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Brilliant, so £400.including donor bike with hydraulic disk brakes, and , as you say you've still got your original bike. Eta the 250w Yosepower kit is slightly stronger up hills than the 350w Let us know how you get on with it when you get the bracket The question is how long until you...

That looks brilliant. I'm going to do another one for my eldest son later in the year, I will nick that idea

OK - unwrapped it all (but not assembled) - Looks good, came with mudguards, rear rack, front and rear lights, solid looking kick stand, horn, pump , waterproof phone holder. Not sure whether to assemble it as is or change the controller / display before hand. The display has some parameters...

That's something I do too, originally when I got an electric bike I used the higher levels, but now I try and use as low a level as possible.

Yes - if I was recommending a cheap 48V bike on here to someone that didn't want to build their own, I think I would suggest the Varun. It has a slightly smaller battery (48V 13Ah) but plenty big enough. The controller is, I think 48V 15A, which is enough for any hills but would be slightly...

Yes, absolutely happy to look at this as a project. As I said in my bag of bike bits I have a KT controller and display. I will undo the battery compartment that holds the controller, see how difficult it would be to swap over and put the kt controller in a bag Will order the DNP freewheel...

So I thought I would try out one of these cheapo Chinese 250W 48V bikes as a bike that I could leave at my sisters and use when I go to visit. It would only be a daytime fair weather bike that I would use on rides with my sister and nieces for rides on generally empty roads and light trails in...

There's plenty of cheap, reliable kits around if you want to convert, alternatively can buy new basic ebikes from ebay / argos with 2 year guarantee - or refurbished from Halfords. What do you want to do with it ? How heavy are you, what range do you need, how hilly is it near you ?

I think the drc hybrid is different to the other two, no suspension, very light, almost like a flat bar cyclocross bike Either of the other too would probably be more similar to your existing bike

No need for a new cassette, just remove and put it on the new motor wheel

Looks good to me !

Lots of people here have used the Yosepower cassette motors and freewheel motors and I think they are both generally reliable. That 350w freewheel kit has a superior controller and display to the 250w kit although not within the UK pedelec law (max rated motor 250w.) There is a 250w freewheel...

Yes it would work, but as others have said, you probably won't need that largest cog because of the extra power from the motor. Yes kmc chain, I would only change it if you need to Fwiw, I think that kit is very good value and decent quality and allow you to upgrade in future

Not completely sure but I've always just bought the cassette and fitted it onto the cassette motor wheel - someone will be along shortly if thats not correct !

Yes I'm pretty sure its a freewheel - doesn't matter, I've used cassette motor wheels to replace a freewheel rear wheel - just means you need to buy a cassette to put on the cassette motor wheel - the shifter doesn't know if its a freewheel or cassette https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205658252412

Any recommendations for hydraulic brakes with built in 2 pin sensors ?

With the 15.5 mph top speed legislation, then if you are cycling mainly on roads then a hub motor has to operate between 7-8 mph up a really steep hill and 15.5 mph top speed. There are plenty of 201 rpm hub motors with 26" or 700c wheels that will happily operate pretty efficiently between...

Welcome, what are you planning for the EAPC? A lot of us here buy a second hand donor bike and add a motor, battery, pedal sensor , controller and display

£134 is pretty cheap even if you just use the motor wheel

The alternative is something like a AKM-100 rear hub motor I don't think the frame and fork on the Escape 3 have mounting points for disc brakes - there are some adapters available but why not get a motor wheel which can support disc or v brakes (and then you can move the conversion kit to a...