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Rear hub motor and mid drive: Electrics fail bike still works - both types Chain breaks motor still works (PAS or throttle) - rear hub only One of my favorite ideas is a pinion gearbox with a rear hub motor. Much better weight distribution than either front hub or rear hub, lighter than...

Silly Austin Powers joke Dan: "Sharks with friggin' lasers" I thought that HM Army might have taken up the idea and adapted to horses...:p

The only one that is not recommended is the Alfine 11 speed, a Rohloff is designed to handle 110 Nm of torque. Them being German they may have a security margin on that number... Front drive is a very un-bike like ride if you have done a few km on ordinary bikes. Personal taste I guess but I...

Or buy this one in 2018: http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/orbea-gain.28978/

Do the horses have lasers mounted to their heads? Just asking... :rolleyes:

Oi you! What is that wire coming out of your backpack for? Why is it attached to your bicycle?

I am waiting on a pair of 20" probably being delivered tomorrow :) the rear wheel is getting a normal one because the plus version wasn't in stock in 26". I have had ordinary Big Bens on Number Two for over a year and I love them. Comfort and grip, they are really sticky and I have total...

How about you do a group ride through town with the motors turned off. Get the press out. If plod intervenes you can say "It can't be a motorbike if it isn't using a motor"... You need to heap scorn and ridicule on the politicians who let this kind of cr.p happen. And my thoughts on the...

Just back from my insurer to insure the new bike (and continue the old) - 40€ / yr for 4500 €. They start to get expensive when you have a bike worth 7,500 €, the premium goes up to 160 € /yr.

PAS does go to max Amps if your hills are steep enough, trust me. A throttle uses more Amps more often, even when you don't need assistance, and you are providing about 70-100 W yourself with PAS even if you are a lousy peddler.

How very eccentric! I can imagine the headlines "Man, 65, dies of suffocation while pedaling his bicycle in full face motorcycle helmet"...

Probably a bit more I think, 10000 mAh should be between 3.2 V and 4.2 V.

Just did a full charge of my 10 Ah packs, first in quite some time: I put 8937 mAh in from "empty" - 3.654 V per cell up to 4.15 V per cell, 58 minute charge time at 1C. That is about 89.4% of nominative capacity, you can expect 90% of nominative capacity because my LiPo alarm hadn't gone off...

Will the cells in your pack accept higher charging Amps? The popular Samsung 30Q will accept 4 Amps rapid charge. Rapid charge will mean a cell life of about 300 charges compared to up to 600 at 2 Amps.

I must be one of the many BMS battery clients that replied to the e-mail asking if I was satisfied with my order: "yes but the controller should have a light output". :)

Just re-read the BMS battery page for the first time in a while, the in battery controller isn't up to 500W... Shame it is a very clean solution. You want 500W because you are a big chap?

You can buy b+m e-bike lights which plug into the battery and work from 6 to 42 V and also have daytime running lights. As you go up in the range you have lights that work from 6 to 70 V and others that change automatically from day to night time power depending on ambiant light captured by a...

I wouldn't consider a front wheel drive bike for hill climbing, we have hills in the Basque Country too where I have tried one but only on a dry day. I can foresee problems in the wet because I had slippage in the dry... Look at this...

Macron = well educated with no common sense... He had a chance to modernise the French Code de travail which is industrial age, I think that he has blown it. He could have kept the industrial age bit for the concerned sectors (there is still some industry left here) and add a second Code de...

EU pedelec limit actually :) Adopted by the UK road code, well almost all of the UK... :rolleyes: In my youth I used to ride twice as fast un-powered on a racing bike as I do now. No speedos back then it was car drivers who gave me my speed when they caught up with me at the red lights. First...