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    Heartbroken family pay tribute to teen 'who loved going out with mates' after e-bike crash

    Just take a look at the caliber of people who make our laws....... Take a look at their inclination to legislate at every opportunity. Take a look at their obvious desire to tie up the people they govern in the name of with pointless, useless bureaucracy. After thinking about these issues...
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    wisper strange battery issue!

    I think he is right about many forums and certainly about individual posters - and it isn't just facebook where this happens. I spent some time a couple of years ago on a motorbike forum and some of the advice and modifications that were being confidently expounded there were absolutely wrong...
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    Heartbroken family pay tribute to teen 'who loved going out with mates' after e-bike crash

    Well said. The desire for new rules and restrictions to regulate <insert object name here> whenever some moron does something horrible or dangerous, is a disease a proportion of Brits seem to suffer from. Ban it! Make them have a license! Tax them! Wrap them up in bureaucracy! It is entirely...
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    Heartbroken family pay tribute to teen 'who loved going out with mates' after e-bike crash

    Ow! It hurt me to watch that and I feel very sorry for the kid. His parents should be in jail. In spite of his pain and distress, that little lad is very lucky to be walking about howling after a crash like that. He must have hit that solid gate at more than twenty miles an hour!
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    Battery dies quickly, next stop scrappy ?

    Give that man ten gold stars! :)) I could never just 'chuck' a battery or anything else without trying to find out exactly what went wrong with it, and whether I could fix it. Then, I would have a think about what else it could do for me. The battery may be improving, so I would give it a...
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    Battery dies quickly, next stop scrappy ?

    Thanks. I can't swear to the exact accuracy of my account of the overall battery voltage or the low point I found. I made the comment from memory the best I can. This was a couple of years ago, so you are probably right on the your remark above in the first paragraph of your response. Your...
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    Battery dies quickly, next stop scrappy ?

    This might or might not help, but could the battery be badly out of balance in the voltage between the series cell groups? I have a battery which went way out of balance one winter when I left it alone because the overall voltage was about 38 volts. I didn't just leave it in the garage unloved...
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    Individual Vehicle Approval

    What a TOTAL mess this country has become. I was listening to You and Yours at lunchtime. The programme was about the massive problems people were facing with probate when relatives or friends died. You have to get probate to deal with the possessions of the deceased and to administer their...
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    Adding second battery

    I've never done this but I have seen some worrying videos about the risks that can come from connecting two big batteries in parallel. I only mention this to add to your warning tone here. As I understand it, you can create a huge current flow between the two batteries if they are at different...
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    Cycle helmet (again)

    They are REALLY heavy by comparison to a cycling helmet - AND expensive.
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    BBS motor with Gates belt...

    I'd be interested to find out how the SA hub would stand up to the power of a 250 watt crank motor. I had one on a counterfeit Brompton I had about 15 years ago. I rode that set up 4000 miles before I retired it, but it only had to deal with my own power output, and being a 16 inch wheel, I...
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    Individual Vehicle Approval

    I wonder if anyone here has had experience of police troubling any sensible kit e-bike rider, who was riding along, pedalling at around 15 miles an hour? I'd have thought that given the parlous state of our society these days, the police might spend time attending crimes like burglary, rather...
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    Cycle helmet (again)

    Glad you didnt break your teeth or get even more hurt.
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    Cycle helmet (again)

    I like what you say here in many ways, but these days, I generally do wear a helmet, though I never did until my mid 60s, except on motorbikes. This next point is so vague that it is almost anecdotal, but I do remember reading of some research which made it clear that motorists passed by closer...
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    Cycle helmet (again)

    Yeah - you really don't want a bad knock on the head. I ride motorbikes more than I ride my electric bike and every year, I dread coming off them more and more. I've pretty much given up riding the busy A roads unless I have to, and prefer riding my new Royal Enfield 350 around absolutely empty...
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    Battery Fires

    No need to feel guilty at all. I certainly don't. I use my car when it is the most efficient or practical transport, and at other times, I ride motorbikes (100 mpg) or my bike. My car only does about 6K or 7k a year. The one I just got rid of averaged 62 mpg over the last year (diesel) and the...
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    Battery Fires

    The range on those Leaf cars has really improved hasn't it. One of my sons bought a second hand e. car. Maybe a citroen? Not sure. He likes it, but the range is pretty short - about 60 miles. It isn't a problem. He only uses it to get to work - about ten miles, and he can charge it free in the...
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    Battery Fires

    This is not a mature technology yet, is it. So many ways it can become unreliable or as in this case very dangerous. I was just reading an article in the Guardian about the experience of a Renault electric car owner being quoted £7500 for the replacement of the charging module in his car because...
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    Bike Repairs

    Throttle is handy when pulling away - especially up hill. Apart from starting, I only use it on the worst hills. I am wary of over stressing the mosfets in the controller. If the bike is set at a high PAS level, the current flys up when I push that lever. I try to keep the duration of 500+...
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    Bike Repairs

    That is useful too. Thanks. I don't feel like I need to increase power levels, though I might experiment, but I am a wee bit concerned about the fact that as the bike came to me, if it is set on high levels of PAS (5 or 9 depending on how you set it on the display) it will motor on up to over...