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    Questions about a Bafang front hub build

    It is not a surcharge it is duty and VAT. Would the paying of legitimate import duty and VAT affect your buying decision ?
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    City of London E Cop!

    Well done David, your bike now joins an every growing list of electric bikes being used by the police around the UK, A few I know of, London parks police, Dover harbour police, Birmingham airport police, lancashire police, Bristol police, Wiltshire police, North wales police. I am sure there...
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    electric bike book

    Name the European manufactures who don't have their electric bikes made in china. Would also like to see his list of Japanese built bikes available in the UK. Just shows his lack of real in depth knowledge of the electric bike trade. I have always found David to be biased towards pedelec...
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    New Battery 'Fair' Prices

    this whole thread sounds like an advert good old fashioned heavy cheap lead acid batteries
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    E-bike lights

    not being funny pump, but i think you should consider other road users before you decide to ride at night Dan
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    E-bike lights

    Is your night vision so impared that you would not be able to drive a car at night. If this is the case should you be riding a bike at night
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    Harley Davidson electric bike

    thought this might interest you mike
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    Electric bike choices?

    0ne point, the sellers feed back is only 12 over the last 12 months and none for electric bikes...ask him for the name of other buyers so you can check what they think....also a bike with a 48 volt lipo4 battery for £649.00 seems to good to be true
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    Electric bicycle range reaching the 100 mile mark?

    5 hours on a Ebike why would you want to ?
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    Is there merit in buying an optimate or are they a waste of £££

    For an electric bike you need deep cycle batteries with thick plates....I dought that these batteries will be correct, they are going to be for loat charge applications....Good SLA batteries for an electric bike are going to set you back around £110....DONT BUY CHEAP SLA batteries. try Bernie...
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    Illegal Bikes

    It was not a drink drive case. The defendant was appealing against being given six points on his licence for having no insurance. I was not in court and all judge Harrow said when he emailed me after the case was "when I showed the result of my research to the prosecuting counsel, we allowed...
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    Illegal Bikes

    2002 high court in London Letita Winter V DPP Winter claimed an electric city bug scooter was an electric bike because it had pedals fitted to the front wheels. The court found that although the city bug was fitted with pedals, they were not able to be used as a primary form of power and so...
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    Sakura S305 running at full throttle

    95% chance it is the controller, what part of the country are you
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    Ebike Problems?

    are you sure that is the specification for a powabyke 24 speed commuter...it says 24 volt ? currie electro-drive system ? diamond frame ? 7 speed ?
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    Ebike Problems?

    Flecc a question; I understand that powabyke do not use a BMS in their lithium X bykes, if they don't need one how can it be an essential part of the battery
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    36v Bulbs?

    you will need 40 volt bulbs not 36 volt on a 36 volt battery
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    Wisper: could the '1 revolution rule' be changed?

    Not designed as a safety feature, it was designed to reduce the drain on the battery. The most energy is drained from the battery when going from standstill, by only engaging the power when the bike reached 3.3 kph it incresed the range. When it was realised that some people would find that...
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    Looking for a powerful brushless freewheel hub motor

    I have a 48 volt 1500 watt electric scooter that we have used for spare parts, it has a number of body panels lights and batteries removed however the frame wiring motor wheels controller are all ok top speed is 30 mph, you are welcome to make an offer all of it or any parts.....send me a PM...
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    Powabyke breakdown - help sought

    another part to check on the popwabyke is the 7 pin connector on the controller....this can get hot and ends up with a bad connection
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    If you could give me just 1 tip - what would it be?

    Buy from your local bike shop if you can.