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It's me that called it a pedal sensor. I turn the pedals VERY slowly and the motor comes on at full power. No effort needed. It's great when you're tired.

I've never had a torque sensor. Both my Typhoon and my Tourer have simple pedal sensors. The Typhoon does indeed accelerate quite quickly but if I'm ever in slow moving traffic I just stick the power down to level 2 or 3. Living, as I do, in the hills, I find the simple pedal sensor a God send...

The real problem with passing a Lycra clad skelf on a light bike is, you just know that at the top of the hill, when it flattens out, he or she is going to flying passed you. One Lycra clad racing snake went flying passed me just before the top of a long hill. Once onto the flat he was soon out...

Hmm, what we need is a couple of unfit overweight chaps/chapesses riding them up the hill. Make it more like real life ebike world. ;)

I was in power level 5 all the time and the throttle was full open all the time. If I'm honest I thought the Woosh would have been slightly better than it was. However, I intend to try it again and maybe just let it go on throttle alone but it was slowing down below 6 mph when I started...

Yes, I've fitted one to my Kudos Typhoon. I bought : http://www.amazon.co.uk/M-Wave-One-4-All-Aluminium-Carrier-440174/dp/B00CXSVPP6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397508861&sr=8-1&keywords=M wave carrier Then I bought...

I took my wife's Santana CD to a longish climb this morning due to reading about the gear changing and hill climbing ability. The steepest bit of the hill is about 13 or 14 % according to Strava and my VDO bike computer. I'm about 82kg. The santana got up it but not on throttle alone I...

It probably means mopeds but if you stick your battery in a rucksack who would know it's an ebike? I've been right next to people with both my ebikes who never spotted it was anything different.

To be fair, it does sound like the motor is on all the way up the hill. Of course, that's not scientific as we don't know what the top speed is. On a personal basis, I'm not bothered about it one way or another. However in the interests of fair play. Oxygen and KTM need to send me a bike each...

Remember, we're closing the border in 2 years time. Judging by the state of the uk passport office, you'd best apply now if you need a renewal or we won't let you in. ;)

Just to lighten this thread a bit. A little tale of some, errrr, cheating I did today. I was in getting new glasses today, the optician started talking about cycling and strava and his favourite hill. He showed me strava on his phone and said " you can 'follow' me if you want" . 30 minutes...

Too late, I got in first. I'm Scottish, you know what we're like. The first hint of a freebie and we're right in there. ;)

OK, back on topic. When are my KTM and Oxygen bikes arriving? I'm in Central Scotland, we don't get long summers up here. ;) P.S the weather forecast for North Scotland tonight is ground frost.

OK, there's only one way to settle this. Both companies need to send me a bike for a month's trial. I'll report on here as to which one gets me up hills better. I've got plenty of hills to choose from: steep hills, shallow hills, long hills and short hills. ;)

My wife has a Woosh Santana CD. She's only ever used 1st and 2nd gear. I'll take it out next week to some hills and see how it performs against my Kudos Typhoon. The Typhoon will be faster up the hills but I'll find out how easily the Woosh goes up the same hills,

I was going to take offence at that statement, then I thought.......Naa you're right. :)

OK, I bought a Lezyne HV drive black mini pump. It came today so I thought I'd give it a try. I let the tyre right down on the Typhoon. The pump blew it up ok but it is harder work than my faithful Crivit mini foot pump. However it takes up much less space than the foot pump and it's now...

I've ordered a Lezyne mini pump from Amazon. It might come by the weekend. I'll let one of my tyres down and see how well it pumps it up.

The hose connection was what attracted me to Lezyne as well. I've tried cheaper mini pumps which clamp to the valve. One stuck so tightly to the valve, I hauled the valve right out of the tube. :(

Whilst out on my bikes I'm usually well packed down: spare battery, Crivit foot pump, tools, repair kits, spare tube and bottles of drinks. On the Tourer this isn't a problem but on the Typhoon I think I'm carrying too much. I've got a week long jaunt planned for the Typhoon and was thinking of...