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Magnet on crank arm, actually on end of pedals threads araldited into the Allen key hex on the end. The sensor is taken off from the standard position inside the chain stay and repositioned on the outside. I have done over 1000km in the alps with it like this with no problems.

2016

Change up a gear and use a lower cadence then! My Yamaha provides useful extra input up to about 90 rpm plenty fast enough to do 30+mph on road bike gearing.

On gradients like that you need rear wheel drive, if it was a car you could reverse up! Even with rear wheel drive you will have to keep your weight on the front to keep the wheel on the ground. You can play with tyre width and compound all you want you will only improve the situation by a...

If you do that you get an error. On Yamaha mid drives you can reposition the sensor and fit a magnet to the cranks to activate the sensor. Speedo doesn't work correctly but I don't have a problem with that. Bosch motored bikes will not work by sensing cranks I am told but the above should work...

Nearly 50% of bikes round here are ebikes, mainly Haibike, KTM and Corratec. It is rather hilly here though, it's unusual for me to have less than 1000m of ascent on any ride.

Cut the brass inserts out of the old one and fit them into the new one.

I was saying make it wider.

Vivax assist are based just down the road from me in Wörgl.

I was thinking more of the width than the thickness.

If you are going to make one it looks like you could leave a little more 'meat' around the central screw and reduce the chance of a repeat problem.

Large parts of the Alps have flat valley floors where you can ride for miles with no hills. It is possible to follow the Inn river rising in Switzerland all the way through Austria and on into Germany where it joins the Danube without any hills at all. The track is frequented by all kinds of...

Yes I agree that was the point of my post, females generally think that it is only testosterone fuelled lunatics that overtake on the right so they creep down the kerb and get left hooked into a barrier by someone who can't see them. Always overtake on the right unless there is a good cycle...

Filtering down the left side is the main cause for mainly female cyclist deaths in London! The reason it is mainly female is being generally more risk averse they think it is safer to filter left than overtake on the right facing oncoming traffic. Drivers have a far larger blind spot on the left...

No way would I put 45kg on a rear mounted rack! Regardless of what the manufacturers say rear mounted racks are very difficult to make stable enough for any bike let alone a heavy one. If you go to any cycle race you will see very few competitors even at the lowest levels using rear racks...

Yes it does work done hundreds of miles on my 2016 Yamaha Haibike with exactly that set up with no problems. I have been told that it doesn't work with Bosch systems. Bearing mind that if you want to use a separate speedo a wireless one probably won't work, I use a GPS based one.

One day is a stretch unless you are a club rider regularly doing 80 - 100 mile rides in the top group. I have done it in 2 days twice on an unassisted bike finishing at lunch time on the second day. The first day was long to finish in Alston or at Nenthead but the second day was easy. I did...

It is a really good ride with a huge variety of scenery, lots of climbing with a number of route choices. A reasonably easy 3 day ride, a bit harder to do in two.

Well done, pleased you enjoyed it.

Do let us all know how you get on.