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You have the Sinclair lad designing his way into a corner :p And Brompton which has kept alive the tradition of brazing steel tubing... You need managers with vision, do you have schools which produce such a beast? Then that person has to have access to investors, are there any who invest...

No that means you are running your motor at 540 W. The bike Wattage is the Wattage engraved on the motor whatever you do to limit output. 250 W output is 5.2 A x 48v.

My point is the words "rated power" aren't used as they are for motor output. This puts voltage on a different legal footing. Motor power is a consumer protection thing - the motor must provide up to 250 W continuous, that it may also provide over is out of the scope of EN15194. EDIT: I made a...

It hasn't been tested in court yet, even d8veh was intrigued by the wording (my red text): 1 Scope This European Standard is intended to cover electrically power assisted cycles of a type which have a maximum continuous rated power of 0,25 kW, of which the output is progressively reduced and...

And a bit of chain... Frame lock + D-Lock (U when it is open) is my choice every time.

48v maximum, there are not a lot of those batteries on the market, they all charge up to 54.6v... Revolutionary idea ;) use the assistance level button! It gives you the different Amps. Example of a vanilla KT 15 Amp controller and a GSM mid-drive (BBS01 clone): 5 - 720 W battery hot off the...

No I am not saying that I am saying that limiting power to 250 W does not make the motor legal. Read this: http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/pages/electric-bike-law-uk/

Mine looks like a tapas bar. Or more like a tapas bar crawl... :D

No you can't the power of the motor is the one that is engraved on it.

Maybe the boat should have rerouted to the UK? (a.k.a. Gibraltar) What? Oh yeah... Right... I'll be on my way...

Do you want to bounce or do you want to absorb bumps? I have had mine for about 5500 km now which = about 0.01€ / km of ache free comfortable riding. Your choice...

Copy/Paste is your friend :p: "Right, first ride out today on the new Gain, not far only 21miles and I only averaged 11mph but enough to get the feel of things. And my initial impression, bloody brilliant! It's a bit like riding with a tail wind gently pushing you along all the time. It...

Do yourself a favor and spend more on a Suntour NCX. It doesn't act like a pogo stick under your backside, you won't regret the extra comfort.

With a hub motor and no throttle you don't really need them. Maybe on a tandem it is easier to move the pedals while manoeuvring? In any case I have over 3600 trouble free km without. The first time your bike tries to run away on its own you learn to turn it off/down to 0 assist when you are not...

Watts don't limit speed, air resistance does. A vélomobile without a motor can do over 60 km/h on the flat with no wind and the rider providing around 250 W. Most 250 W hub motors reach about 32-33 km/h @ 36v and mid-drives can quite easily reach 45 km/h with a 36v battery. As @flecc has...

Wealthy Greeks don't pay income tax. That can be a problem...

The nexus 8 which is the most common IGH didn't have a disk mount until very recently. People being strange they don't get the idea you can have a hydraulic disk on the front and a mechanical rim brake on the rear. If you look even more carefully ;) you will see the German bikes with the nexus 8...

Meanwhile in the EU: The Netherlands to invest a further 100 million € in cycling infrastructure to get another 200 k people out of cars for their commute.

We have a new method: farmers are blocking access to refineries. No diesel at the pump, no pollution! Simples! :cool:

Don't leave you bike parked in the sun, especially if the battery case is black!