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And in your case it seems a near perfect partnership. I think with any e-bike it takes time for an owner to understand and get the best out of it, partnering it effectively. .

Exactly, I've been putting up with all you lot for almost ten years and well over 31,000 posted responses, but am completely unstressed by that. I even work on another forum simultaneously giving answers to the general public. You post as you want about anything you like, I'll just treat it...

Exactly, you make it easy. If you don't put any pedal effort into a legal e-bike, few of them will climb anything over 10% and many can only make a 7%. Legal e-bikes help, but riders still need to be cycling fit to tackle hills worthy of the name. .

I'm sure that's true, I often get relatively unfit over the winter period and struggle at first in the Spring, but a month of two later with more regular riding sees me enjoying powering up hills at speed. .

Don't worry too much about the bike type, you will get fitter as you persist and the bikes wil be ok then. Don't forget that though you felt you were reasonably fit already, that was not cycling fit, since cycling uses different muscle sets than those used in other activities. You'll soon be...

That is the case, ultimately it's about the very limited power of legal e-bike motors. It's around a third to a half of a horse power at hill climbing speeds with an average rider, and the technical 746 watts per horse power represents a rather small horse. Even a whole medium size real horse...

Not with the motorcycle chains that Yamdude mentions, since their modern chains are O ring or X ring types that seal in the manufacturers grease where it matters. Surface oil applied can only affect the chain rollers and sprocket surfaces, not the inner parts of the chain. .

Not really a mixed message since there is a crucial difference. Motor vehicles require the driver to be tested for competence and a driving licence held. There is no such equivalent for pedelecs and the S-pedelecs create a confusing crossover situation, having moped like performance but no...

Ther have been two cases. In the one in which I was involved in assisting BEBA, a traffic officer wanted to prosecute an e-biker after an accident on the grounds that his 250 watt bike didn't accord to the 200 watt limit at the time.. With my advice the prosecution was called into question, so...

I often wonder that too. Even in my unpowered cycling days when the chain took all the drive load, I often replaced a bike after years of use before a chain and sprockets wore out. And that certainly wasn't because I had some magical chain maintenance secret, mine was much closer to the...

That's not a hub motor, they go in the centre of a wheel. Yours is a crank drive unit, sometimes abbreviated as CD. It's not possible to say from afar what the trouble might be, though it's clearly an internal crank unit or battery one. The fact that it happened so abruptly tends to make the...

You're in D8ve, riding on Rams Hill. Map Link .

You're in Nick, riding on the B3230 by Indicknowle Farm. Map Link .

With no BMS to do it, these really do benefit from user limitation of upper charge extreme of course. They're also good for performance as you say, but at the cost of much shorter lives than our regular managed batteries. No r/c lipo will power an e-bike over five full years of use in the way...

Your mistake is in overvaluing that advice. All their science and experiment are based on the testing of cells, not systems. Our e-bikes use complete systems which are often designed as an integrated whole and adequately protect the batteries from charge extremes damage. The greatest damage...

Unfair! Yes, I am a pessimistic concerning the adoption of pure EVs for purely practical reasons, but I would strongly support your idea regarding solar energy. Any measure which increases our present pathetic level of solar PV is worthwhile, and if it increases pure EVs uptake, so much the...

I very much doubt that. We have many members who always charge to full and get as much as 5 full years of daily use out of their batteries, far better than the average. The key things are the quality of the battery and its specification relative to the current draw, and the management system...

I really hope so, but judging by the dithering over Hinckley Point currently and delay in even facilitating build of the other intended stations, it will be the 2030s before we start to receive power in any quantity from them. Meanwhile a return to the power cuts of the 1970s seems more in...

The 40% charge for storage only has value if storage is at very low temperature, close to zero degrees C. At room temperatures it makes little if any difference. If you've discharged around a quarter or more of the capacity, it's worth topping up the charge. The bike will always be ready to...

I already understood that, but as admitted, the refining is not only for petrol and diesel. Substitution of refining in favour of electric cars can only work if we abandon all the other products, including the vast quantities of plastics we now depend on and the vast quantities of fertilisers...