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    New Kalkhoff S Pedelec

    I used to have a Kalkhoff S- Pedelec with the Impulse motor. Despite all the issues with the Impulse motor, it was a great bike. Its gone now and I have been getting by with a bike with a cytronex kit. Its great for what it is, but it cannot do long steep hills in North Wales ( overheating)...
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    Opinions on reliability of Impulse 2 motor and Nexus gears

    Did you get it working again afterwards??
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    Do police even bother to check if an e-bike is legal?

    Lets not forget that there is at least one company making legal full throttle e-bikes.The others could do it if they wished. https://wisperbikes.com/full-throttle-option/
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    Riding ebike in the rain

    Not so good on a windy day though!
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    Newbie - always wanted an ebike but failed with Swytch

    Similar concept but much better engineering and customer service is the Cytronex. https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/best-electric-bike-conversion-kits-give-your-current-bike-a-power-boost/
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    Wisper Onto my 5th e-bike now

    I hope you have made a good choice Simon, because we have ordered exactly the same bike for my wife. It will be her 4th ebike for one reason or another. The full throttle is important to her for health reasons, although the 15.5mph limitation is an iritation when riding with others who can go a...
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    How to replace Kalkhoff Impulse motor

    Hmm, - the broken one is an s-pedelec whereas the new one isn't, so I was hoping to leave the control system unchanged. The units look identical from the outside!
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    How to replace Kalkhoff Impulse motor

    Well - its done 4000 miles for me and I have the second motor in my shed at no extra cost. But you think I would be better spending another 3K+ right now? I think its worth a try to get it running again.
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    How to replace Kalkhoff Impulse motor

    The impulse motor on my Kalkhoff has finally given up - it now has short periods when the pedals turn but there is no drive to the wheels. This can only get worse so it seems I need a new motor. It so happens that we have another, but rarely used Kalhoff, also with an impulse motor, in the...
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    Replacement battery for discontinued bike ‍♂️

    We had a battery recelled by these people. I can honestly say that the recelled battery is better than the original battery that came with the bike . You just send them your old battery and it comes back rebuilt a week or two later. https://www.electricbikebatteryrepairs.co.uk/
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    Wanted looking for mid motor bike with throttle control - 18-20" frame

    You haven't given us a lot to go on - budget, range, weight, terrain, etc - but this might be worth looking at to start with https://wooshbikes.co.uk/?santana-cd My wife has one, often does 50 - 60 mile rides over some big hills in N Wales, but uses 2 batteries due to her lack of strength and...
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    Bike for a 70 year old.

    Its not just getting the bike up to the roof, but also the loading on your roof. You need to check the manufacturer's max roof loading recommendations. I would have thought you would be better to put it in the caravan when towing and buy a towbar mounted rack for when you are not. Thule make...
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    Hello from Manchester

    15.5AH should be enough to do that commute many times over!
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    n+1 pedelec bike with throttle required.

    Hi Tony, thanks, but I still couldn't work out how to add an additional battery, anyway no problem, we have ordered the bike by phone this morning, arriving Thursday!
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    n+1 pedelec bike with throttle required.

    Hi Kirstin - thanks, and yes, but! Firstly that isn't the bike I was interested in - the Santana CD is a quite different bike to the Santana3 you have provided the link for. One is a hub motor and the other a crank motor. Here is the correct one http://wooshbikes.co.uk/?santana-2018 However this...
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    n+1 pedelec bike with throttle required.

    Thanks for the information, and we have now had a test ride on one of the Santana CD bikes. We are a little confused about the battery situation - there is nothing we can find on your web site which indicates that you have a 17AH battery for the bikes with a rack mounted battery, nor on your...
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    Cheaper supplementary batteries?

    I wonder if anyone had experimented with this sort of battery to supplement their ebike power. It claims to be a 12AH Lithium Ion battery for £70 which is dramatically less than an ebike battery. I am not sure how this works with different voltages - does this equate to just 4AH on a 36V...
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    n+1 pedelec bike with throttle required.

    Did she have an answer?
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    n+1 pedelec bike with throttle required.

    Thanks for that, good point about the hub gears being less necessary when there is a throttle. Southend is a long way away from The Wirral - is there anywhere nearer we could fix a test ride?
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    n+1 pedelec bike with throttle required.

    My wife has a Kalkhoff Agattu ebike which she loves to ride - although the motor gets a bad press for reliability we have had no problems with ours so far. However she has very limited strength and finds many hills which she simply cannot ride up with the pedelec system on the Kakhoff. We often...