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So for an expensive crank drive you need to allow for both the motor and the battery!

As I said marmite and I only speak from my own experience which has been good. Maybe it would have been otherwise if I had wanted to return my bike if it had been the wrong size. I almost did not post my comment above because the only two people who know the truth of that particular matter are...

Although one story is good until another is told and I never commented in that thread at the time I believe that the person who made that rather bitter post may not have been completely truthful. What he may have failed to declare in his post though I have no evidence one way or another is that...

One potentially flaw in the flec valuation method in relation to crank drive bikes is the assumption that the battery is the most fragile element. I am one of those high mileage commuters using a crank drive Yamaha hard tail Haibike. I bought it in March 2015, and it is now 3 and a half years...

There is a thread going on at the moment in the electric mountain bike forum featuring the Voodoo Zobob E from Halfords. A full suspension mountain bike with Bosch CX performance motor, 500Wh battery and Rock shox suspension, plus size tyres and dropper post that with discounts is being bought...

Thanks for your reply and picture. If you are mostly in bottom gears climbing under load i think your cassette should last a long time. I ride in beautiful countryside but Austria must be something special. I have skied in a number of locations in Austria and ridden through parts with friends on...

Hi Chris, I have been tempted to go for a front mech dual chain ring set up to enable me to do just what you suggest. I was very close to doing it but then just never actually did. If you were at some time able to take a few pictures of your set up to post on this thread at some time it...

10,000 Mile Update 10.000 miles feels like a milestone on my Haibike Yamaha commuting to work odyssey. Haibike sDuro HardSeven SL 2015 Yamaha 3 and a half Year update As of my return trip from work last night I have covered 9954 miles with 3954 on the new motor. I return to work on Friday and...

As Keats said"It is a time of mists and mellow fruitfulness" though he somehow failed to mention lost ebikers.

Although I have never owned one people speak highly of the motus. You have done the most important thing which is to test ride the bike and like it. Bosch is a quality product. These are their new motors and if there is an issue with them that will appear over time that issue is not known at the...

Keep your eyes on the classified ads. I recently bought a Oxygen emate city for spar parts for a 2011 one I have and when I got it home realised that it was in much better nick than mine. It needed a saddle £10 from lidl and a replacement spoke in the rear wheel. Oxygen sent me 10 free of...

Although I have never owned one many pedelec members rate the bikes whoosh sell and are within your budget and worth checking out.

Sounds good to me. Living in Amsterdam or somewhere near by like Haarlem where I have spent a little time and ridden a dutch bike into Amsterdam on their fantastic bike infrastructure was great fun.

QUOTEI feel a little more is needed but 20 could be a bit much around people to be honest. I do feel the current limit is just below what is ideal for most. Maybe there could be new rules that allow higher speeds on roads but keep the current limit on cycle paths and near people. The thing is...

I noticed that I touched just over 62 kph on my ride home from work today with the motor off and me crouched over the bars down a short but steep hill. I think we all enjoy our little debates about what speed limit we would prefer but after being on this site for a while now it is clear that...

Oh there was one idea I had. Instead of a speed limit where the motor cuts out I thought that you could keep the speed cut off for the higher power settings but have no speed cut of for the eco setting. This would remove the hitting the wall issue some people have at the momen.

My vote would be 20 mph although I cannot see any changes happening any time soon. After all if you are happy with the current limit you do not have to ride any faster than you do at the moment. For any regular commuter on the road in the mix with other traffic going that little bit faster in...

There is a sort of height adjustment system on my rear rack where a rod with a screw hole in it slides inside the tube of the supporting leg which has a number of pre drilled holes allowing you to screw the rod firmly into the down tube using which ever pre drilled hole is appropriate. Anyway...

Muddy I posted my reply just as you were posting yours and I posted the above before reading yours, which is a decent response and takes the heat out of it and probably a pretty good example of a digital hand shake.

Handbags. From when I played the odd game of Pub Sunday League football you would occasionally get two players from your own side falling out. Always amusing for the meager band of supporters on the side lines. Here we have two Volt owners winding each other up. Though I have noticed before...