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Being of a certain age I remember when punk rock first hit the scene and the radio 1 jocks of the day (with the honorable exception of John Peel who always played the most obscure s--t he could get his hands on), said that it would never catch on and they would never play it.......... The rest...

I use a Moon Meteor Front light and have a spar on the handlebars just in case of failure but have not had to use the spar in 21 months of commuting. I use it for a 10 mile unlit B road commute. I like how small, light and self contained they are and can be easily slipped into a pocket. They...

Well I treated my bike to a new cassette, chain and rear mech today. The rear mech had been bent but working for a while but I thought it was time for a new one to aid crisp and reliable gear selection. For the record the previous cassette and chain had lasted 1246 miles since the 28th of...

Hi Croxden, I don't know how but the Reise and Muller bikes somehow passed me by in March 2015 when I was looking for an electric mountain bike for my 20/26 mile round trip to work that can include 16 miles of cross country, and a need to carry stuff, and a preference for it to be carried in my...

I have also found the throttle on my Oxygen useful in ways I had not thought of when I bought it. As above if the chain jams or comes off it still provides forward movement to allow you to choose a safe place to stop and sort out the problem. If you cannot solve the problem it will help to get...

Hi Andy88, i have just stumbled across this thread, and for some reason looked on the 50 cycles second hand bike sales section earlier today and they have an Oxygen Emate City from the throttle era for sale apparently little used for I think £450. I own a Oxygen Emate City that I bought from...

I do a 20 mile round trip to work and keep going through the Winter, and use Schwalb Smart Sam Tyres with slime filled tubes on my hard tail electric mountain bike. I use an off road route to work for my late shifts, returning on the road and have not found the roads too slippy to use and keep...

Autumnal Surrey in and around "The Devil's Punch bowl" in Surrey. EddiePJ if you see this post, I remember you recommended a digital camera you use once, could you remind me which one it was and why you like it. Mine is at the bargain basement end of the scale and it might be...

Miles now 4984 I am just about to hit 5000 miles. The rear cassette is now at 1044 miles after being replaced on the 28th of June 16. I did get a little hint of top gear wear for the first time, on my Monday night return trip from work so it may be getting close to time to change it, but it...

Hi DazTopp. I am using a 42 tooth chain ring combined with a Shimano Alivio HG400 MTB 12-36t:12-14-16-18-21-24-28-32-36 cassette. I got the cassette from chain reaction and the chain ring from the shop where I bought my bike, ebikeshop.co.uk in Farnham, Surrey. The name on the chain ring is...

If 7:00AM sounds early to some of you sleepy heads I better not say what time I get up for an early shift so that I can commute to work on my bike, and on my 20 mile return trip I have to get up half an hour earlier to go on the bike rather than in the car and at the time I sometimes have to get...

Probably true, although my routes have some great single track sections including loose steep leaf mould bomb hole drop off down hill bits with a downed tree trunk to negotiate as you exit built up with soil on the left to create a ramp that you can clear at just the right speed to negotiate the...

I am heavy (100kg+), carry loaded panniers and this might help to put the power down without the wheel slipping as much. I use the bike to get to work and back rather than leisure and have got to know my various routes really well through repetition. There is a lot sand in Surrey that means...

I just like being able to immediately adjust the power to the back wheel with your legs, if it starts to spin you can back off and then gradually on again or off again and each change in pressure has an immediate effect on the power delivery to the back wheel with no delay at all, splendid.

Hi Daveh, you are of course correct, the torque sensor mechanisms relay how much power is added to your own effort dependent on how hard you are pushing down on the pedal and what level of assistance you are in and the support can be provided by either a crank or hub motor. I have found that...

I really like the instant power availability and torque of the Yamaha motor and have had no issues with the majority of the gears available to me, and do not seem to get any premature wear issues with the chain or chain ring. The motor pulls strongly and smoothly from the first push on the...

I agree Rob that there are a lot of variables and maybe the combination of the weight my bike carries, the off road conditions it encounters on the way to work with no way to properly clean it for the journey home on the road, the Yamaha motor being anecdotally harder on the transmission than...

I am up to 812 miles on this cassette now with no problems and over half the miles are off road with 100kg+ of me on board and two fully loaded panniers so I do give my transmission a fair bit of punishment.

I remember now that i had no problems with the spokes in the first rear wheel on my Oxygen. However when the motor became faulty within the two year guarantee and Andrew at Oxygen sent me a new rear wheel and motor that wheel became a spoke breaker. However as I still had the old wheel I had...

Hi Dave, I was interested that your bike seemed to have both a rear rack and rear suspension. That would be much kinder to the rear wheel/spokes than a hard tail. I am also 100kg ish and carry heavy panniers on a rear rack and on my first electric assisted bike the Oxygen emate city that I...