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3.3 Kg _with_ the 10 Ah batterie! I am in love :D And the tiny battery fits in my tight frame in a standard bottle cage! :cool: Quite expensive with a second range extender battery but weight saving has always come at a price. Thanks for the heads up d8veh!

I think that it is honest showing it like that. I wouldn't want a screen in that state it will die under the first shower of rain and the price new is just £307 plus post and tax that puts it at about £380. As it is I think it is worth less than £180.

My B+M Ixon IQ arrived today. I can't wait for tomorrow night so that I can go out and try it, in broad daylight it is already awe inspiring. My previous front light was safe in that drivers had no problem seeing me last week and were dipping their lights, but I couldn't see enough detail on the...

Cheaper with more options of what you put up front http://www.noomadbike.com/

You can buy her an s-pedelec if she has her drivers licence. She may need a second battery to do 100km. How about a nice Grace MXII Urban? Of course she will have to wear a motorbike helmet but I am sure you can get away with a UVEX or Casco.

What worries me about a hub motor conversion on that trike is the one side only frame. I think the best/easiest conversion would be a "mid" motor. My dream pedelec is a HPvelotechnik Gekko and the "250"W Bafang would be my choice n° 1.

No newer controllers don't do that. Chose a sine wave controller over a square wave one. Chose a LCD with seperate buttons which you can place near the gear shifter. Choose a PAS disk with at least 10 magnets in it. I use the assitance level buttons like a gear change, examples: You are in...

I was thinking really hard about lacing my Mxus into a 28" Mavic rim with DT Swiss 2mm spokes which is 14 gauge. The only thing really holding me back are the torque arms - I would like custom cut torque plates to keep things nice and clean. Haven't found a cheap local source yet, when my...

It is a small (M?) frame and marked as high tensile steel. Mxus and battery are given as around 6kg. Missing are the front derailleur and gear shifter but I have added as well as the battery and motor a frame lock which is not light. The SKS mudguards weigh nothing, the Michelin City tyres are...

The other day I came across a site in German and the guy has a page about building an open source controller and was using Arduino and bluetooth. Do a Google on "open source e-bike controller" and you will find heaps of sites.

Last Friday I was riding up my hill on the way to the train station and near the top passed a 50+ lycra with a cherry "bonjour". He immediately got out of the seat jumped on my wheel and followed me to the top passing me with much satisfaction on the crest. Now was he annoyed because I was...

There is a longer range version that gets 100km. In France it is considered in the same category as a 125cc bike so if you have your car licence for over 2 years you can ride it. If you haven't been insured for a 125cc bike before 2011 you have to pass a certificate thingy.

20 kmh in 1.5 seconds - um yeah. When I am riding flat out in town in assistance level 5 the bike does accelerate very quickly. But I don't have the nerve to look down and see how fast I am going at 1.5 seconds off the line, I'm watching out for traffic... I got 100km from a full charge once...

My whole bike cost that. But you have a strong pound and we a weak euro. You can make a very good pedelec which competes with big name brands performance wise for much less using a kit. My kit was marked as "road legal" and not road legal because there is no way of sticking the required EN...

Will adopt dusty 2 year old iPad, no questions asked, will pay postage :rolleyes:

Yes but... I remember you asking me why I wanted to use battery power to turn a hub dynamo... The raw numbers give us something to chew on that is not an up in the air "I feel drag, how much is there?" I have just discovered for the first time in my life bike gear changers that work properly so...

happy birthday flecc!:)

There is a Dutch or Belgian bloke/boffin who did the tests in his lab (sorry didn't mark the URL again...) and in order compared to a fixed gear: Derailleur Rohloff Nexus 8 inter Alfine and Nuvinci are the least efficient with losses of around 14% That is testing on a machine, not the...

There are nice s-pedelec helmets on the market. By nice I mean offering some protection, being comfortable and not looking like you have put an upturned egg basket on your head... Having a few km under my belt what is the show stopper for me for the moment is s-pedelec range. If you are doing a...

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2977655/sustainable-it/as-energy-push-accelerates-battery-costs-set-to-plunge-60.html Even 50% off todays prices would be fine with me, but I need that price today not in 2020... :(