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  1. cyclebuddy

    Help! Noisy Mxus 48v 500w on Mate Icon

    No. I looked at it though last year when I needed a short-distance foldable city bike. As I did Fiido D11 & D4 (250w), Himo Z20 (250w) and Samebike 20LVX (350w), which have all been in short supply. There's now the ADO A20 too (350w). I ended up buying a Fiido D11, because it had the best...
  2. cyclebuddy

    Help! Noisy Mxus 48v 500w on Mate Icon

    I love the way these people innocently (or stupidly) publish videos of themselves breaking the law... in this case, doing 32kph on public roads and cycleways with an illegal 500w e-bike - with the Mate Bike X, doing 47kph with a 750w one. Youtube video is all the evidence the Police need to...
  3. cyclebuddy

    handlebar cams

    I have the same Akaso V50X cam as @snafu, bought especially/permanently fixed to my e-bike. I've been using it for just over a year now to record new rides/routes/things of interest on the ride. For the money it's pretty good compared to another Akaso cam I own (about £75 with a 32gb card) and...
  4. cyclebuddy

    Rejoined!

    Hi Mary Welcome back to the forum! I sent you a private message.
  5. cyclebuddy

    Request - does anyone have a Gazelle Balance bike I could test ride briefly? Near Cambridge?

    The Gazelle you seek is still listed as available in the UK on Gazelles website, in both their main menu, and on a specific bike product page. It's called: GAZELLE Balance C7 HFP Here's a shop selling it: It's out of stock, but that's likely to be that almost ALL e-bikes are out of stock at the...
  6. cyclebuddy

    Neodrives battery repair

    Are you sure it's your BMS and not the cells? The battery has done pretty well as a "primary transport" if it has been going since 2015.
  7. cyclebuddy

    Standard 3pin ebike chargers?

    There already is a perfectly good network of charging points for e-bikes around the UK - they're called pubs, cafes, coffee shops, McDonalds (other junk food outlets are available). The bonus here is you can grab a coffee, maybe some food, and take a leak all at the same time... and all whilst...
  8. cyclebuddy

    ADO A20

    This is the extent of Police enforcement... Any motor beyond 250w is still illegal to use on lanes and cycle-paths - it's for use on private land only with the landowners permission. In all seriousness, provided you don't ride like a nutter carving everyone up, you'll probably be okay. Why...
  9. cyclebuddy

    Fiido D11 Folding e-bike - A sort of review

    A quick spin out this morning on the D11 - honestly, no noticeable drag. I upended the bike, put a coloured tape marker on both front and rear tyres and spun the wheels by hand with reasonable force - repeated a few times to get an average. The front free spinning wheel spun 25 times, the rear...
  10. cyclebuddy

    Samebike L026 Error code 07

    Try www.markshop.co.uk in West London - they seem to be the main UK sales and service agent for most of these cheap Chinese bikes inc. Samebike, Himo, Fiido, ADO.
  11. cyclebuddy

    Fiido D11 Folding e-bike - A sort of review

    It certainly freewheels quite easily - nothing about the behaviour of the bike has struck me as odd or irksome. But I've not questioned drag specifically. And I've never tried riding without power for several reasons: 1) Until very recently I believed it was speed control - all the reviewers...
  12. cyclebuddy

    Fiido D11 Folding e-bike - A sort of review

    I recently bought one of these Fiido D11 folders (my 3rd e-bike). It cost £800, including shipping and an 8% UK surcharge and currency fees, ordered direct from Fiido, delivered from within the UK. Rather than just trundle out a personal and likely highly biased review, I thought it'd be better...
  13. cyclebuddy

    Looking for a Road/Gravel eBike with/without Throttle

    Parts availability will be a problem for many as the tech improves at ever increasing speeds... As for Halfords; this morning in The Guardian: "Most bicycle retailers have had to cope with long waiting lists for some machines. Halfords, which imports its bikes from Europe and Asia, has had...
  14. cyclebuddy

    Looking for a Road/Gravel eBike with/without Throttle

    There's the Carrera Crossroad, available in Large frame for £1000. You'll likely get better if you spend your full budget, but the reviews suggest it's fair value. Carrera Crossroad Electric Bike - L | Halfords UK Plenty of reasonable reviews on it such as these: Carrera Crossroad e-road...
  15. cyclebuddy

    Pulse Bike

    Isn't the controller integral to the rack battery? How do you know it's the controller that needs replacement? I suspect it won't be available as a part on it's own. Pulse was the budget end brand of Ebco in Warwickshire - e-bikes imported from the Far East under their own brand name(s). At...
  16. cyclebuddy

    Trek Powerfly 4

    Sitting on the bike, the Lockout lever (on the right*) needs to be in the open/unlocked position for the suspension fork to work. The lever only turns in one direction. You need to turn the knob on the other/left* stanchion to adjust how hard the fork spring is tensioned - and to set "sag"...
  17. cyclebuddy

    Trek Powerfly 4

    The left side knob adjusts pre-load - sag, how hard or soft. The right side lever is lock-out - whether the spring works at all or not. Did you try flipping the right side lock-out lever 180 degrees?
  18. cyclebuddy

    Gocycle G1 Controller Wanted

    There are so many onerous caveats in Gocycle's conditions of sale and warranty, I'm surprised you'd be able to ride it at all without breaching their definition of permitted use. I like the bit that says it's only designed for "simple riding... in fair weather"! You can read the small print...
  19. cyclebuddy

    Halfords Bike Service

    The level of expertise available at any given Halfords store does seem to be variable. Some are good, some pretty dire, or so it seems. But you never know until you try your own local one out. Any fixed-price servicing menu I've ever seen at any bike shop covers labour only, with parts always...
  20. cyclebuddy

    Help! Fiido D2S Xiongda motor shut itself every 15 minutes

    Just contact Fiido by email support@fiido.com. If your bike is still under warranty, they'll send you the parts you need to fix it or give you a warranty certificate so you can take it to one of their repair centres.