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Yes, I do. It wasn't expensive, perhaps £30 from Argos. You can also get them in Lidl/Aldi sometimes. I have no hard evidence, but it looks to me to give more protection than a cycle helmet. I've glued a peak to mine, as I wear specs (helps keep rain off). The ear warmers are great in winter...

You should be ok with the 800w controller, as long as you only run it briefly, gently and under no load. Some controllers/motors will run without sensors. I assume you are using a throttle? Have you checked that its working?

I'm sure by now you've spotted that you made a series of typos. For the benefit of others I'll attempt to correct. You wrote: I'n pretty sure you meant to say: "Hi Trex, thanks for taking time out to help a total newb on a tight budget! Much appreciated!"

There's something wrong with your meter if it's giving different readings for for pos/neg values, but it suggests the battery is good enough for testing. There's no point connecting battery to the controller until you have at least: Controller connected to motor thick wires (phase wires) Some...

It a important to test this thing through in a logical manner. Firstly, it's important to know how many volts are coming out of the battery, and if its getting to the controller.

So, first things first. How many volts from battery, and can you confirm thats feeding to the controller?

Probably easier to get a more suitable husband.

No, that's not how it works. The motor is a 3 phase DC unit, and needs a controller to work. Have you got a multimeter?

It's a 'gateway' sport!

I'm with you Flecc. Ultimately, the power restriction has a disproportionate effect upon those of us that are larger (and most often older). This gives a better power/weight advantage to the young (14 for a pedelec, 16 for a moped, 17 for a 125) Even I was about 10 stone soaking wet when I was...

Voltage is quite a poor indicator of state of charge (SOC), and with lithium it's even worse than SLA, as there are very sharp drop offs at both ends of the curve. I would guess that 36.9v is between 50-30% capacity remaining. If you need accuracy, you need to put a watt meter on it.

In a very limited way, I do something similar. If a local second hand bike takes my fancy, especially if its cheap because it needs something fixed, then I buy it with a view to selling it on. It's just the selling on bit that I have yet to master. n+1 and all that...

It ain't sport, it's tran-sport.

Loving the Chinese translation of Low Voltage Cut Out = Pressure Shortage

Oh no! He's said magic words! Here we go again............

All lies, you are all just jealous of me and my stunning, designer wife!

You are correct here, it's not always cheaper, unless: : You have a bike that you like already. : You can use eBay, and are happy to fix something up. : You want something unusual. At 6ft5 I'm guessing (it is just a guess, happy to be proven wrong) that most of the usual sub £1k bikes will...

If you are handy it's, an easy job to convert any mountain bike. That way you can find a bike that fits and go from there. Where are you (roughly) as there are are a few companies/individuals who will do the job for you

When I've had similar problems it was because of pad glaze. Take the pads out, rough them up on a bit of medium sandpaper, put them back in then do a series of hard stops from 15mph in succession to bed them back in.

You don't need to take it apart at this stage (I advise against it). You just need to measure the output voltage with your multimeter and post it here. If you don't know how to take the reading then post a few pics of battery and meter and we can advise.