Cytronex tips

[Pedalo]

Pedalo,

I am glad it all turned out ok. Mine took about 1hr 15mins this morning to charge but then my round trip commute to work is only 10 miles. It does seem to make the bike fly more if you charge just before you cycle.

Sounds like your battery is fine. I too was worried when I purchased my 18 month old Cytronex re the battery. I think NiMh batteries are probably a safer bet and more forgiving to a little abuse than the newer Li-Ion ones.

Like you I am thrilled with my Cytronex and quite frankly if you can find a good second hand one they are a bargain. I am not sure I would want to pay £1400 for an equivalent new one though.

That said I have started looking at Bromptons

This whole bike/ebike thing is so addictive and I am having so much fun.

PS broke my record last night and got home in 22 mins

Regards

Jerry

Yes the bike is noticably livlier on a freshly charged battery. I have a longish niggling hill near the start of my journey. I surprised a poor chap on a nice looking road bike who was riding in race position (and in serious cyclist atire) up this hill when I easily cruised past him - Great fun!

£1400 is a lot to pay for a new bike. I wouldn't pay it myself but if my company was running the cycle to work scheme I probably would have. In fact my company are talking about introducing it next year and I may well upgrade to a new one then. I don't know if there are any kind of limits on how often you can buy a new bike under the scheme but I'm hoping I could upgrade every couple of years without too much personal expenditure.

 

[jerrysimon]

I think the period is the same as the interest free loan period i.e. 18 months.

The limit for each purchase is also £1000 I think.

Regards

Jerry

 

[Barnowl]

Yes the bike is noticably livlier on a freshly charged battery. I have a longish niggling hill near the start of my journey. I surprised a poor chap on a nice looking road bike who was riding in race position (and in serious cyclist atire) up this hill when I easily cruised past him - Great fun!

£1400 is a lot to pay for a new bike. I wouldn't pay it myself but if my company was running the cycle to work scheme

Just think though that poor chap on the nice looking road bike might have just cycled 20 miles. Mind you, fair do's, I'd have done the same

 

[Alex728]

£1400 is a lot to pay for a new bike.

I get these emails of "special offers" from places like Wiggle and from looking at them its perfectly possible the dude you overtook could well have spent much more on his . I know one guy at work spent £1300 on a MTB frame alone and then had to purchase the rest of the bits...

 

[flecc]

I know one guy at work spent £1300 on a MTB frame alone and then had to purchase the rest of the bits...

A whole frame! That's a bargain, have a look at this:

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