold temperatures and some persistent light rain on one trip carrying my normal two loaded panniers and 100kg plus me. The bike was as I bought her with original...
  8. georgehenry

    eMTB owners photo and ride thread.

    Great pictures rustbucket
  9. georgehenry

    eMTB owners photo and ride thread.

    Yes I have had my ups and only a few downs but really enjoy replacing a car journey to work and back with an assisted bike ride. The first motor that was replaced under warranty was actually fine apart from a worn bearing probably effected by water ingress, and I am now very careful when...
  10. georgehenry

    eMTB owners photo and ride thread.

    Hi Deere John, Yes it is good to work yourself a bit in the cold to warm yourself up, and although I have coped without a dropper post, and do not need one for the xc routes I use going to work, I can see how useful they could be on technical steep inclines.
  11. georgehenry

    eMTB owners photo and ride thread.

    That is a good question Dom T. A new 400Wh battery is £650 and a 500Wh battery £850. There are pattern ones available but from comments on other threads these have worked well for some and not for others. I believe the original battery can be re-celled. Against this is the fact that a brand...
  12. georgehenry

    GPS tracker

    This bike has been left at a local station regularly by a commuter without so far being nicked but I would not do it myself! Must be a couple of years now.
  13. georgehenry

    eMTB owners photo and ride thread.

    The start time of my last shift of five last night meant that I took the car. On the return drive back home the display in my car briefly showed -5 and no warmer than -3.5, a bit nippy. I also do not mind the cold too much and over the previous four days riding to work and back had covered 94...
  14. georgehenry

    eMTB owners photo and ride thread.

    Yesterday was my coldest commute of the winter so far. Used 35% of the battery on my 14 mile off road route to work and 44% on my 10 mile road ride home at around midnight. BBC weather had predicted -3 for the ride home and my Yamaha LCD display showed -1. It was around 8 degrees for my ride to...
  15. georgehenry

    De-restricted Chain Slip...

    Welcome to the high mileage crank drive commuter club. Check for a tight link but as a fellow high mileage crank drive commuter I find that the smallest rings with the least teeth on your cassette will start to jump first sooner or later if your motor is assisting above the cut off. If you...
  16. georgehenry

    battery life seems fairly poor for me about 4000 miles

    Yesterday was my coldest commute of the winter so far. Used 35% of the battery on my 14 mile off road route to work and 44% on my 10 mile road ride home at around midnight. BBC weather had predicted -3 for the ride home and my Yamaha LCD display showed -1 when I put the bike in my garage. It was...
  17. georgehenry

    battery life seems fairly poor for me about 4000 miles

    Flecc I think you are right and that for battery longevity a management system that allowed some choice or customization by the owner could be a way forward. On a regular commute like mine I use no more than 45% and as little as 25% of my batteries capacity for each single leg of the journey...
  18. georgehenry

    battery life seems fairly poor for me about 4000 miles

    With my cheap Chinese charger I just use one of these to limit how long the charge stays on. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005C9S0I8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  19. georgehenry

    battery life seems fairly poor for me about 4000 miles

    I bought a Haibike sDuro HardSeven Yamaha in 2015. It has a 400Wh battery. I use it to commute to work and back. Yesterday I rode 14 miles cross country and used 31% of the battery giving a theoretical range of 45 miles, charged the battery back up at work and then rode 10 miles on the road home...
  20. georgehenry

    eMTB owners photo and ride thread.

    Nice coincidence but I am currently reading Rain Dogs by Adrian Mckinty a police procedural where the murder has been carried out at Carrickfergus castle!