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I love your utopian vision @oyster but that would require a government capable of planning beyond the end of the next parliamentary term! @vulcanears this is an interesting subject, and I really like the idea of being able to tour long distance on an ebike. Are you in the UK? If so, you'll...

Welcome Les It's worth drawing up a list of things you want the bike to do and the type of riding you want to do, then rank them in order of importance. This can help narrow the search....

10/10 for ingenuity and knocking it up so quick. I suspect you might raise a few eyebrows when you hit the road with it, but if it keeps the nutters at arms length then it's gotta be a good thing. Keep us posted with the road test....

Yowzers Wheezy, that thing's a beast! Will it easily fold out the way if someone hits it?

Do you know if that £1K was paid by the car insurer or did the rider have their own policy?

They'd have to find a way for it to run with the "locked" Bosch battery and display....

Without resurrecting the thread from the other night regarding legality, I think from an insurance perspective it would depend on what questions you were asked at the inception of the policy i.e. "does the insured bike comply with current law and is it roadworthy" or something like that. What I...

@georgehenry that's a really informative and balanced viewpoint from someone with "a foot in both camps". Thank you for taking the time to share- very educational.

So forgetting what the display is showing, does the bike actually feel slower? The display may be giving an innacurate status. You only really know how much range you've got once you've hit the LVC a few times. When you hit the LVC, take a note of the voltage

Is that based on the bars on the display? Have you taken a voltage reading from the battery with a multimeter to determine how much is left?

Yes, dedinitely worth being sure. Thankfully bike accidents are rare, but there have been a few bicycle/ pedestrian horror stories in the news recently. I'll be interested to hear the outcome. I'm the riskiest person in the world, but even I'm starting to think that PLI might be a good idea....

I'm intrigued by this. Have you actually checked your policy wording around PLI away from the home? Or just asked over the 'phone? I ask because both Direct Line (my insurer) and I recently got our knickers in a huge knot around a seperate PLI issue (nothing to do with ebikes), and it left me...

That's the idea- it might keep @Andy-Mat busy for a few months!! As you say, it's created a whole sub-industry on the mechanical side of things. I doubt anybody can be bothered to try and defeat their locked CANBUS systems though. Big investment in for a relatively small return....

@Andy-Mat, as soon as I saw the title of this post I knew it would be "Manna from Heaven" for you! You're clearly very impassioned about Bosch mid-drives for whatever reason. I absolutely agree that people need to know facts, and the more facts a person has, the wiser they are. Your posts...

Ah, I geddit. Based on your previous post I thought you'd had the TSDZ for 5 years- I thought you were in line for the "TSDZ high-mileage award"!

Interesting. I suspect the nylon gears are designed as a "mechanical fuse" on all the mid-drives, loke the shear-pin on an outboard. Did they fail under high load? Were the controller failures caused by overheating do you think? As an aside, you might wanna contact the guy in this thread- he's...

Looks really good and at that price, fantastic value. I think that bike is probably the answer to at least 50% of the "what ebike should I buy" threads that get posted on here....should sell well. Nice work

Apologies for the thread-jack OP @Nealh what motors were they and what happened to them? Were there common failure point in all of them?

That's why you don't need any of these "weird things", i.e you've had so much practise you can probably fix one in your sleep. But for anyone less experienced, surely anything that makes the (tedious) process easier has gotta be a good thing....

@kazvet and @Greenpotterer, please don't stress too much about the weight thing. If you get a pinch puncture....so what. You fix it. If you ping a few spokes....so what. You replace them. Granted, you should take it easy and maybe avoid the downhill routes, but in my opinion the most important...