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  1. pault

    Touring teething problems, extraction or remidial work?

    Thanks for the advice. The bikes are now in Malaga & I'm in the UK so I have to confirm with Decathon what is the next stage. It's tricky as both identical bikes bought/charged at the same time have behaved very differently. Trying to explain to them about the power read outs not relating to...
  2. pault

    Touring teething problems, extraction or remidial work?

    'only thing you can do is do what we say' 'No point in arguing or discussing' Are you having problems at home? I thought the whole point of forums was discussion? Thanks for the other constructive comments.
  3. pault

    Touring teething problems, extraction or remidial work?

    Yes for sure the 420 was part of the route and for sure there were many hills each day. We are mid-weights but did have 10kg of luggage each. However we never ran the bikes past power assistance level 3 (out of 6 power assisted options) and only on the toughest climbs, we cycled hard at all...
  4. pault

    Touring teething problems, extraction or remidial work?

    Thanks for your swift replies. Both batteries were charged each night (5 occasions) until they went to green, around 5hrs each. Bike ones battery which was used on the same occasions as bike twos failed daily whilst showing 4 bars and the meter never dropped below 4 even though the bike wouldn't...
  5. pault

    Touring teething problems, extraction or remidial work?

    Hi, just bought two new Decathlon Elops 900 bikes and cycled Madrid to Malaga. OK it was a risk on new bikes but its also a risk on old bikes! Came well prepared and fully charged (on the controller read out it showed max 6 bars) At 3 bars battery power (out of 6 bars) both bikes cut out and...