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I collected this bike from Argos yesterday. It cost £120. Thanks to Waspy for pointing it out.

What I found interesting about this one is it looked like the guy had removed the saddle from another nearby bike and was using the tube like a torniquet to break the lock, but it didn't give, luckily for the owner. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LJ7d38tVtGY

30AH cells, so you only need 10 to make a 36v battery capable of delivering 120A. Looking around Aliecpress, I found 10 for £117, but you can get coupons that would get at least £10 off that. the battery would weigh about 4.5 kg for 1100Wh. At ebike currents of around 20A, they should last for...

They have 201 rpm AKM 100SX cassette motors listed at $45 inc. shipping. I just bought one with a complete 15A KT controller kit for £119 inc. shipping and taxes. Other people sell KT controller kits for about £80, so I got the motor for around £40!!!! They're ordering system is a bit quirky...

A friend brought his wife's bike to me today to figure out what's wrong with it. It's a Woosh Camino. The story was that the bike was taken to a bike charity shop to fix the loose centre-stand. When they tightened it up, the motor cable was trapped under it and got completely squished. The motor...

If you don't have anything better, this looks OK for £3.21. The trick with Aliexpress is to click at the same item listed separately at the bottom of the page, then click at the one at the bottom of that page until a cheaper one shows, which will be the multi-buy option with free shipping, then...

Remember this guy, who threw a tantrum when his wheel came off, and has been making videos about riding around on his illegal bikes since? In this video, the police caught up with him. What was the outcome? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hf_2CJcmv7k Answer in the full video here; Two weeks later:

I bought this folding bike from a catalogue returns outlet a few months ago, thanks to Guerney pointing it out. I got this one and the Argos £245 one for £200 the pair. This one is 24v and was sold with a known faulty battery. First I repaired the battery - sort of. It was clear that it had...

My aprentice fell off his bike at low speed. Afterwards, his bike became intermittent then stopped working. The zero LED is blinking. IIRC, someone else had that error code, I found the manual, but the zero LED blinking was not included in the list. Can anybody remember the thread or the...

Here it is at only £231 inc shipping. As well as a cassette motor, the KT controller is 17A, so at 48v, it'll give all the hill-climbing you want. Best of all, it has the block connectors for easy testing. One of the pictures in the description shows a torque arm and the packing list says, "zip...

For the last few months, I've had to use my crank-drive bike because it's too comfortable and convenient. I suffer from shoulder and neck pain on my hub-motor bike, which has normal MTB type bars. The crank-drive bike has nice Raleigh North Road bars, which are lovely, plus it has that comfy...

I found an old SD card with literally thousands of my old ebike photos on it. Some of them were for projects I posted on here, and there were lots of other interesting ones too. Here's an ebike I spotted in the town centre. A couple of things stand out to me. It seems to have a cable operated...

I'm not subscribed, so I can't read the article directly. The gist seems to be that we're not buying many ebikes compared with other European countries. As far as I can remember, that's always been the case. If any of you are subscribed, post your comments. The headline seems to defeat itself...

If you have a legal bike, there's nothing to worry about. If you have an illegal bike, it doesn't look like you have a good chance of keeping it.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/07rn6i0ysyA

In the last video, his back wheel span out of the dropouts and he chucked the bike in anger. I'm still not sure if I feel sorry for him. He has quite a substantial following now. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pdnBp9d-I04?feature=share

I bought some of these from Ebay for £1.40 each - low frequency option: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256071971148 I figured out that the average person pedals at about 60 rpm = 1 turn per second. A good pedal sensor has 12 magnets, so makes 12 pulses per rotation = 12 pulses/second or 12 Hz. I...

Thanks to my good friend Guerney, I snagged one of these bikes for £100. It doesn't look like it's been used much if at all. The place I bought it from deals in surplus electrical stuff stock - mainly laptops, soundbars and stuff like that. They had a load of non-electric bikes too pretty cheap...

I saw this on ES. It's an A2B Metro that were/are pretty good bikes, except they were locked by CANbus comms, so very difficult to repair. This one has already been modified with an external KT controller (25A), and presumably something has been done with the battery. It's not clear whether it...

I was very disappointed about the lack of progress after the consultation about raising the power limit to 500w and allowing throttles, but it's not over. A little bird flew in my window and told me that new regulations are coming very soon. The 250w power limit will be removed because it's...