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It looks OK. Did you pull the wire central before you started screwing?

Oh dear. If only you'd asked first. I hate to have to say this to such a nice bloke, but it's going to be terrible. With the weight and speed, your brakes will melt in seconds. If I had bought that kit, I'd be looking for a donor wiith a steel frame and disc brakes. It must be a hardtail too...

I'm an experience guy and I'll tell you it's absolutely no problem to spring an aluminium frame. The only time I've seen problems mentioned is on forums, where the theorists, who never tried it, do their scaremongering. It's another urban myth. With a 6 speed freewheel and no disc, your motor...

Did you try Wisper?

That's a good question. This is where things get very messy. The kit supplier is providing what he calls a 350W kit, maybe with a 350W motor, but if you go on the motor manufacturer's website, I can almost guarantee that you'll find the same motor rated at 250W. Even Bosch used to do something...

Good for the environment, but he has to do over 50,000 miles of just electric driving to break even financially. That's not going to happen unless he can use it to avoid congestion charges. My car's pretty economical. I filled it up four times last year, so about £240 annual fuel cost. Electric...

I can still do my two times tables.

I've never had one that didn't fit, but those folders with a big fat seatstay that curves round from the main spar can be very stiff. Yours will be OK. No disc brake saves you about 5mm because you don't need the spacing to keep the disc away from the caliper and stays. You can reduce the...

Correct, but I think you've misunderstood the point. Woosh was implying that my maths was wrong (maybe trying to reinforce a point from another thread). I didn't say or imply that 400Wh and 13Ah were equivalent. I was simply comparing watts with watt-hours and amps with amp hours in the same...

How many times did your bike break down? The best customer service is to give the customer a bike that never needs a visit to Halfords for £300 spares. PS you're going to lose this arguement. Better to ask someone with a Smart Bike, Turbo Levo or Kalkhoff Impulse if you want to go down that...

Water in the throttle or its connector.

And how many nipped over the border to buy a Dutch one.

Zefal Cyclops is best bang-for-buck. It folds and easily adjusts. View is perfect. It's cheap. Others do the same but or more expensive, or they're simply not as good. I've yet to find one that does more.

That's very pedantic. I just picked out two random common capacities, one in each units. They're not related. Funnily enough, as I wrote it, I was sure that someone was going to misinterpret what I wrote and pull me up on it, but let it ride to see if I was right.

If the nut doesn’t start, surely the thread must be damaged, which you should be able to see and repair with a file?

All batteries are legal in the UK unless they have a nominal voltage of more than 48v, so that one at 36V is legal

It's not just you. You'll often hear salesmen or even so-called technical guys at shows referring to the batteries as 400W or 13 amps instead of watt-hours and amp-hours. It's very confusing for anyone that knows basic electrics but is new to electric bikes.

Did these issues get resolved? The grating noise and associated rough running is normally caused by a bad connection to the motor even though it feels like a mechanical problem in the motor. The motor connector near the motor is a prime canditate to be the cause. It's easy to leave it not pushed...

Can you give examples of what you mean? I've never seen a bike in my local Halfords rated at more than 250W, neither can I find any on their website.

It's weird, but sort of logical because if you're already getting your desired level of power from the PAS, you only need the throttle as a power boost, and as soon as you stop pedalling, it becomes a normal proportional throttle. When I said some versions work like that, I think they all do...