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I think it's a little unfair to compare the two bikes as there is a substantial difference in the retail price. At your weight, I would suggest that the Crossfire-e would cope with your usage a little better, although you should bear in mind that in reviews of the Crossfire-e a significant...

I've been using it for some time - works well. I like that it gives you the point on your ride of Max Heart rate and Max speed.

Agreed - I just got hit for Vat, Import Duty and handling charge from TNT for my replacement controller from Australia. Made it somewhat expensive! Bafang China did not even respond to my request asking where I could get a replacement controller from in Europe.

That sounds realistic for the Crossfire-e. I used to get 40+ miles out of mine. My GFs ran out of juice after 31.5 miles at the weekend. 2000ft of climbing. She has a dodgy knee so needs the assist up hills.

I have my battery from Jimmy, but it's currently sitting on the table in my dining room. Not entirely sure when I will fit it yet as the stock battery is actually performing pretty well. I think the dodgy battery gauge along with a stupidly low standard "keep current" setting made me think the...

I found the 30.9 seat post I ordered would not fit. Rather than hack it about, I decided to order a 27.2 seatpost and an appropriate (30.4) shim from Aliexpress - the shim was just over 3 quid delivered. If anybody wants a "Cube" 30.9 suspension seat post, let me know!

It comes as standard on the Greenway City Cross (Maxdrive). It works just fine, but for my liking it cuts the power rather abruptly and for too long a period of time compared to the sensor on say a Kalkhoff Impulse drive.

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I hadn't even spotted how low the level settings were - those are standard on the new controller - and a lot lower than the old one! I will tweak those as well before my next ride. Have you reduced the start power to try and protect the plastic gears? I will drop the LVC a bit - maybe just to...

Curious! I wonder if yours is unique in that respect? I did a 32.6 mile ride today. The new controller has completely resolved the issue with the wacky battery gauge - it is far more stable and no longer drops down and then recovers when going up a long steep hill. Whether this is merely a...

Controller type is SW06 - just the same as the original controller:

My new programming cable arrived from China today - having the genuine Higo connector makes it much easier to connect the cable. Having read the standard settings from the 1B controller, the only difference is the firmware version is 1.0.0.4 rather than 1.0.0.2 on the orginal and the Maximum...

Words to that effect, yes. It was late at night and I suspect my colourful language may have woken the kids :-) Everything is fixable, just could have done without it! I've now ordered a programming lead with a genuine higo connector to reduce the risk of me bending the pins again.

No need to panic - the controller failure was nothing to do with settings, but user stupidity! I bent some of the pins on the higo connector plugging in the programming lead (the one I was using didn't have a genuine Higo connector). I used a metal scredwriver to straighten the pins - the...

168 AUD - about £108 including shipping (ouch!) Interesting to hear your settings - I'm going to run stock settings for a week or so to check that the new controller is working without issue before tweaking again. Looking forward to getting out on it again now the weather is improving!

It should be 25amp same as original, but I assume that there are some internal upgrades to the hardware. It came from Ewan at eMAX Electrics in Oz. I blew my first controller through stupidity - let's hope I don't make the same mistake again! I will hopefully get the chance to hook it up this...

For those who are interested here's what the revised version of the controller looks like, along with the original one on the left. It has blue connectors and is marked up with MAX01B (presumably to indicate the second hardware revision):

Bugger - I ordered a 30.9mm based on the info above! Ah well - I'm sure there's another bike somewhere in my garage it will fit!

I had the cutout 9 times in about 600 miles - not too bad, but I thought it was unacceptable in what was my primary mode of transport to get to work. Shame as it really is a fantastic bike to ride - I really hope the MTB version doesn't have similar issues.

So basically it looks like the Crossfire-e, but with an MTB frame / wheels. I got a refund for my Crossfire-e in the end - the HESC system is great when it works, but the electrics would cut out on a regular basis.