Recent content by stargazer30

That's by design on the Orbea. The idea is to assist and they assume a decent level of fitness. My Fazua boardman ADV is the same. Unless you set it to rocket mode, you need to put some work in and I come back tired and sweaty after a 30-40mile ride. That's fine though as I wanted a bike for...

Thats based on my own experience with the Yose and Gtech electrics. Both just plug together and you don’t need to know anything about the electrics really. The controllers are part of the battery mount on both. Pretty much plug and play, or erm ride! I’d never touched a bike mechanically...

I’ve done two DIY hub conversions and bought two 2k+ name brand ebikes trying to find my ideal bike. The name brand Bosch/cube, Fazua/Boardman mid drive bikes I bought are better than the DIY bikes. Better range, better ride, nicer in nearly every way. But… they both cost around 2.5k...

All the rear wheel hub kits I've seen are for QR/skewer style axels. My Boardman MTX was QR too. If the bike is using a through axel you'll have probs. TBH though for an enduro bike that's more mid drive territory anyways as you'll need lots of torque at low cadence. I'd be looking at the...

Hi I did take more pictures. If you send me a PM I can send them to you. I actually re-did the conversion after a while using a Yose rear wheel hub kit off ebay for £350. In some ways its a better conversion as you don't need to swap out the bottom bracket or mess with the front chain ring...

Word of warning, the trail destroyer comes with Suntour XCM 120mm coil forks. These forks are utter utter rubbish and are not fit for mtb purposes. I am 90kg and with them set on the lowest setting with my full weight on them they move about 20mm. So they offer literally no suspension at...

I have retro fitted a gtech v1 controller and bb speed sensor to a geared boardman mtx bike. Pedal and speed are not in direct proportion. I am sure the gtech setup measures cadence speed as on my bike the assist cuts off at a different speed depending on the gear it’s in. Depending on gear...

Does anyone know if there is a controller out there that can be setup like the Gtech controller? The Gtech BB sensor and controller is pretty smart. It varies the current and max speed by cadence. When you first pedal it gives full power but as the pedals speed up the power drops off. The...

The control panel in the pic is the ezego version of 500c display used on the bafang kits. Ezego supply two versions of the display. A mono chrome one and a colour version. Unfortunately the cheaper Bafang colour 500c display has a slightly different plug so you need to buy the colour display...

Enjoy . If it’s anything like my ezego TD, it’ll go around the planet on l3 and below. It’s only l4 and 5 where it eats battery. Not sure if you’re on it already but there’s an ezego Facebook group too.

All finished, single front crank on and wiring tidied up.

Chain back on and rear gears setup. As I suspected the front double crank set is no good now, the Gtech BB has pushed it too far out. I can use the smaller ring but the outer has a bad chain line. I have a single crank set on order so will be ditching the front mech and going 1x. Still its...

The motor wheel arrived today. A few hiccups as its my first time building up a wheel. Had to modify my cassette tool to go over the wiring on the electric wheel and getting the tyre onto it required a large vocab of swear words! Not complaining though as it fitted the bike fine and a bench...

The Gtech Speed sensor BB arrived today. I tested it on our V1 Gtech City to check it works and its compatible. Once that was done I installed installed it on the boardman. It went smoothly, the only problem was getting the old bottom bracket out, which required a breaker bar and a lot of...

Between COVID and Brexit its hard getting hub motor wheels imported. Most the sites I looked at were either not delivering to the UK, had long delivery times (months) or stupidly high postage costs making it unviable :-(. I've managed to find one now though, Chinese motor still but UK stock.