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My pass incorporates my ID and is an annual pass that I have to apply for each year but is provided to me free and allows me to travel free on all the routes that the company I worked for cover. I chose to go to Exeter St Davids as that is the furthest point I can get to free on that part of the...

Exeter to Torquay on Cycle route 2 Earlier in the year I had booked a Hotel deal for a two night weekend stay (Saturday and Sunday) in Torquay, with the intention of using my 2015 sDuro as transport. I was lucky to be able to keep my travel cost down by making use of my free travel pass as a...

The joys of canbus. Making keeping an older bike going so much harder to the point where most people will not bother.

One thing I note is how light the person is. My daughter is currently using my old rear hub Oxygen Emate to commute to work and is a similar weight. On a few practice rides we had together I was struck by how with my daughter riding the bike the performance and hill climbing ability of the old...

I would reiterate chris_n comment above that it would be very unwisw to attacj a healthy battery to your bike as the fault could be transferred to the good battery and effectively brick it. Look at comment #150 in linked thread...

A continuing repetition of my ride from Godalming to Haslemere exploring and refining my off road connection from Gibbet Hill to Haslemere Railway Station. I am continuing my rides from Godalming to Haslemere with two trips this week exploring the connecting tracks from Gibbet Hill to Haslemere...

I think we are basically singing from the same hymn sheet. I was just thinking of a buyer with very little ebike knowledge where a better brand and by that I am not thinking expensive, probably quite the opposite for a first bike, would offer a bike with tried and tested components, not...

I take your point about a lot of bikes using the same generic parts from China, however I am not so sure that Brand and/or supplier/shop make no difference. All mechanical devices will need mending at some point, but a brand like Woosh for example, (I have never owned one but people on hear say...

Yes esuark, I have also ridden the byways on a motorbike, but my crank drive was wonderful in the spectacular terrain. The views and the tracks are tremendous. Puts a smile on your face.

Godalming to Haslemere off road A really great ride with a variety of off road tracks from easy car width tracks to rooty narley technical single tracks with steep accents and descents. A beautiful track beside a lake on the way to Thursley Traversing the punchbowl still on the way to...

So in essence saneagle as my battery has weakened I have hopefully become fitter and also very experienced at managing how I ride my bike in relation to my battery consumption to essentially mask its decline. I still think its holding up very well.

Taking the thread a bit off topic by talking about battery longevity, but it is an interesting topic. As I said above I rode to my friends house on Thursday, a 15 and half mile ride, probably about 70% off road and 30% on road. A climbing route from Godalming rising 774 feet to its high point...

I take your point about what the OP has said and that a battery seeming to perform as well as it did when new after 200 charges seems unlikely. However, I found a very similar thing with my own Yamaha battery. When commenting about its excellent performance in my reviews I made the point that I...

I agree with Bonzo Banana, some good old fashioned empirical data would be useful. I strongly suspect the vast majority of ebike battery fires relate to cheaper ebikes and cheaper batteries. Of course any product can fail but I think it is the ones in the lowest price bracket that would be the...

I am not quite as skeptical about what has been claimed, although I accept that nearly everyone can be prone to some exaggeration at times. I have been documenting the use of my Yamaha hard tail Haibike since I bought it in March of 2015 to commute to work and back. It came with a 400Wh...

On my Yamaha the mileage is stored in the motor not the head unit/display.

Test riding as many possibles as I could worked really well for me, and has meant that I still really like the bikes I finally bought. It also showed me that the bike I thought I was going to really like was actually not for me when I rode it and another quite different one which I had not short...

I am sure the 11 speed matthewslack changed to with a 51 tooth bottom gear cog in the cassette is very nice but he could have gone the cheapskate route and put a wide range 9 speed cassette on with a 50 tooth bottom gear, all be it with wide gaps between the gears.

I regularly take my 2015 Haibike Yamaha on local trains . I have had no issues accessing stations through manned barriers or from Guards on the trains. A few years ago I took my Oxygen Emate on a train into central London Waterloo terminus, and had no issues getting to London or travelling back...

For me when I was commuting to work the addition of a bright flashing rear light made an immediate difference to the way cars approached and overtook me. I was already wearing a high viz cycle jacket and had panniers with reflective sections, but the re chargeable flashing light definitely made...