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Leaving aside an issue I had with the battery connectors* on my outdated eMate, my Oxygen is a superb bike. It handles bridleways and canal towpaths with ease, although it's a few Kgs too heavy to be thrown around technical off-road stuff. For the price, it is very well specced, with decent...

This is a good-looking folder in matt black. It has the solid 4-speed Shimano Nexus rear hub gear, so would be ideal as a front-hubbed conversion. http://www.atob.org.uk/folding-bikes/mezzo-i4/ Hardly used since I bought it on a whim. It has sat mostly unused whilst my Birdy and Brompton get...

Any thoughts on this kit? https://bmsbattery.com/ebike-battery/784-48v116ah-case-08-bottle-panasonic-battery-pack-battery.html Alternatively, can you point me to a suitable controller kit from PSWP, please? I am clueless as to what I need!

My eMate's battery is 2.5 years old and really doesn't like the cold weather. I've charged it a few hundred times and it has had some frankenstein surgery over the time I've had it. Maybe it's time for an upgrade. I've seen a link to the BMS site where it's going to cost about £350 for the...

The Ice Spikers have been on since Christmas. Although they do the job asked of them, I hate riding on them. The profile is very unfriendly for road riding and I long for the day when I can put the Land Cruisers back on. There is very little else to report about the eMate, except that it is...

I once toured with a Bike Hod round Holland. Nightmare. It was very windy & the upright nature of the trailer acted as a sail slowing me down immensely. I'd say it depends on how much stuff you want to take. I usually put the tent in the front panniers and everything else in the rear panniers...

Something like this might also do the trick, although this supplier only has it in 56cm. I have toured on an unpowered MTB when I was much younger & fitter. It was not a good tourer. The gearing was useful, but the geometry made for a cramped ride unsuited to longer distances; that despite me...

Did you bother looking at the bike I linked to? I suspect not, as you would have seen that it has 26" tyres. So, plenty of choice for suitable tyres. Regarding your stability point: Weight of motor at the front; weight of battery in the bottle bosses position and weight of the panniers at the...

Whilst I agree with a lot Woosh says, I disagree about the Dutch riding position and front suspension fork. Bikes of that style tend to be heavy. A tourer needs to be robust, but nimble. It won't be a sleek racer, but it should have lots of braze-ons for racks, etc. Something like this would do...

I converted an Orbit Orion using a Panda kit and a battery from Jimmy at BGA Reworking. The battery is 17.5Ah and running the kit derestricted I get about 40 miles out of it on my commute with plenty of life left. I think if I ran it restricted to 25Kph, even with a touring load, I could get 70...

I spoke too soon. The Alfine failed spectacularly on the way home. It just spins without drive making a rather unpleasant grinding noise. Luckily I was <1 mile from home, so the throttle did the work.

I am referring to the Swytch kit that Panda are flogging, not their standard kits... https://www.swytchbike.com/the-product/

Panda Bikes are selling a Brompton conversion kit at a much cheaper price than Nano's. However, they haven't exactly been quick to answer my query regarding fork changes ( http://pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/last-chance-to-order-the-swytch-complete-ebike-kit-for-%C2%A3225.29960/#post-415342 )...

Still going strong, although the gear jumps still happen from time to time. It's still on Marathon + tyres, as the Oxygen has the Ice Spikers for frosty conditions. The Orbit was a light machine pre-conversion, and the whole package is a very well balanced bit of kit. It is certainly easier to...

PM me if you would like me to put you in touch with someone who has converted a similar trike to electric drive.

I had reason to split the case on my Das Kit/Oxygen battery and was amazed to find that there was little or no water ingress protection. I put it back together and silicon sealed the joints as best I could, but I doubt it is anywhere near waterproof even now. Even more worrying is that the...

Drums fingers...

The tensioner was replaced, well I scavenged parts from the two knackered ones I had to make one good one. I also took a couple of links out of the chain to hopefully stop the gear jumps. Partial success, as they have reduced, but I suspect now that it's a hub thing as they haven't stopped...

I have a non-electric R&M Birdy Blue. Although inferior in fold size to a Brompton, it is by far the better ride and, arguably, overall package - and I have both. The quality & innovation are excellent.

Choose the right bike and you'll be cycling for pleasure as well as the commute. My experience of my commute is that I bought a cheap bike secondhand off eBay. It basically fell to pieces around me. Since then I've converted a couple of bikes with different degrees of success. My current stable...