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Glad to hear you got the issue resolved and you got decent customer service from the supplier.

I used to be a compliance officer and dealt with many Chinese companies and many products were tested by Chinese test houses or even inhouse testing if large enough company to have those facilities. Even if the test house had CNAS accreditation sometimes it was difficult not to be suspicious and...

I think the European standards are variable based on the weight limits of the bike so a bike that claims a 100kg total weight limit wouldn't have to be as strong as a bike that claims 160kg total weight limit. Many performance bicycles have lower weight limits as they are designed to be lower...

I keep seeing Brompton hub motors for sale on ebay, official Brompton hub motors so I feel like the ebike kits are probably a better investment as they often use more generic hub motors that could be replaced later. I would have a good look on aliexpress to see what is available as well as...

If you have a 36V battery and 12V lights then can't you just run them in series to match voltage. I'm curious though is a 12V switch with a LED an active component i.e. you could have a 12V LED switch and two 12V main lights (front and back) and connect them to a 36V battery in series. I'm...

I guess two other variables are the gearing itself and its ratio plus for how long peak torque is maintained, could be 5 seconds, 50 seconds or 50 minutes. Without stating how long peak torque is maintained its hard to compare. Maybe allowed rider cadence is also a factor, if you ride beyond the...

I bought some fake individual Daweikala cells years ago and was fully refunded by aliexpress when I supplied images of actual capacity of the cells. This is a rare event in Aliexpress customer service. Basically they were sold as 9900mAh which I knew was fake when I ordered admittedly but their...

That makes total sense but there are other factors, clouds some of which are very dense, you might be riding through a tunnel even a natural tunnel like a tree tunnel, as rare as they are I guess ecllipses or partial ecllipses, anything really that reduces light; dust storms, fog, haze...

I can't agree with that, I really don't like the ebike laws in the UK that are from EU legislation. I feel we need to do our own legislation which is much fairer and the plain english campaign would approve of. We need to get more people out of cars and this means reliable low cost ebikes with...

It's perfectly normal to need lights before sunset and for a period after sunrise especially when cloudy you can see automatic car lights come on with what looks like reasonable light to me but they are configured to come on at a set light level. Of course just like an aperture in a camera the...

It isn't a proprietary component type ebike by the looks of it, seems more based on universal parts so you could likely buy a fairly standard 36V battery and use it, maybe a saddle bag battery as the current battery is in that location. It's all about adapting cables. You'd have to examine it to...

Actually 'hours of darkness' and this can be mornings and early evenings especially in winter, anytime lights are required basically. I realise there maybe cyclists who don't cycle in winter or do daytime rides only in summer but most cyclists require lights I would say. I see quite a lot of...

Aren't most mid-drive motor frames aluminium, typically heat treated 6061 so you would have to heat-treat the frame again after welding to get back to full strength. This means a full paint strip and access to a heat treatment oven. However I have to say that if your not going to be re-fitting...

Sounds like you need to change some parameters in the display if that is possible to get a better reading. There maybe a way of getting just a voltage reading with your display which is better I think. Also this thread might help; https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/kt-p5-setting.41543/

The illegality of throttles is the twist and go nature of some ebikes not the throttle itself. It's just a way of governing power same as having stepped power levels. Twist and go ebikes sold before 2017 with throttles are still legal to use too and you can still have DVSA approved twist and go...

It's the same motor in many mid-drives as stated as 250W, 350W or even 500W sometimes. It's utterly moronic to have legislation that just needs a sticker on a motor to claim its power level hence why you see even on Amazon people selling 250W stickers to replace the stickers of more powerful...

The Shimano E6000 and E5000 are low torque mid-drive motors. The E6000 is 50Nm peak and the E5000 40Nm peak so allowing for loss through the chain these motors are down in small hub motor torque level territory and likely to be much longer lasting than their e-mountain bike versions from the...

Well if the throttle only operates when you pedal that wouldn't be illegal and as for the power that is a very debatable topic related to how power is measured and what level of power is actually enforced anyway. The legislation seems very complex and very manipulative with regards how power is...

Does that ebike not have a thumb throttle, is there a mode to switch to that just enables you to use that for full control of the motor. The ebike looks to be 500W anyway so not strictly legal anyway so can't see the issue of using the thumb throttle and you won't be spotted using it if you just...

Lots of ebikes are well below 200Wh use per hour in fact some ebikes only come with 200Wh batteries or close to it and could be used beyond 2 hours. Other ebikes may have regen so they effectively pull less from the battery over time as they are topping the battery up on rides. I think a simple...