Recent content by Madness

Thanks flecc for confirming this. My plan is to put a small battery about 2Ah for storage and then run devices (im thinking might be able to run lights as well) form this, ill have to make something to step down the voltage but that shouldn't be to hard. The bikes going into the shop...

Its makeing power for sure. At weekends i ride without batterys and the lights come on on the thumb throttle so it must be coming from the wheel. Its just a ebay kit that i have fitted. Ill get a multimeter on it once i have it back on the road, went to go out today for a ride and had a...

How strange, i was thinking about this today. I have a converted bike which i use as a e-bike for work and on weekends i simple remove the battery and use it as a normal bike. Im going on longer and longer rides on the weekends and thinking about using my iphone/gps for routing. This as...

oh well, When i first converted my bike i didn't want a throttle to prove the point that its not a lazy persons bike. Now i come to realize that the pedelec is not for me, it kicks in when i dont want it to and wont do jack when im doing 15mph and hit the only hill on the way to work when...

Could anyone point me in the direction of where i can get a thumb throttle for my e-bike, it came with a twist throttle but as with most bikes i have twist shift gears. I have looked on eBay but the its gonna cost about £15 and i'm not a fan of the shipping times from the east. Can anyone...

Im thinking about giving it a go until i worked out the math and the numbers rolled in that i would need something like a total of 60Ah of batterys (working out on my avg watt hours per mile to and from work) which in lead acid would not be light! The other huge down side would be the 320...

I know its rolling round to summer but this is england we are talking about here and even worse.... norfolk.... so Im new to the whole using the bike most of the time thing. What so you guys (and gals) recommend in the way of waterproofs?

If i was doing another bike (which im thinking of at some point once this one has paid for itself) i will be looking at an alien kit or one of the 1kw kits. I know they are well over the uk/eu spec but if used with in reason i think it would be fine.

I bought one of the 250w kits from these people. Tho the kit is now working well i had issues, the connections were wired wrong from the factory the bag was damaged and the wheel wasnt' true. Getting hold of them was not easy, 2 days to get a reply on email and never anyone to answer the...

Ill keep an eye out for you around norwich aaannndddyyy. I was looking at one of the 1kw kits myself but got a 250w.

it is true of Marathon Plus tyres, i just fittted mine 2 weeks ago. Its hard to see but they have an arrow. Rick

Hi, I have noticed that brushless motor controllers seem to come in 60' and 120'. Dose anyone know the difference? Can these controllers be interchanged with/without a rewire of the hal sensors? Thanks Rick

Thanks flecc. I have managed to get it working and spinning nice with no nasty noises. It now spins a nice 19mph (no load) and only pulls 9A from the battery's. I have emailed the company giving them the option of getting it fixed locally instead of having the wheel shipped back for...

Hi, Im new to the whole e-bike thing but i have been reading the forums for a while. I have just bought myself a kit off of ebay to convert my normal bike to an e-bike. From shipping i test fitted it and tested it with the bike upside down, on the first turn of the throttle the wheel...