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As most of your braking is on the front wheel and you appear happy with the rest of the bike, have you considered just fitting a fork with a disc brake? Might be more straightforward than replacing a whole bike and will possibly work out cheaper too. There are any number of cheap steel MTB...

OK. I'm pulling the trigger on one of these. I have a 48v battery on my bike, so my original plan was to use that rather than have extra batteries. But Bafang seem to only make a 36v hub. What would you do? There are lots of cheaper wheels that are 48v kits like this one...

Just to clear up any confusion, I am very happy with the service and quality of my Whoosh kit. Really top notch. Saying that I hadn't met them IRL and if things go wrong with Internet purchases then paying with a credit card can protect you against some things. Walk softly, and carry a big...

I'm really delighted with Whoosh, btw. It was the fact that they posted here so much, and even gave advice on things that were nothing to do with them. Still bought on a credit card! I wanted to do a chargeback in case they turned out to be charlatans. Would that work for you? They are in...

I have only had one so far. She has an Asgard shed, supplied and fitted by me, in what would be her parking space. Cost about a grand, plus a planning application. I would not allow any bike (motorised or manual) to be stored in a communal area of any rented property. The one that caught fire...

I refuse to click on a link to the Daily Mail. You won't get a reasonable idea of what actually happened. What I would say is while it's true that some people end up with kits that catch fire, you can't stop them from trying to do conversions when they have little or no knowledge of this kind...

That's bringing back awful memories of bottle dynamos in the rain.

Yes. I think I'm taking a punt. I will put it off for a couple of days - if anyone has a link that will save a bit of money, I'd appreciate it!

I am really pleased with my Whoosh rear hub on my eBike. Living up a very steep path as I do I would struggle to carry the bike but walk mode and a ramp by my stairs makes it easy. I have been using a wheelbarrow to cart heavy things up and down until now, and I have seen Bafang wheelbarrow hub...

Spend more money and get a new kit, it will probably be rubbish. If it's old, you will be spending at least what you've paid on a new battery. Projects like this are fine if you get the bikes free or really cheap, but £200 isn't that cheap.

There is not loads of clearance if you want to keep those mudguards. The braking is only one part of the issue. Hit a pothole at 20mph in one of those, and see what happens. There are much better bikes to do a conversion on, honestly. I would much rather have an MTB with a suspension fork for...

Oh, and the reason I didn't buy a mid drive even though this was the bike I was going for is I thought it would sit very low. I reckon you could bash it on a kerb.

My MTB currently has a DWG22C rear hub motor. The plan is to transplant the wheel into a Pashley Mailstar. The design changed, but many of those Pashleys have derraileur hangers. Mine will be respaced to 135mm for the hub wheel. It handles better with weight over the front wheel, so the...

For many years (long before electric bikes were a thing!) I lived on a boat. I had a trailer. It was called Helena. Helena Handcart. Was converted from an old Trek kiddie trailer. It took up a huge amount of room on a boat, and was a PITA on towpaths. I regularly carried cassette toilets and...

A very nice job! I like the reuse of old doors. While I understand your thinking, there is no harm in being pragmatic about these things. Besides, I really want a bike shed. It will mean less faffing of a morning on my way to work.

Exactly! It will be at the end of my bike storage unit so aesthetically no worse than a bike shelter. If there was a fire, it would be in its own building and I'd just lose a bike, a shed and an old fridge. Also, the charger and battery would be inside an insulated box for winter.

Why not? It would cost me to dispose of the fridge, and it would also cost me to build an insulated box to protect the battery from extreme cold. A fridge is quite a good insulated box. Seems like a no-brainer! Many thanks. That's hilarious when you explain the joke. I buy sodium chloride to...

Very nice @matthewslack - I see that like where I live theft is not much of an issue. Is it enough to keep the bikes dry?

Hello folks I'm taking the plunge and building a dedicated shed for my new Whoosh converted MTB. It will be in the form of a tunnel made of cladding with a metal gate at the end for weather protection but also ventilation. I have a small, dead fridge which I'm going to use as a thoroughly...