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As I said, that's how I got the last one off a couple of weeks ago.

Don't worry, it's going to be super in about a week when I get the tool and the new gears and brakes.

That's very kind of you. I had thought you wanted to see me suffer.

Thanks everybody for ideas. I think some of those things are OK if you're scared to drill. personally, I wouldn't be happy to have a 3.5kg battery held on by any of those bodge methods. 20 mins work and two 5 pence rivnuts got me this. Now I have three strong rivnuts to fix the battery base to:

Thanks for sharing. Every video becomes a bit better regarding the presentation. In that respect, the only niggle was the bell, which sounded like it wasn't adjusted right, so it didn't ring properly. It sounded bad, and you said it was really good. One thing I do need to say though is that the...

Does it come with pedals, or are they extra?

My plan is that tool and a bit of heat. If it doesn't work, I'll weld a 3 foot bar to it directly. If that doesn't work, it'll be chucked in a skip.

When current passes through a battery, it heats up due to the internal resistance and in proportion to the square of the current. In other words, the heat produced at 20A is 100 times the heat produced at 2A. When you're riding the bike, the battery is in a stream of air that aids cooling, and...

I tried all that and what Sturmey said, with a lot of help from Thor's 1.6kg lump hammer. If it would be that easy, it would be done. If you remember, the last Argos folder I did had the same problem, and I successfully got it off using those methods. It's extremely difficult to hold a stilson...

Hmmmm! That's a difficult decision - £15 for a not very secure solution or 10 pence for a very secure one. Let me think!

Yes, it's the same as any bike as long as you can get that piece off. There's also a chance that you can fit it to the left side if there's enough gap between the pedal arm and the BB. In that case all you need to remove is the locking, but you'd need to fix the sensor to the other side of its...

Who's we? My phone has a 4500mAh battery and I charge it at 500mA. It's been going for about 5 years so far and still seems to last as long as it did when new - about 3 days.

I don't seem to be having much luck these days. Every small task ends up big. I did a trial fit of the battery. The middle screw hole is about 3mm out. I thought I'd be able to use it if I removed a couple of mm from the end of the base, which got the base on, but when I put the battery on, it...

I wouldn't disagree with any of that. Car batteries have sophisticated pre-conditioning and cooling systems to control temperature when fast charging and the charge rate is adjusted according to the state of charge. I don't think you can make any comparison with ebike batteries other than to...

Chargers don't add miles, instead they add watt-hours. In that context, can you explain again which charger you have and what it does? Also, where do you find a place to plug in your charger? In 15 years of ebiking, I've never passed anything like that. Surely, you'd have to divert into town...

The controller's cpu monitors the 5v on the brake signal wire. The default is on, as that wire is held at 5v by a pull-up resistor. When the CPU sees 0v on that wire, it sends the code for that symbol to the LCD's CPU, which puts it on the display. That 5v brake signal wire would only be 0v if...

So that thing is approximately the size of a Hailong battery without its leads and adapter, and it weighs about 2.5kg with cables and adapter, compared with about 3.5kg for a 56 cell 52v 13Ah battery that you can swap in about 10 seconds. I can't see what the advantage of your idea is.

On my one, it's about 6mm. There's a slight swelling of the BB of maybe 1mm, so if you have a thin BB tube, you might get 7mm. Try it, and if there's insufficient clearance, which will probably be the case, run the cables in an outer around the motor. That's notexactly a big problem to do.

Now we reach the end of the story. I got the three-mode controller mentioned above. Now it's installed and working. Obviously every connector that could be wrong was wrong, so quite a bit of soldering. The connector for the motor is a 6-pin one - 3 phase wires and 3 speed sensor wires. I can't...

In 15 years of ebiking, I'be never cleaned my brakes with anything. Once, when I was putting in new pads, i took the opportunity to clean all the crud out, then I put a bit of silicone grease around the pistons. From time to time on various bikes, I had groaning noises, especially after rain...