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A Kalkhoff Agattu 8, I believe a 2016 but purchased 2017. The battery does go into a sort of hibernation, if unused for a week, in appearing to be dead to the bike, until the on battery status red button is pushed, waking it up. Does that mode self protect the battery form high charge state...

With "only essential" travelling now mandated, I can't see our bikes, used purely for leisure, going out for some months. What is the best "lay-up" practice for my wife's bike, that one is an e-bike? I seem to recall talk of taking the battery SoC down to about 60% of its normal range?

That I feel is correct, and no reason why it should not be, forums are after all no more or less than its contributors. However, it leaves the normal person interested in buying into an e-bike not as an enthusiast, but as someone using the product as designed, no obvious port of call. I came...

Now I am confused, the Rambla link quoted takes you to text on the Rambla, but images of the Rambletta ?

I am not seeing why adding a throttle to a CD can increase the motor's maximum torque, power yes, but that would be available only if the motor could rev faster. To rev faster would require some extra gearing to be available. However, somebody struggling up a hill, already would be in the...

Removed; original miss read.

Are the heated saddles in especially for the 1st of April, surely this can't be real the more so as today is the start of "Spring"?

Without more details we can't simply draw those parallels. What matters is the force delivered at the road, that relates to the wheel's torque and its radius. The useful torque the Bosch in the Motus can provide depends on the bike's selected gear, an option the hub motor has not available...

Designed properly, and there is no reason why the length can't be suitable, the mass of metal built into the frame serving as a rack can't structurally also locate the rear wheel. I am not a fan of adding on bits serving a single function, preferring an integrated design. That said, the design...

The power [Watts] and torque [Nm] thing ought to be easily understood. Power brings in the time element, how fast or how slow doing something is achieved. Doing the task at all is where torque is involved. Agricultural tractors up till the latest fast ones had small powered engines, but could...

Seems it is prudent to only allow demos to those willing to submit to the dealer taking a "mug shot". Over 20 years ago I had to for access to military bases, despite having ID documentation.

I note Portsmouth and Southampton are named as "trial" zones, I have to wonder if those who made that decision had any idea of how pot holed our roads are? Hit one of the craters or swerve out avoiding one, even at 16 mph will bring some real risks.

With most caravans, the "payload" is far too challenged to cope with just the basics, to have the reserves for another 50 kgs of e bikes.

Yes, thanks for sharing. I had missed picking these up back in November, great.

I agree the vehicle's battery is not going to be done any favours with the charge currents the alternators can punch out, but the alternators are sized for the high current draws of the kit the vehicle has, ie seat heating, lighting etc. Even a 400 Watt output inverter is going to take over 33...

"Neither Solar nor a T5 alternator (14A) will replenish that in a hurry: " Are you sure the T5 ever got just 14A alternators? I have not got a T5, but thought even their small 1.9 Tdi VW engine came with a minimum of a 90 A alternator. Plus there were options of higher rated versions. Is it...

Whilst the charger you said drew 180 Watts when connected to the battery, here in blowing the inverter you did not get as far as exposing the inverter to that, from what you said. Yes? You did, however, expose the inverter to the charger's off load inrush starting current, that could easily...

I had checked (2016) and was told then not to use a modified sine wave inverter on my Impulse charger. The inference though, was it screwing up the expensive charger. At the budget price of that 800Watt inverter, IMO it will be a long way off being a refined pure sine wave unit.

Seems they will forever be damned to the use of small wheels, and the limitations that come with them. I see them as a niche option for many not an overwhelming replacement of bikes as we know. Plus, their use on footways will IMO be short lived as their mass use by the inconsiderate will lead...

I think I would use some form of wrap under strap fixed by the existing bottle fixings, rather than further weaken the structure of a bike never designed as a powered bike. The strap most likely made of metal, structurally probably selecting to use steel sheet.