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About a year ago the fuse on my Yamaha charger blew in spectacular style when I plugged it in at work, and typically on a day that I had set off to work with about an 80% charge rather than full. This left me with 52% for the 10 mile journey home. However once at home I would have no means of...

I was slightly reluctant to reply to Gubbins queery about how I manage to achieve around a 20mph average speed on my road ride home due to the way many threads have previously got derailed by the legal bike/non legal bike polarising argument, and how certain members who are entirely rational...

That looks like a fantastic ride Eddie. It is the right time of year to do it. I came home from work last night/early morning around 01:30AM following in parts the valley of the river Wey and there were small patches of thick mist. The temperature had also fallen away quite markedly.

Beautiful Symmetry My 14 mile mostly off road ride to work today used 25% of my battery, giving a theoretical range of 56 miles from my three years and two month old 400Wh that has covered 9122 miles My 10 mile faster ride home using more assistance to achieve my 20mph average speed used 35%...

It has toiled away deflecting mud for over 9000 miles. Have some respect. Yes recently it has sagged and probably I need a new one but it continues to do its job. Good show.

I took a longer 18 mile route to work today looping out cross country close to Thursley to take in the countryside around Frensham and Tilford on my way to Farnham. Woodland adjacent to Thursley Common Forked Pond Thursley Common Hankley Common Hankley Common Lion's Mouth, Atlantic...

DIY easy fix for Yamaha Battery/Charger Connection Problem Well we ended up opening up the battery and soldering the wires directly inside where they cannot be bent or broken. Nothing dreadful happened when we opened the battery case and the battery charged just as before when we had put it...

Nice Hors d'oeuvre before the roast lamb.

We were very lucky with the weather. I was having to hang back from the bike in front to avoid the worst of the kicked up dust. I cannot say I was expecting that in Wales. Normally it is an enjoyable festival of mud. Lots of new born lambs and fabulous scenery.

Hi Oyster, I was born and brought up in Hampshire which is another lovely county, and moved to Surrey with work. Surrey offers great cross country tracks with hills and ridge lines to provide views, a lot of common land, woodland and a lots of lakes. I am a couple of weeks back from a boys...

Great to have the nice weather. Photographs from yesterdays ride to work. Godalming to Farnham in Surrey. View right from bridge View of ford to left of bridge

My Yamaha 400Wh battery has entered its fourth year and has covered 9022 miles since I bought the bike. Comparing off road with on road can be interesting. I rode mostly off road to work yesterday completing 14 miles and using 28% of my battery giving a theoretical range of 50 miles. The...

Thanks Dave. My repair is not that pretty but it is working effectively at the moment. Just as important in some ways is the knowledge that it can be done without some big brother defeat technology shutting the battery down and locking you out. I did not want to throw away a battery that...

The sDuro returned to service for three return trips to work and 66 miles. Due to being early shifts these rides were on the road and did not involve any off road elements. As expected the battery and charger worked as before and my 20 mph average speed 10 mile return trip on the last day...

When I had a problem with the motor on my Oxygen Emate City bike I was sent a new motor wheel by Andrew at Oxygen free of charge. That motor wheel began to break spokes and I became a dab hand at taking spokes from the old wheel and replacing any broken spokes on the new wheel. I always...

I have noticed a Haibike locked and left quite regularly in the same cycle area on the platform of a mainline station I use that has not gone missing for about six months so far. But I would not fancy doing the same.

Well we ended up opening up the battery and soldering the wires directly inside where they cannot be bent or broken. Nothing dreadful happened when we opened the battery case and the battery charged just as before when we had put it all back together. We used external silicon sealant for...

Necessity is the mother of invention. I guess if Raleigh are not going to fix it I am going to have to do it myself! A mate and I took the plug at the charger end apart to find four colour coded wires. We soldered four appropriately coloured wires onto the wire pegs at the battery shrink...

These modern systems (Bosch,Yamaha,Shimano etc) really try to stop you being able to do anything to them yourself. This then becomes a right pain in the .... when something goes wrong out of warranty. The plug that connects my Yamaha charger to the battery broke and a pin connector at the...