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    Marathon Plus disappointment

    marathon plus I should have read this thread BEFORE the weekend, and I may have been a bit sharper about remembering to pack my tools and puncture kit...but I didnt! with my wife on her new Nano Brompton, we set of on a 34 mile Herts trip, and all went well with her grinning from ear to...
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    nano brompton2

    thanks for that Flecc...I sort of knew that tickling and 'pinkness' being a bit like fish and chips.... went together cheers barryc ps...any further thoughts on my battery questions please????
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    nano brompton2

    I have some pics Daniel, but will take some more of the details....I know that there has been some advice recently about uploading pics, but I have never been successful... any further advice to send from Picasa3 to forum page thanks folks barryc
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    nano brompton2

    Eureka! things have finally come to some fruition with the electricwheelcompany...my conversion kit for my wife's Brompton was ordered at the begining of July, and we finally went down to Marleborough to pick up the kit this week... the whole thing has been undermined by the lack of any...
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    nano brompton

    thanks for all the extra gen on Andrew Hamilton... an email says that the wheel/fork build up is done in Israel, but I personally am not too happy with the radial spoke arrangement...just basic physics would suggest that a powered hub could put some nasty torque through an 'unprepared'...
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    nano brompton

    hi folks.. as the original proposer of this thread, I am fascinated in the twist and turns it has taken, and also about just how much knowledge is 'out there' the latest take is Freedom ebikes offer of the nano conversion, and as Tony at electricwheel never seems to be there to take a...
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    nano brompton

    I am amazed how patient you guys are, as you seemingly are continuously having to re-invent the wheel, for us folk new to the world of e-products...and then finding the time, or rather 'making' the time to answer everybody so fully.... so may I pose another question that was sort of set by...
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    nano brompton

    dear folks.. thank you SO much for all your very useful info... basically we have 2 Bromptons as well as 2 fairly classy suspension bikes, and the main use is weekly/fortnightly country rides of about 30/35 miles...we are 69/68 respectively, so any further is usually vetoed heavily by the 68...
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    nano brompton

    thanks for that quickie Flecc would you recommend that I back out, and as well as the appalling communication, the lithium battery debate is also a bit scary...2 years max., and then another £395! and there I was thinking of all the road tax I would save! would it be better to hold...
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    nano brompton

    hi folks.. another newbie, taking my first steps.... anybody have much experience with the nano conversion for bromptons...after the rave reviews in A2B I have taken the plunge and ordered a motor from the electricwheelcompany, but as well as the steep cost (£750), the whole outfit seems...