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I'll let you know how I get on. I've dine many winter on a motorbike but not push bike. If it gets really bad I might just cycle to the train station I'm hoping the slower speed and the fact I'm cycling will keep me warm. I don't think the electric will be any harder to maintain on anhub...

I've seen three in and around Birmingham. An oxygen bike and a couple of juicy bikes.

I agree, although I never stop pedalling. I still need to loose some timber! Either way I love Electric bikes. So much so that i'm now looknig into an off road build for weekend fun. My poor car has now not been used for 9 months

The fact you get 11 miles out of a 4amp36v NI-HM is really good if you ask me. Thats 13watt per mile. Which on the face of it doesn't sound alot but your probably pulling a high C rate out the batteries and therefore the actual capacity usually drops the more you pull from a cell. I'm glad...

What 4ah battery (Cell type) are you using and with what controller rated / peak (max amp draw) amp? I'm interested as it clearly works very well with the gearing and to be honest keeping the rpm's quite low you can change with your own gearing. The lower rpm would also mean less heat through...

What peaks are you now running and Gearing as such? what is the rpm max of the Tongxin motor and the battery + controller setup?

I did the same as Alan and just said it was a laPtop battery for more run time. I explained the once that even when it was empty it only took 324watts which was roughly 8p in electric to charge. I just said it's like am it phone battery. I'm sure if I took my larger lipo chargers about there...

I personally have a bike that's quicker than the average ebike. But without power I also travel quite quickly and tend to be quite anfast ride without it. Hence when I had a front system it felt like it slowed me down sometimes. But I could put less effort in. In the end I opted for something...

Pretty much yes! Then use it to your hearts content! Although it wouldnt surprise me if the factories already do a few cycles to test them.

Sorry to read about your experience with a very old battery. Not getting the full use must be no fun! As you have wrote there are a few issues with any battery option that is now left to you. An there is no real cheaper or reasonable offer with out immediate change of battery or case. If it...

Today I road through Birmingham city centre where there were huge rally's and roughly 1000 police officers. I stopped to speak to many of them about the rally's. Most just looked at the bike and thought it was interesting and liked the idea of electric bikes. Even the uniformed police on bikes...

Yes. Motors will generally take any amount of power you feed it. Untill they melt. You will increase speed though by using 36v vs 24v

Legally yes it does matter. However most standard kits pill peaks over the 200 or 250w limit. Usually over double. Also when a battery is fully charged it will usually go overthe legal limit. Its probably ok as long as you don't have and accident but you can't predict those. So it the...

It wouldnt do any harm to keep them. I would just to be extra safe. Its hardly like they take up much extra weight...

A Haibike or KTM would probably work best. There's a few people on endless sphere that use downhill bikes with big direct drive hub motors that seem to take off road quite well. The only problem with that though is weight being higher and having an expensive controller and battery mounting...

Jesus Alan that was some pace you where going. That second video puts it more in perspective. Proud of that one!

They give most Lithium batteries a shelf life of 2ish years before the natual chemical breakdown in parts. However this will only decrease capacity and increase resistance. This in real world terms would mean you'd only get 80% of the mileage you used to get when the battery was new. The...

I don't think weight should be that much of an issue. You gain on being low to the ground and air resistance is a much greater force of drag when travelling quick. Nice crash - Glad your alright and I hope you get it all fixed. I know you will you little grease monkey!

Great for a 90's Rave though!

You could do either to be honest. You have enough amp hours to complete the round trip so you don't actually need to charge the battery. However the advantages of charging at work will allow the battery to be in a full state and actually be slightly quicker than if you didn't charge it. As...