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And apparently there are Internet forums where you can get readily get technical advice on how to turn a 'legal' pedelec into an 'illegal' one.

True, but it makes sense to reduce risk where possible\practible. Yes my house its full of electrical appliances that could catch fire. Not so easy or practible to move them all to the shed at a the bottom of the garden.

If you hack into this remote control software can you set fire to the battery ...................

The program followed the classic British narrative; there is a problem, so tighter regulations are needed. Rather than attempt to shift the blame to the lack of regulations why not simply say; lets introduce proper and widespread enforcement of the existing regulations and see if the situation...

Ah, so my titanium framed e-bike is no longer alone.

Agreed. Put your self in the position of the hotel manager. Even if the eBike looks like a 'proper' eBike, how can the average hotel manager know if the battery used is not one of those that a DIY novice has 'repaired' following advice after a few posts on an eBike\Pedelec Internet forum. I...

If their bikes are within the legal limits then the owners should have nothing to worry about.

Seizing 'illegal' electric bikes is good publicity for the Police of course. But are they following up by prosecuting the owners ? And especially prosecuting those that have driving licenses for using a vehicle without insurance etc. I would imagine that if you in future want to insure a...

Overall they might be an OK supplier. But the Motor wheels they were supplying, specifically listed as for the Brompton, were not using standard Brompton rims, so some Brompton tyres would blow out. Might not be an issue for some I guess. They seemed completely not interested when this was...

Check the settings you printed, C1 does look wrong, so there might be other errors too.

Plus VAT I think. Who knows, they may have been in the past, but this is a far East supplier so who can know what they are doing now. Maybe, maybe not.

Woosh do Brompton conversion kits, circa £500 with battery. UK supplier. TopBikeKit do Brompton conversion kits, without battery, but at £320 are outside of your budget. On Aliexpress.

Do you need to fold the Brompton for storage etc ?

Have you already worked out where and how the battery you have is going to fit ?

I would not charge a e-Bike battery in my house, end of. And definitely not unattended. I once had a moped, I did not store that in the house or bring it into the house to fill it with petrol.

Well asking advice is fine. But you cannot redact the appropriate advice to a couple of sentences in an Internet post, yet some people try. If you were buying a 'repaired' battery, most people might might expect that the person doing the repair had some formal qualifications or...

For sure it is. And most often the advice should be, you dont know enough about the subject, you cannot become an expert by reading a couple of internet posts, so dont even attempt the repair. Yet still the 'advice' is given.

I would not want such a battery either. If the battery were 'recovered' by someone very experienced at recovering batteries, then maybe. But how often do people, who are clearly beginners, go onto public Internet forums and get advice on how to recover a battery .............

Technically moving away from the Swytch controller\battery bag is not difficult, even I have managed it. The Swytch Motor wheel on a Brompton can be used with a standard KT controller, PAS, inline brake switches, and the LCD4 controller is a neat fit on the handlbars. There is a lot of detail...

Yes, but thats London. Read this thread and you could get the impression that the risk of an eBike fire outside London is so small you can forget about it.