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I agree. Simple stuff. Try to charge your battery to full close to when you are going to use your bike. Do not charge your battery to full and leave it that way too long. Do not use your battery until it is empty and leave it that way. Store your battery indoors at 50% to 70% ish...

I have not kept count of the charge cycles. Maybe my type of commuting is quite kind to the battery. Stored indoors at around 60% charge. Charged back to full close to setting off for work and back to full at work and then ridden home. Probably my maths is wrong but based on using 70% of a full...

My 2015 Yamaha 400Wh battery is now in its 6th year and working on the face of it just like it did when new. By that I mean the display shows me that I use exactly the same amount of my batteries capacity on my routes to work and back now that I did when the bike was new. I am very impressed...

Holiday transport! Just back from a staycation holiday in Torquay and took my 2011 Oxygen to park at the beach and enable me to go on a sandwich run to and from the beech hut. Lots of fresh air and swimming in the surprisingly warm sea.

The two throttles I have on a pair of old Oxygen ebikes are variable twist grip types that can be varied, so variable throttles should be possible and I have found to be very useful. I can vary the power from the throttle from very little to all of it and any amount between the two. This...

Something wrong for this to happen to a new bike. It happened to me when I had a worn out rear hub. Likewise when the whole drive train was getting very worn out. Completely stopped when I replaced the drive train and included a narrow wide front chain ring, and I have a hard tail mountain...

Ironically, I had considered fitting a heavy duty downhill tyre instead of the marathon plus. To be fair to the marathon plus it has not been at fault, it has all been due to my own incompetence after not having to deal with a puncture for literally years. And it is to that state of non...

Went out to the garage today, bloody back tyre had gone down. Fortunately there were no neighbours out and about to witness my looney tunes cartoon like reaction with John McEnroe "You cannot be serious" sound track accept using the Foxtrot Oscar word instead. After some counselling I returned...

This happened to me. My charger was protected by a 5 amp fuse in the plug. If it is the same for you both battery and charger should be OK once the fuse has been replaced. You need to find out why the fuse blew. In my case chafed wires near to where they entered the charger from the wires that...

I agree and use one, but last time I tried to find one online I could not. Maybe they have stopped making them. I would be pleased if you could post a link where they are still available.

One of these might work...

I now have three electric bikes, my original rear hub 2011 cadence Oxygen Emate with unrestricted throttle, very useful, that I bought on a ride to work scheme for £1395 in 2011, a Yamaha entry level Haibike hard tail £1,750 that I bought with money from a personal injury claim after being...

Before ebikes I used to love mountain biking purely for fun and exercise. I was made redundant in 2008 credit crunch in my late 40's and luckily found a whole new career pathway. Previously I was suited and booted with a company car and there was no possibility of cycling to work. My new job...

Hottest day of the year ride to work. I had a really lovely ride to work this morning setting off just after 08:00 in the morning. Shadows cast by a still quite low in the sky rising sun. Baby I'm amazed. View out from single track over a field of maze and countryside. Lady of the lake. Well...

Quote from Spitz "I don’t understand this oft repeated phrase about the desire for a peddlec to be designed to reach 20mph. On a flat or even slight incline I do not find it difficult to maintain a cruising speed around 20mph on my ebike with only a little effort. Downhill this obviously rises...

For rough terrain, rocks, steep gradients, the entry level Haibike Yamaha full suspension bike gets mentioned a lot as a good starting bike. Though even that is not exactly cheap. I must admit to liking a good crank drive hard tail for their simplicity, lower maintenance costs, and...

Generally overtaking them. Not had a cross word so far. Mostly either a grunt or a bit of good natured banter or a simple hello and other pleasantries. For what ever reason I do not come across them that much.

I purposely left out my average speed on my 10 mile late at night undulating B road return home. Some people use an ebike so that they do not sweat on the way to work and then get their exercise fix on the way home. I guess I get an exercise fix in both directions but use my Haibike in a...

Gosh, I got back from work last night to find that my little "Ford Fusion" comment to rather naughtily prod flec, love him as I do. on the electric car debate had led to a furious debate. Anyway to bring some nice karma back to the thread here are some pictures from my 12 mile ride to work on...

My 2015 Yamaha Haibike gets hard use and has as of my return from work tonight covered 12,426 miles. Not all trouble free, a motor replaced under warranty, and some battery and charger connectors changed by me. I am also on my third rear wheel. And plenty of consumables used, chains, cassettes...