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Hi folks, A couple of years ago I did a rear hub drive commuter bike conversion, detailed here: https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/q128c-25mph-fast-hybrid-commuter-build-ride-report.29244/ I ended up with a 36v rear hub motor running at 48v thanks to the excellent advice from the forum...

Quick question: I did a longish ride yesterday and when I arrived back home my LCD was showing one out of four bars of charge. But when I pulled the battery out and checked it using the button on the side it lit up three out of four LEDs. Any guesses on which is more likely to be accurate? For...

OK, possibly a silly question, but I'm going to go ahead anyway :-) There's one big hill that I have to climb on my commute, and I always wonder what the best setting is to climb it, from the point of view of not stressing my battery/motor. My vague understanding is that the motor likes to be...

I'm trying to figure what male cable connector I need to plug into the female connector on an Eclipse Whale battery pack. Here's a pic of the female connector: I ended up not using the provided frame mount (which this connector would normally...err...connect to) so I need to wire the...

Executive summary: here's a pic of the more-or-less finished bike: 25mph on the flat @ ~600W, 20kg bike weight. Warning: long post comming up :-) This is mostly a brain dump of everything that I did for my recent build in the hope that it will be useful to somebody else considering the...

Hi, I posted a message a few days ago: http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/which-kit-12-mile-range-20mph-hub-motor-city-bike.28773/ and have received a couple of helpful replies, but my follow up message has been "awaiting moderation" for several days. Do I have to do something special...

Hi folks, Another "which kit" question. The mission is a ~24 mile round trip which I'd like to be able to do at ~20 mph with minimal assistance (i.e. arriving not out of breath and not having to take a shower). No significant hills - the largest grade is probably about 5%. Leaning towards a...