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My last ride to work today before three days off, setting off at 11:40. Lovely ride in beautiful countryside. Came across many more people than normal but it is a bank holiday so to be expected. Used even less battery capacity on my 12 mile ride to work than the day before yesterday, 26%. I had...

That's the rub BazP, the most convenient way to charge the battery is your way so that it is always ready to be used. That's the way I treat my silverfish batteries, mostly charging near to full or full in the garage so they are ready to use. I guess because the replacement costs of batteries...

First ride to work after a 21 day lay off for my Haibike bike and battery during my summer holiday break, 12 miles cross country to work and then 10 miles back home in the small hours on the road. The joys of shift work. So I charged my almost 5 and a half year old 400Wh Yamaha battery to full...

When you gotta go, Speaking of rocky tracks this is the near impossible Hollinsclough green lane in The Peak District that we went up on another boys trip on old bikes. Below is some guys in land rovers on the same. Got to love a rocky step.

Another stunner. I had a great Autumn boys trip to The Lakes a few years ago based in Coniston on old motorbikes and were very lucky with the weather in 2015, and I think if I am remembering correctly shortly after our return the area was hit by the most dreadful storms and floods. We did a...

If you do not have the technical skills and/or are lazy like me you can buy a timer plug to either cut the power to the charger when you know it will have finished charging the battery or to do a partial charge, for example if your battery is below the level you are comfortable storing it but do...

With money from my first proper job I bought a Yamaha RD400F. A rather insane coffin tanked air cooled 2 stroke. No idea how I survived that episode in my young life. I checked the registration with the DVLA gov site about 6 months ago and it is still registered and on the road. Like mine but...

So the batteries supplied with the Yamaha system judging by Chris and my own experience of hard long use would appear to be very high quality. As I charge my battery back to full at work from only a 30% discharge and leave my charger switched on and attached to my battery until the end of my...

Hi Chris, I had worked out that I had done around 400 charge cycles based on using 70% of my batteries capacity riding 22 miles to work and back and having ridden 12,450 miles so far. From that I worked out how far I could ride on one full charge cycle by dividing 22 by 0.7 to get 31.4. I...

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https://www.manualslib.com/manual/975488/Yamaha-X94-Series.html?page=19#manual A pretty blunt tool, but it is still indicating that my battery has the highest capacity that this test can indicate, ie 75% to 100%. My maths or how much I thought I had used the battery must be wrong as the test...

I agree. Simple stuff. Try to charge your battery to full close to when you are going to use your bike. Do not charge your battery to full and leave it that way too long. Do not use your battery until it is empty and leave it that way. Store your battery indoors at 50% to 70% ish...

I have not kept count of the charge cycles. Maybe my type of commuting is quite kind to the battery. Stored indoors at around 60% charge. Charged back to full close to setting off for work and back to full at work and then ridden home. Probably my maths is wrong but based on using 70% of a full...

My 2015 Yamaha 400Wh battery is now in its 6th year and working on the face of it just like it did when new. By that I mean the display shows me that I use exactly the same amount of my batteries capacity on my routes to work and back now that I did when the bike was new. I am very impressed...

Holiday transport! Just back from a staycation holiday in Torquay and took my 2011 Oxygen to park at the beach and enable me to go on a sandwich run to and from the beech hut. Lots of fresh air and swimming in the surprisingly warm sea.

The two throttles I have on a pair of old Oxygen ebikes are variable twist grip types that can be varied, so variable throttles should be possible and I have found to be very useful. I can vary the power from the throttle from very little to all of it and any amount between the two. This...

Something wrong for this to happen to a new bike. It happened to me when I had a worn out rear hub. Likewise when the whole drive train was getting very worn out. Completely stopped when I replaced the drive train and included a narrow wide front chain ring, and I have a hard tail mountain...

Ironically, I had considered fitting a heavy duty downhill tyre instead of the marathon plus. To be fair to the marathon plus it has not been at fault, it has all been due to my own incompetence after not having to deal with a puncture for literally years. And it is to that state of non...

Went out to the garage today, bloody back tyre had gone down. Fortunately there were no neighbours out and about to witness my looney tunes cartoon like reaction with John McEnroe "You cannot be serious" sound track accept using the Foxtrot Oscar word instead. After some counselling I returned...

This happened to me. My charger was protected by a 5 amp fuse in the plug. If it is the same for you both battery and charger should be OK once the fuse has been replaced. You need to find out why the fuse blew. In my case chafed wires near to where they entered the charger from the wires that...