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  1. marwigan

    Raleigh Dover [panasonoc mark 2 crank drive] failed while riding along and now Controller refuse to light.

    mmm, worth considering Used to to put vinyl glove on my Lafrees controller switch to keep dry. The newer Panasonic ones at least look waterproof. Thanks
  2. marwigan

    Raleigh Dover [panasonoc mark 2 crank drive] failed while riding along and now Controller refuse to light.

    Curious developments with the 'dead Dover' battery/ies. As it is I have another Dover, and this is happily working with 10A and 16A batteries but it too refuses to work with the 8A. Now this 8Ah charges up to 5 lights, when you press the test button for min. of 4 secs it shows with the 4...
  3. marwigan

    Raleigh Dover [panasonoc mark 2 crank drive] failed while riding along and now Controller refuse to light.

    Afternoon I wonder if the forum may [y.k.who] knows - so the bike i use every day for shopping and errands in general has just ceased to function with the handlebar controller refuses to light up. Cleaned the battery terminals and tried different batteries. Quite dead. Stripped some crank...
  4. marwigan

    Kalkhoff/Panasonic charger

    Evening all, I've not read every detail here but sounds typical of the quandary's one gets with the old electric bike from time to... Anyway my 'cure all' solution - and it worked when i bought a second hand Panasonic battery [Raleigh Dover] 18Ah job that had its own 'rapid' -and noisy-super...
  5. marwigan

    Pedal fallen off (Bosch motor)

    Common problem; let me guess tis the left hand pedal/arm. happened a lot with my panasonic motor Giants etc too. It;s because the anticlockwise motion of the left side is always potentially 'trying to undo' itself. Solution is to tighten crank bolt blooming hard perhaps with a drop of...
  6. marwigan

    Raleigh Veto Trail [FHM] now juddering and cutting out

    Yes; UPDATE - seem to have fixed it. 'PMA [branded] electrical cleaner' from a motor factors aka 'contact cleaner' is an inflammable aerosol which i sprayed on the front contacts - which had looked alright - and left it to dry off. Also the battery contacts. Hardly daring to hope applied pedal...
  7. marwigan

    Raleigh Veto Trail [FHM] now juddering and cutting out

    Er no, not yet, thanks. I saw somewhere else on the forum recently, that some 'contact cleaner' eg on net I see 'Maplin's' * might be worth a try. I'm away from home at the moment but will certainly try this on the front connector by fr. drop-out, as waggled everything else about without...
  8. marwigan

    Raleigh Veto Trail [FHM] now juddering and cutting out

    Must thank you, two x forum members for the replies above; where were my manners? Had forgotten I'd posted but now thinking about this again- will keep forum informed
  9. marwigan

    Raleigh Veto Trail [FHM] now juddering and cutting out

    Hi everyone interested, My to-date quite beloved Raleigh Velo has started misbehaving regularly. 2-3yrs old, battery good, it is going along when many start 'catching'. then front wheel judders as though on/off/on/off, once or twice turns the handlebar controller off. Previously, switching off...
  10. marwigan

    Aldi electric bike special buys

    Huh? Aldi not quite an anagram of Lidl..... pleeese....
  11. marwigan

    Capacity measurement of bosch batteries 2017

    I'll say before anyone else; how useful is this, do we really want to know and who is to say what's 'good and bad'? I'll part answer , a seller and buyer second hand may benefit, but y'll need a baseline of what the normal variation from the mean....yadda, yadda [this is not theory; i've had...
  12. marwigan

    Giant La Free - key problem.

    Update; all it took was to up-end the frame and lo! in the frame sits the lock held in by two cross-head screws. Easily removed and lock with them.
  13. marwigan

    Giant La Free - key problem.

    Oh! I think that has to be right - inserted from above or below with a locking collar- below i'd guess or any scally might 'change it' for you. Thanks for your time
  14. marwigan

    Batteries too expensive!!

    I see my old friends [not literally] at HollandBikeShop sell the Bosch battery to the extent I bit the bullet with the prospect of the pound nosediving and ordered a 400 Powerpack spare for my Raleigh Motus [having very carefulll checked the serial nos], and indeed not being able to easily...
  15. marwigan

    Raleigh Velo Trail - first impressions

    Another old post- nevertheless I have one of these and it is very eager and frankly fast, quiet and impressive all round in its performance, and which is my shopper in Wigan mostly, so not tried hills. i do note occasionally it makes a terrible grinding noise almost as if the throttle's stuck...
  16. marwigan

    Giant La Free - key problem.

    Resurrection of old post; I need to change the battery lock between two Lafrees. At least scrap one and switch the other. My 3sp i shall probably write off [see different post]. and the one I like - a four speed has never had a working lock as i bought it at a charity shop with no key and did...
  17. marwigan

    squeaky rear brake on Giant Lafree

    Update ; have ordered some SRBG off internet as my LBS guy was a little distracted- staff not turned up, Christmas next month. As ad [onebay] said 'brakes, believe it or not, need grease'. The scrape, literally, I could've got into can easily be imagined; bike consigned to shed till lubed and...
  18. marwigan

    squeaky rear brake on Giant Lafree

    Crickey, thank you very much indeed, [so we are not alone - phew], M
  19. marwigan

    squeaky rear brake on Giant Lafree

    hi, very cold out today but the old [5 speed] Lafree nipping to and fro with my shopping. Noticed the rear continental type hub/drum brake squeaking a bit- what's that about? I have had it in bits before when changing tyres/oiling rear mech but don't see any thing that looks like 'doing the...
  20. marwigan

    Lafree motor playing up/ slipping in third gear

    Thought my earlier interlocutors deserved an update; I've not done anything yet as- all the usual reasons but mainly cos i don't need to get the specified 3 speeder back on the road particularly quickly as using my 5 speed- how much easier to get the rear wheel off [open frame later model] for a...