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Although knowledge is power! Perhaps ignorance is bliss, as using the online Yamaha manual my battery shows 700 charging cycles or more! Thanks for the link. Maybe I need to put pattern Yamaha battery on my Christmas list!

Sourcing a pattern replacement Yamaha battery was a good find lzzekerslike. I am really impressed with the way my original battery is holding up, but know that it cannot last for ever so having another choice rather than just the expensive Yamaha replacement is a good thing.

Bike bought 20th March Update 15/11/17 Haibike sDuro HardSeven SL 2015 Yamaha My mileage has crept up to 7470 with 1470 miles on the new motor. My Specialised Crossroads Armadillo 650B 27.6” Wired Clincher tyres in 1.9” are now up to 1940 miles with no punctures and little wear showing...

I have taken my old Oxygen Emate City with a large battery behind the seat post on many a train with no issues at all including a busy commuter train out of Waterloo which was so busy there was no chance of the Guard checking. There are rules about what times you are allowed to travel with a...

I was brought up in Hampshire and the nearest large club to me was Southampton and I used to go to The Dell quite regularly to watch them play, usually in the stands behind the goal. The atmosphere in those grounds where you could get so close to the action was fantastic.

I remember many moons ago travelling with a friend to Oxford to watch Oxford United play Reading I think and walking to the ground past terraced houses one of which had a huge shark embedded in its roof. I don't support either of those sides but it was a good day out.

When I decided to start commuting to work and back using a currently 26 miles round trip journey with 16 miles off road or 20 mile round trip on the road I needed some good panniers. I bought a pair of Ortleib back roller classic panniers and have found them absolutely superb. Tough, durable...

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I have an emate city with a battery that is showing its age. I was going to get it re-celled by Jimmy at insat but the price of the ebay one looks tempting and it looks like it will slot straight in with just the lock strip changed. Am I missing something or is it that easy, buy battery...

Ah, I stand corrected.Thank for putting me right. Is it easier to change the front or the rear or not much in it.

The lengths some people will go to to start another thread about falling off. You have to watch out for that thin slippery thin layer of mud over a harder sub surface, quite lethal as pretty much any angle of lean allows the wheels to wash away beneath you, and very unforgiving if you are...

With hub gears at the back the only and easiest solution is to reduce your gearing by changing the front drive cog. In relation to Tommie's comment above I thought reducing the number of teeth on the front cog/ chain ring would normally reduce your overall gearing and increasing the size of the...

I still really like my Yamaha. I love the 0 cadence assistance and the fine control and sheer power and torque at almost no cadence that is available if you need it off road where the higher cadences is really of no consequence. When I bought my bike in 2015 the Yamaha motor on paper was more...

I agree with both of you! If you have a two year guarantee on the motor it is very reassuring if you can see that the company in question will replace the motor with no quibbles if you have a problem within that time. My Yamaha motor in my crank drive sDuro developed play in what on a...

At the time I bought my Haibike sduro hard seven it was the cheapest Haibike in the range and that was the first year that they had offered the Yamaha drive. The other bike I seriously considered was the Bosch drive xduro hard tail. At that time there was quite a difference in price between the...

You have obviously thought it through carefully. The cube does sound excellent value for money combining the Bosch CX Motor and 500w battery at a very good price and it is no good thinking later on "I wish I had done that". I am also interested in what you say about cadence. Before I started...

Sounds like you have bought I nice bike, from a good local shop and have a great trip planned for it. That's the way to do it.

Sounds like you already own the right bikes. The grass is not always greener as they say. These bikes were from the days when the Kalkhoff bikes were the best ebikes available. If you can still get the bits and they are still working as they did when you bought them I would carry on with them.

If it was last used a year ago you might be lucky depending on how charged the battery was when it was left. It could well have a sleep mode to protect the battery. If I was you I would pop it on charge pronto. If the bike will switch on the head unit should be able to show you the level of...

Bike bought 20th March (Update 01/08/2017) Haibike sDuro HardSeven SL 2015 Yamaha, My milage is up to 6730 with 700 odd miles on the new motor as of the 27th July 2017. My current cassette, chain ring and chain have been together for 1520 miles so far. I now do not use higher than eco...