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I've been using one for sometime now James, I bought mine when the price fell to £14.99! I usually find consumption with my NiMh Torq (From the mains) is about 10Wh per mile and that it takes about 420Wh to recharge a nominally 324Wh battery from flat. My Sprint with the same batteries is less...

I'm sure Flecc does mean running the battery to cutoff, or as close as is practical. The Ezee controller cuts out at a safe figure of just over 1.05 V per cell, repeated discharging to this figure won't harm the battery and will help it attain maximum capacity. In practice the point at which...

It's part of NHS cutbacks:rolleyes:

I stand corrected! I knew they were the only Brompton supplier in the city I didn't know about the Powabyke sales though as I've not seen it mentioned in their adverts. The Bike Park, sponsored by the local council is claimed to be the largest indoor secure bicycle park in the country and...

Too true Stuart, in fact most take it a step further and travel at the maximum speed right up to any hold up which causes bunching and further delays. The active traffic management recently introduced on the M42 is a major step in forcing drivers to adopt a smoother driving style and the...

Unless you find the weight of the bike with its standard lead-acid batteries a problem you're probably better off not upgrading. Lithium batteries are still rather new, and in some other brands have suffered from very short lives. While the chances are they will outlive the standard lead-acid...

There has been a discussion of these in the past when I needed a longer pair when replacing a Tekro brake with Shimano. The concensus at the time was that are hard to find, no one on the forum having seen any as aftermarket spares. My solution was to make extension spacers for the existing pair...

I totally agree with you Frank but the problem is that for many of us there is no shop round the corner, at least no suitable shop. I do actually live close to Loughborough but apart from the one much mentioned dealer in that town there are no other bike shops in or near a city of 300,000 that...

It has been discussed elsewhere whether electric bikes really are suitable for mail order, my own view is that they are if purchased from a bona-fide retailer because of the automatic rights granted to the purchaser under the distance selling regulations. A brief summary are the regulations is...

Even better Keith, I like it. But is 2 bob still 10p or has inflation taken its toll.

The original question Jeronimo479 was aimed at Ezee customers in the UK and relates to an offer made by Ezee to replace faulty batteries out of their normal UK 6 month warranty, I doubt it applies to customers outside of the UK. Interesting that you made a claim on your credit card, many cards...

A technique that can be used with non-pedelec bikes is to "walk" the bike up the hill while applying power, it is actually easier than walking without the bike and certainly easier than pushing a conventional cycle up such a hill. It is important to remember that electric bicycles are not...

In my experience that is the case with many bicycle wheels with chunky tyres, the same effect can often be seen if a non-motored mtb rear wheel is spun up to high speed with the pedals. The effect is far worse if slime has been added to the tube as it collects in the low point when the bike is...

I'd guess it to be about 20% from the photos, but it looks very long and would be a severe challenge to most e-bikes.

Hello and welcome to the forum Tony. Try both them both by all means but make sure you try the Powacycle on a hill comparable to those on your commute. I don't think there is any doubt the Powabyke will manage your weight on most hills but the Powacycle is a less powerful machine and may...

My own preference is for something fairly narrow, as long as it has a small firm area on either side to support the pelvic "sit bones" the rest is largely irrelevant and excess width just gets in the way. Such saddles do require getting used to and lead to soreness of the "sit bone" area in the...

Attempting to judge the angle of a gradient by eye can be very deceptive and a protractor is only of use if used in conjunction with a level reference. In reality no hill on a public road is likely to be as steep as 35 deg from horizontal as that equates to 1 in 1.7 or 57% which is far beyond...

It all a bit of a grey area, I would argue that the electrial parts of a bike do in fact constitute electronic equipment but others may disagree. I know that Heinzmann are a large ISO9001 registered company and therefore must have processes in place to ensure compliance with all relevent...

It would be interesting to know how Hienzmann have circumvented EU Directive 2002/95/EC effective 1/7/2006 regarging the use NiCad batteries, a directive that haunts me daily at work and has cost the electrical industry £millions in eliminating certain hazardous materials including cadmium from...

It's hard to compare bikes to cars as even the the most modern electric bike has cycle parts that have changed little in over 100 years, for instance in the trouble free 20000 miles between services we expect from our typical modern car any bike is going to get through 2 to 5 pairs of...