Recent content by Crankwinder

Who are "They", the cat's parents? I guess you mean those enquirers like me who are merely "Finding their (electric) wheels". You may be an "Esteemed pedelecer", but I'm afraid your reply is no help at all. Are you not aware that 'start assist' is a thing - and can be found on an increasing...

I've been crawling over Fazua's website and it looks like their latest 'Ride 60' system (but none hitherto) has what Eddy needs, namely a 'Boost' function (see p30 of this pdf manual) that provides up to 4 seconds of 450W power from standstill. That should be enough to start up any hill, while...

Maybe. It depends on what you had in mind exactly. A requirement to hide the battery inside the frame however, seems to rule out conversions.

Eddy's really looking for a ready-made E-bike with battery discreetly stowed INSIDE the frame, not a conversion.

He's a big guy, but mostly bone and muscle.

This time I really am 'asking for a friend'. My friend - let's call him 'Eddy', not his real name but he'd like that - is fundamentally a very strong rider, who regularly rides more than 100 miles in a day and goes like a locomotive on flat or undulating roads (where the rest of us form up like...

Apparently what I want is specifically allowed in Germany and called 'Start Assist'. I received this informative reply to my post on another forum: Shucks. It seems like I'd be wasting my money on a Bafang programming lead and my time on trying to get it to do what I want. Unless someone on...

By "standard KT controllers" do you mean the controller that is neatly integrated already with the Bafang mid-drive? I'm afraid I wouldn't be happy about extracting that and swapping it for some other, separate controller, although there is space provided in the battery receiver for one...

Same one. I didn't think there were any other 250W Bafang mid-drives currently available (but I guess there must once have been a BBS01A).

Thanks for that information. I didn't imagine for one moment that it would be possible to limit the throttle to a different speed than pedalling, but I can see that if it's limited to 4mph, the throttle becomes legal as a walk-assist control. That'll be perfect - even better than my idea of a...

I've recently electrified my wife's bike. I did my research and fitted a Bafang 250W mid-drive motor with 40T Lekkie 'bling-ring', whilst upgrading the rear shifting to 11-speed in order to get a low-as-easily-possible bottom gear via an 11-51T cassette. It's great, she can now ride up anything...

But that's an American site that only talks about the 750W BBS02 and gives a quite different answer (53mm with Bafang chainring) from the drawing courtesy of Whoosh above (50mm). So is the BBS02 fatter by 3mm? Are the people who say that BBS01 and 02 are outwardly identical, plain wrong? Then...