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You should always buy a KT controller with a matching LCD because there can be some software differences, which can cause surprises after you install. I'm guessing that your motor is a direct drive one. Please confirm. They're very power hungry, so a 17A controller would be running at its...

There are plenty of people on this forum that would take them from you for the cost of postage. Which exact motors are they? Can you show some photos if you're not sure which ones they are?

The lights are switched by a transistor inside the LCD. If you overload it, like any short in the lighting circuit or if you fit a light that's too powerful for it, it blows and stays on. Was or is there a problem with the front light?

It's more tricky with your version. Freego used at least 3 different systems over the years to connect the LCD. With your one, you'd have to make the bridge inside the controller or inside the control panel unless you want to open the cable between the LCD and the junction box. Don't bridge any...

Don't listen to this guy. He has no idea of the type of hub-motor systems we use. Most of his advice is completely bogus. Go to Halfords and look at all the bikes with hub-motors. I'll give you £1 for every torque arm you can count that's on any of their bikes.

Completely false. Bafang used to test their geared motors to 30,000km. That was before they improved the material that the gears are made of. Even before that, many of the failed gears were in motors full of rust. 12 years ago, rusty motors and motors with failed hall sensors due to water...

It's difficult to find any details, but a battery datasheet mentions UART comms, and, apart from the motors, their electrical stuff isn't common. I'd recommend getting a bike with standard Chinese electrics and no comms in the battery rather than one of those bikes. If it goes wrong, you'll come...

You can turn up the power if you want. That causes more to come from the battery and less from the rider. If both are kept on level 5, they both give the same power. It's only when you turn down the power that the difference shows.

You should have asked when you first noticed the shortcomings of your original installation. You have the wrong type of controller. What you need is a KT controller. They give true power control, while as yours uses speed control, so you get full power in all levels, each with a different speed...

In the end it makes no difference. You have energy in the battery that you can convert into motive energy to help you with your ride. If two riders of equal weight on equal bikes apart from one had the controller set to speed control and the other to current control, then they completed the same...

That's interesting. have you actually experienced it switching voltage during a ride? Mine is 36v/48v and I recently ran the battery to cut-out on a steep hill, and it cut out about three times altogether, as I gradually had tom turn down the power to get home. It didn't switch to 36v.

Hub motors don't have a voltage as such. The voltage stamped on them is only so that they can state the speed. The motor constant (Kv) is the significant characteristic. A 260 rpm 36v motor with a Kv of 7.22 would be identical in all respects to a 48v 338 rpm one. In other words, you can run a...

You clearly have very little or no experience of the sort of hub-motor systems we use. Just about everything you said about hub-motors there is untrue. There's no way in the world that your 350w crank motor can match the climbing power of a 500w Bafang BPM running at 48v and 25 amps. I doubt...

Avoid any hub-motor with an integrated controller. I've never heard of a reliable one yet.

The two main problems are the torque sensor and motor connector. It could be either. Before looking at those, make sure that the LCD connections are clean.

Oxygens normally have one or two brakes with a switch. Look again for the wire coming out of the lever.

Usually aluminium. I don't think I've ever seen a steel one, except relics from the past. 250w doesn't mean anything. A 250w hub-motor easily gives enough power if you run it at 48v and 17 amps. I guess that the deliveroo riders on Reddit know very little about how ebikes work.

The old Chinese bikes have really crappy controllers. They work, but it's not the best riding experience. Motors haven't changed much and modern batteries give more power and have more capacity than the old ones.

There's a connector in that pod on the front where the cable goes one into 4. Stick a paperclip up the back of it. I thought it has female pins, so you can disconnect it and stick the paper clip in the front.

There's too much choice now. LG cells came out best for life in tests.