Recent content by Trex 850

None whatsoever !,, have used the bike every day for work and the occasional trip to my dads place in Harlesden, round trip of 22 miles and the battery still shows 2 green lights -should be good for close to 30 miles total distance I reckon,and now the weather has warmed up,I've noticed an...

Update pt2 ! After a bit of research and thanks to a lot of help and advice from the pedelec forum users,decided to get a bottle battery installed,rather than getting my existing battery box re-celled, found a company called Kinisys based in Borehamwood -not too far from my house and once I...

Just finished a round trip of 15 miles on the Alien and have to say apart from two morons on drop bar racers who wished me dead,the majority of cyclists I met today were courteous,and one pulled along side me and commented that with the saddle bags i had on the rear carrier- it looked like a...

Only thing that slightly puts me off is the battery case,otherwise, that looks the biz !!.

If that's the case,its looking more likely that the bike is totally legal and not a hot rod !!! :p

Thanks d8veh, just needed to hear this, now roll on sunny days ! ,will be getting a new battery on Saturday.

Just remembered I've got an old Iphone 3gs with some cycle apps on it including several bike speed /distance toys on it-will try it mounted on the bars and see if I get the same readings as the cat eye.

In essence your saying that with the correct bike battery,the bike will be then legal- 15.5mph?

Update : Made up a power lead from a 12s 5000mah lipo pack (Turnigy Blue 40C) to the controller via the bike power connector with an inline on/off switch and 30A fuse- powered up and eureka, it all works !, throttle works as it should and so does the pedelec function- on the road the cats eye...

Thanks again, looks like I might get some new batteries from Woosh, very informative web site and nice prices !, also Eclipse bikes will have a look in- seems a lot has changed since my last electric bike..

That's excellent advice ,thanks !, dimensions are 334mm x 151mm x43mm-has integral rear light and on/off switch on l/hand side.. How much inc postage for that- also have looked at the bottle types and if it improves the handling may consider that also.

One of my other hobbies is rc helicopters,,would it be possible to rig a 36v 5ah battery pack just so I can definitely rule out the bike battery as the main culprit- i do have testing equipment but only for 24v- could the battery be rebuilt and where would I get a replacement from locally?..

Its a rack mounted battery..

Hi,haven't posted for nearly 3 yrs !!!,, had a change of direction and bought myself a Boardman Comp as my last electric bike- Currie i zip and powered by 24v sla batteries kinda made me give up the whole electric scene !,,anyhow,got the urge to try electric bikes again and purchased an Alien...

Got decorating to do, hopefully will get down to Hampstead Heath in the afternoon with a couple of new cycling buddies- looks like I may have started a trend in my area as I've recently noticed more ebike's on the road :D ,,,