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Great to have the nice weather. Photographs from yesterdays ride to work. Godalming to Farnham in Surrey. View right from bridge View of ford to left of bridge

My Yamaha 400Wh battery has entered its fourth year and has covered 9022 miles since I bought the bike. Comparing off road with on road can be interesting. I rode mostly off road to work yesterday completing 14 miles and using 28% of my battery giving a theoretical range of 50 miles. The...

Thanks Dave. My repair is not that pretty but it is working effectively at the moment. Just as important in some ways is the knowledge that it can be done without some big brother defeat technology shutting the battery down and locking you out. I did not want to throw away a battery that...

The sDuro returned to service for three return trips to work and 66 miles. Due to being early shifts these rides were on the road and did not involve any off road elements. As expected the battery and charger worked as before and my 20 mph average speed 10 mile return trip on the last day...

When I had a problem with the motor on my Oxygen Emate City bike I was sent a new motor wheel by Andrew at Oxygen free of charge. That motor wheel began to break spokes and I became a dab hand at taking spokes from the old wheel and replacing any broken spokes on the new wheel. I always...

I have noticed a Haibike locked and left quite regularly in the same cycle area on the platform of a mainline station I use that has not gone missing for about six months so far. But I would not fancy doing the same.

Well we ended up opening up the battery and soldering the wires directly inside where they cannot be bent or broken. Nothing dreadful happened when we opened the battery case and the battery charged just as before when we had put it all back together. We used external silicon sealant for...

Necessity is the mother of invention. I guess if Raleigh are not going to fix it I am going to have to do it myself! A mate and I took the plug at the charger end apart to find four colour coded wires. We soldered four appropriately coloured wires onto the wire pegs at the battery shrink...

These modern systems (Bosch,Yamaha,Shimano etc) really try to stop you being able to do anything to them yourself. This then becomes a right pain in the .... when something goes wrong out of warranty. The plug that connects my Yamaha charger to the battery broke and a pin connector at the...

Necessity is the mother of invention. I guess if Raleigh are not going to fix it I am going to have to do it myself! A mate and I took the plug at the charger end apart to find four colour coded wires. We soldered four appropriately coloured wires onto the wire pegs at the battery shrink...

My charger still works, and my battery is still good. It is the broken pin at the battery connection that has me stumped at the moment. The point I am making is that however careful you might be the weakness of this connection can fail and Raleigh and Yamaha do not offer a repair option. My...

Thanks for your kind offer lzzekerslike, If I have no luck repairing it, an Allbatteries battery and your charger may be the best way forward.

Houston, we have a problem Haibike sDuro HardSeven SL 2015 Yamaha Background to the problem The plug that locks the charger lead into the Yamaha battery has always to me looked a little fragile. I am lucky to be able to leave my bike in a room at work where I can also plug in my charger...

Houston, we have a problem Background to the problem The plug that locks the charger lead into the Yamaha battery has always to me looked a little fragile. I am lucky to be able to leave my bike in a room at work where I can also plug in my charger. Some time ago when I returned to the room...

Nasty, I assume it was not been put there recently, but just your unlucky moment to get snared in it.

Looks fantastic Trevormonty, great pictures.

I was going to say, for mountain biking and hill climbing get a crank drive bike. If you did need a stronger rear wheel then putting a stronger rear wheel on a crank drive is far easier than a rear hub powered bike. I have a hardtail Yamaha PU powered Haibike that also climbs like a goat, and...

I just bought a replacement 36A15Ah Lithium battery off Ebay for my old Oxygen Emate City 2011 bike for £217.90 that came with various bits and pieces including a charger with an EU plug. I just bought an EU/UK plug adapter, but also have my old charger that I bought as a stand alone item some...

Just to be different, I use a bbb classic ride pedals which are a smaller supper tough and long lasting pedals combined with plastic toe cage style pedal clips that offer some protection to your feet and hold your feet on the pedal for more control and the ability to pull the pedal as well as...

I was quite taken with the Top Peak rack and clip in bag combination but decided on a generic rack with Ortleib Panniers. I have to say I am a real fan of the Ortleib panniers having now used them since 2011 as they are completely waterproof, have a flexible carrying capacity and clip on and...