Search results

The previous Raleigh e-bikes, models Leeds and Leicester using the Panasonic crank motor and made by Derby Cycles gmbh who also make Kalkhoffs had a two year warranty, including the battery. Your Raleigh Velo City is now Dutch made by a different group and hub motor of course and may only have...

Painting it black is worse, it will increase the heat absorption. Painting it white will deflect heat, but of course that wouldn't be stealthy. .

Or click on Resources in the title line and then click on Search in the dropdown list that appears. .

Hello Jeremy, welcome to the pedelecs forum. On your questions I've been following this issue over many years and can answer many points: 1. Are throttle controls now 'illegal' either when used with a PAS or without - do any EU manufactured bikes actually ship with throttle controls or are...

Here's some threads containing members recommendations for insurance, plus a couple of commercial offers previously posted: Thread 1 Thread 2 Thread 3 Thread 4 Thread 5 Cycleplan Bikesure I do my own indexing on the side! :cool: .

Yes, they have e-bikes in Australia, and some Australians here in London remarked to a reporter that it wasn't hot, just pleasant. Any trouble of this sort is more likely to be shaky plug-in connections failing when they get hot. . .

On this link it's explained on my website, two photos and text illustrate the ways, the second cosmetically preferable. Also on my site is this article on extending a case, a method which can also be used for repairs. .

Just unplug and replug those connections and you'll probably find the problem has disappeared. .

These motors are always notchy when turned backwards, since the internal freewheel is locked then. It's just the rotor magnets tugging at the poles as they pass. .

Me too from 11 years old in even bigger doses. Five and a half days of morning and evening paper rounds with the small front wheel and low platform version of those heavy trade bikes. Saturday for the butchers delivering weekend joints and collecting the cash, using the larger wheel and front...

The message is spreading, today's BBC Radio 4 program "You and Yours" had a discussion about these deaths. The downside as usual was a government spokesman avoiding the gender aspect by speaking of the generic actions the government is taking, mentioning spending one billion pounds nationally...

It is indeed all about relative fitness. Despite my very long term interest in power assisted cycling techhnology, I was always an unpowered cyclist and still very fit at 67. That was when I first bought an e-bike to help with heavy goods trailer pulling in my hilly area. That was the start...

Yes, Schlumpf are extremely expensive, which maybe will change now with competition. .

Not innovative though, Schlumpf Innovations have been supplying two speed crank drives for many years, both up or down gearing, speed drive or mountain drive. .

No, as ever. On the BBC TV program "The Sunday Politics", MP Jeremy Corbyn raised the female v truck death problem, only for my MP, Gavin Barwell, to deliberately steer the discussion onto trucks, repeating the impractical suggestions of low front cabs and side fences and also talking about...

I don't tend to get repeat calls from the pretend Microsoft scammers. When they ring and tell me I have a computer problem, I just say in a surprised voice, "I don't have a computer". There follows a nonplussed silence, followed by the disconnect click. .

I can understand them thinking that, since cracked battery casings through dropping them are not uncommon, I've suffered two. One was down to the delivery service as shown here, but the other was down to me. That was when I was riding very fast down a long steep bumpy hill and I only realised...

You may have seen the posts we sometimes get from a new member asking for an e-bike that will take them up steep hills, at times without pedalling when they feel tired, knees hurting etc. Clearly they have the wrong idea about e-bikes, thinking of them as powered vehicles with pedalling merely...

Yes, I like the Avid stuff, I've often used their V brake pads and prices for their products are very low

Many sprockets, particularly Shimano, have ridges stamped into the sides to assist with gear changing, the idea being that the ramps help to lift the chain as it's pressed inboard by the rear mechanism. If your chain has slightly excessive rivet projection on the inside, that can lift the chain...