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My odo seems to have a mind of its own. Can anyone explain? It's the big LCD. I did some riding around for testing, then did a 14 mile ride. The odo showed 30km - plausible. I'd have expected about 27km. I did a ride of about 10 to 15 miles. Odo showed 60km - suspiciously high, but just about...

On my newly converted bike with TSDZ02 motor, I had a bit of a problem today. Every time I was going fast freewheeling down steep hills and went over a bump, I got an extreme rubbing noise, like when you get a twig under the mudguard, but every time I stopped to check it out, it disappeared just...

Today, I did the shakedown ride - about 35 km at an average speed of 20km/hr. It was down Ironbridge Gorge and back, mainly on trails, some exceptionally steep bits. Here are my thoughts, but please bear in mind that I'm comparing it with my normal bike, which is the best legal ebike you can get...

They're now on YouTube doing regular podcasts, and they've also included some of their older episodes in their channel, like this one with some electric bikes, so check out the latest on their channel if you like that sort of thing:

Hoverboards are all over Ebay - both new and used. I bought a couple of not working used ones for about £20 each. They have some useful parts in them. They both had good 36v batteries in. One of them was virtually brand new. It failed because of a dry solder joint in one of the controller's...

This might help with understanding. His summary seems to be that it's individual cell quality that leads to fires, though I only skipped through it so far:

Today, I had a dentist appointment 5 miles away. It takes a relaxed 20 minutes to get there, so I allow 30 minutes because I hate being late. Due to unusual circumstances, I had to stop abruptly in top gear after one mile. Unfortunately, I had set my throttle to be dependent on pedalling, so I...

Electric bike owners know this, but if you don't already have one are thinking about it, this might tell you something:

After it was mentioned in another thread, i decided to check out the bike storage at the local station, and I found some interesting things. here it is in a walkway near the station, sort of in the middle of nowhere without much security. station is in the background of 2nd photo:

This guy is generally quite reasonable. What he's saying here is generally right but most of his reasons why are way off, which is spreading all the misunderstandings and urban myths about the regulations, which you can see being repeated in the comments. The main points are that he says there's...

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This guy does a very good analysis of some recent events in USA. Basically, it shows the knee-jerk reaction to tragedy. People aren't too interested in facts, analysis or critical thinking. They just want things to be the way they want them. The event analysed was a crash between a woman on a...

There's often discussion about where to get suitable donor bikes. Here's something fairly new. The tip in Wrexham has a shop where they recycle any bikes brought to the tip. Other tips might have the same. See here at the end of the video (16:30). Also included is what's probably the most viewed...

Not perfect, but what do you expect for £600. I love bikes like this. Not so much as they come, but because every part is easily and cheaply upgradeable to make it into the bike you want. I thought the guy was a little unreasonable when he was scaring people with stories about ebike fires and...

This guy could have one: https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/i-did-2364-watts-wattbike-world-record-holder-challenges-anyone-to-beat-his-200m-benchmark

I just looked at the spares on the Eleglide site and they sell bare motors for £115 and complete motor wheels for about £132. I didn't want to enter all my details to get the shipping cost, but hopefully it's not too much. You get a £25 discount code if you sighn up to the newsletter. They also...

The question was about the different versions here: https://bafang-e.cn/en/oem-area/components/component/motor/fm-g070250350d/ n0 is the no-load max speed and nT is the optimal efficiency speed. The only thing you need to worry about is matching the motor's nT to your planned modal riding...

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Maybe it got mentioned before, but I didn't hear anything. It seems that Gtech no longer are making ebikes, and they sold their last stock on Ebay. That might be a bit awkward for people who have those bikes and will need replacement batteries some time in the future. They still have the V2...