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Its horses for courses. Using my 2015 Yamaha Haibike to commute to work and back I really appreciate having a battery that I can take off the bike easily so that I can bring it in the house when I get home. This has in no small part contributed to me to keeping my battery in really good...

Yes I do commute off road throughout the year, but I am a shift worker which helps with daylight. So in the Winter roughly half my shifts start in the afternoon meaning a daylight off road commute to work in the late morning to middle afternoon. I also have some so called middle shifts starting...

Well done Andy and Katy.

Good to see an off road commute. Mine is 12 to 14 miles mostly off road to work and then road back in Surrey but I have to do a bit of road work to get from my house to the beginning of the off road route. My round trip is 22 to 24miles, so a fair bit less than yours. I use a Haibike sDuro...

My mate got hold of a chok block style 4 way connector off ebay like the one in the link. He is competent with electrical components but essentially this was more about his ability to solder the wires inside the battery case where they would not easily break and waterproofing with silicone...

It is now over a year since I replaced the connectors an my battery and charger and the battery has powered the bike for 2104 miles and looks very capable of powering the bike a lot further still. A few other people have now added to this quite obscure thread after falling victim to the same...

11,000 Miles, (small statistics update) I passed 11,000 miles on the 1st of May 2019 Cassette and chain have now completed 566 miles since 9th of January 2019. The Chain ring has now completed 2572 miles since February 2018. Tyres: They have now covered 5436 miles since 5th of January 2017...

"robust electronic 14-speed hub gear Rohloff E-14 with Gates belt drive, an enormous gear range of up to 520% performance and extremely low maintenance requirements" So they say, at a price of course!

I think VFR400 knows his technical stuff. Me as they say, "I know nothing". My first electric bike that I still own and use is a 2011 Oxygen Emate City that was supplied to me de-restricted. I think all this meant was that a loop of wire had been disconnected . This bike has a simple on/off...

Grist to the mill. You might argue that if you knew absolutely nothing about electric bikes their best buy recommendation motor battery and display combination of a bike with a Bosch Active line + with an intuvia display and 500Wh battery is one of the best crank drive combinations for general...

The type and number of electric bikes I am seeing has varied from when I started riding one in 2011, with at the start not many about and generally of the Chinese generic variety of rear or front hub design with the battery behind the seat post, but now I am seeing generally more electric bikes...

I've loved riding mine largely completely under the radar and that Which? are writing an article at all tells me that they are becoming much more mainstream and my days of glorious anonymity may be coming to the end. I am seeing many more now tethered at the local super market, on the road and...

They tested 15 motor/battery size / display combinations, eight being Bosch and all as far as I could see crank drive set ups. This may just reflect the dominance of Bosch in the market place. Their top combination was the Bosch Active Line+ - with Intuvia display and 500Wh battery. The worst...

That is interesting flecc. I have used footpaths and pedestrian underpasses with care when riding away from Guildford railway station to avoid a particularly nasty roundabout that is quite hard to negotiate in a car let alone a bicycle. The key to riding on a pavement is to ride slowly and...

Super Sub, the tale continues..... I have used my super sub £100 Oxygen to ride to work and back yesterday and today. Such a comfortable and relaxing bike to ride on my 20 mile B road return trip. I spend most of my time in top gear cruising along at around 20mph in maximum assist. When I got...

A good old fashioned de restricted throttle used with care can really help when negotiating railway stations and trains with a heavy ebike. A whiff of throttle will allow the bike to keep pace alongside you on those steep underpass ramps to access the platform. Before they put lifts in that...

It is great to get free battery charges, but in reality the cost of charging the battery is negligible, it is the cost of a replacement battery that is the main cost of keeping our beloved ebikes on the road.

Going through a Purple Patch at the moment Getting closer to that illusive 11,000 miles having covered 10,960 now. 22 mile return trip to work. 12 off road and 10 on. Stunning Easter weather. I do have to work hard sometimes, but not today, set off for work at about 9:45, did what I had to...

I had to pop into work on Friday with no need to stay and used my Yamaha Haibike to enjoy my 14 mile cross country route to work. I plugged it in to my charger straight away when I got to work, did the small task required and had a cup of tea and a chat in all about 40 minutes. This re charged...

After overcoming the anti tamper screws to open up my Yamaha battery to replace a broken charger connector I think that the cheapest approach when your battery starts to die would be to carefully re cell it. I will find out when that time comes however I am very impressed with the longevity of...