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Spot on - extremely helpful and very grateful d8veh. Also answers my other question I was mulling on - how many holes and where. These holes should be side entry to the bag, same side as cable coming from hub ideally, right ? I'm thinking velcro flaps sewn on to bag to cover the holes for a...

Morphix, FWIW I can understand where you are coming from and thinking all this stuff through on something you've not done before off a piece of paper is not easy. But sometimes variations & compromises = inevitable part of project. All hech seems interested in is the bike bits and not the...

hech, you don't have to read it - suggest you skip this one and read the other ones written by people who have done it before. I've no intention of just going out to the shed and shoving bits in other bits and then looking at the finished result and thinking - ah, I need to start again. If the...

Thanks for the feedback - trying to keep a level head at the moment ! Controller siting is turning out to be the critical factor on this one. It's definitely neater behind the seatpost and would be ventilated there too. Would have to be upside-down(label-side to ground) because with the...

I'm actually coming round to thinking the controller is best behind the seatpost. Siting it low in the triangle like in the last photo means it is very close to the front chainwheel. The clearance would be very small for a bag which sits in there accommodating the width of the controller. Don't...

I thought you meant one of these : BH Jumper Hoody by bhgeneralstore| CafePress.co.uk ... welcome :)

A world away from the Birmingham exhibition then ! Snow has killed it for me.... well, that and the arrival of a battery and other kit bits to keep me fiddling away all weekend ! It'll take more than a few free protein bars to cover the £50 train ticket, entry fee, cancelled trains and travel...

Great - OK with that lot in mind, a few options : I turned idea of rack being too far back on its head and squeezed it back a bit more to the limit of what the extension rods would accept. This created 2 bolt fixing slots which just happened to line up with those on the controller housing...

OK - off to try some combos and see what works. Some nice polystyrene packaging came with the battery looks like it might be just the job for a mock-up. This is a rear hub motor. So are you saying fitting controller in front of triangle near handlebars translates to long wires and noticeable...

Yeah you're right about ongoing expense. Though bar breakdowns the thing I'm interested in other than keeping it functioning this year is basically the Speedict options and possible potentiomenter. No doubt more things will emerge - but if I have something which works well enough and I'm not...

Really lucky - and glad you didn't sprain or break anything. Horrid shock all the same .. really sorry to hear about this. The delivery bregade seem even more manic than usual. I shouldn't laugh, but .... pity you didn't have it on film. Could have made £100 off that I'm sure :)

Battery and bits arrived today so easier to look at options on a number of fronts. Need to get the basic setup design sorted in my head now before going any further. It all has to work on the frame and give me something I like and which meets my day-to-day usage needs and suits my lifestyle and...

I collected the rack this afternoon and fitted it now using the extender-arms supplied with the rack to the swapped out seatpost clamp designed to accommodate rack fixings. Would have preferred it in silver to match the frame but they only do the version for disc brakes in black : Absolute...

Must admit it's tempting to come up to London for this and have a bosh about on the Kudos bikes to see how they ride. The thing about those test tracks though is whilst they may be perfect for the time-trial obsessed lycra crew, the bit which really interests me is how bikes (both eBikes and...

Is there much cheap cycle clothing up there ? Got some top notch gear for 75% off at NEC with haggling. Is there a Kudos Tornado to test and can you test road bikes too ? So hard for me to get on any round here (none of the shops will let you test ride bikes locally, which when they are asking...

Not always - German shipping can easily run to about £20-£30 so any low value imports get pricey. Advantage is that $:£ is about 1.66 (or was when I bought a week ago anyway) and so the part cost is usually about half European prices to begin with. US imports do tend to attract full duty and...

Just respoke the front hub into a silver rim to get a matching pair. You'll have all the spokes and hub already so it'll be a doddle and there are a few shops will true the built wheel for very little. Or blacken the rear one as Old_Dave suggests. If you go out on these filthy roads at the...

Look to be very hard to get in black outside USA and likely about twice the price of a silver one landed. Any reason why you won't buy from there ? These guys will export by the looks of it : Bike Parts Store - Gaerlan Custom Cycles SJS stock it in silver - but you probably already...

Quite possibly so ... but I had mine out in well sub-zero last night with the front dynamo lighting on and having started with about 40% charge. I definitely noticed a bit of a drop in 'perkiness' compared to when riding at similar time in temps not quite so low also with a pretty-much...

Thanks for the tips. I guess you cut that Velox stuff to size ? Anyone know what the rim diameter of BMS-supplied 26" rims is ? If it's adhesive, am I right in thinking you'd have to cut into that and re-tape over again if you ever had to remove a nipple once it had been fitted ? The only rim...