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Errrr, I can't remember but I think there wasn't enough movement with the slots on the carrier to get the supports outside the frame. There again, I might have just not spotted that it was a good idea :o

...and finally A try up and down the road showed it all worked, so time for a serious test. There's a short sharp hill nearby - perhaps 150 metres long, so off we went, plus the camera. Here's the result My daughter was pedaling that time and reached the top at about 11 mph without trying...

The flat handlebars arrived so work continued. Installation of brakes and throttle was straightforward and the wiring was routed back to the controller. As this is a ladies-style frame rather than an MTB with crossbar, the main motor cable could do with being a couple of inches longer but we...

Time to sort the carrier now. It seems the carrier is designed to suit bikes with smaller wheels/frames as the front fixings didn't reach the saddle stem pinch bolt which is the attachment place I've seen in most other examples. Luckily there were two handy holes in the frame where the...

@John - Quite right. That photo was taken before I reduced the height of the lug. The next picture shows how I held the torque washer that is captive on the wire so I could file that one's lug down. I laid the wheel on the bench, taped the washer and nut out of the way (yellow tape in...

@NRG Thanks for the tip on images; I'll see if I can go back and edit. Yes, I could put a horseshoe washer behind the right fork, I was concerned it might not stay put. Also (from experience) as the right fork is "stronger" than the left, and adding washers there moves the wheel across in the...

Part 5... Issue No 2: For some reason, the holes for the mudguard fixings are about 8.3mm diameter. With the motor fitted there is no room on the inside of the forks for the head of a bolt. Some searching in my fasteners stock turned up some countersink-head M5 screws which sit nicely flush. A...

Part 4... Fork modification continued You can see from the attached photos how the left dropout has been filed a bit deep, it has two washers fitted between torque washer and hub. The right is not quite deep enough for full engagement of the torque washer, but more depth would have meant the...

Part 3 ... Modifying the dropouts This is the bit that requires care. The dropouts in the forks are 9mm and the axle on the Bafang motor is 12mm dia with 10mm flats so it requires 10mm wide dropouts. The motor comes with a pair of torque washers and it's important that these are snugly engaged...

part 2... Things I did first: - charge the battery. It took three hours for the charger light to change from red to green. Given the warnings about not storing batteries discharged, it will be interesting to get a rough idea what three hours charging means in terms of the state of the...

I promised I would post some pictures and notes of my progress through the modification of my daughter's Peugot ladies road/touring bike, so here it is. I'll start with some observations on the bike, the kit as received and then move on to the conversion job. Hopefully this will be interesting...

Thanks for the replies everyone, @Alex728: that's a very useful link: explains a lot of what I'm finding @monster: well, the metric dimensions of many things (apart from cycle parts) turn out to be inches converted to the nearest metric equivalent @oldtimer: It just shows that if you...

I'm working on converting my daughter's 1986-ish Peugot ladies tourer with an alien 36v kit which comes with pedelec and twist throttle (pics of our progress will be in another post). The bike has drop handlebars which she uses and would like to keep, but could be talked out of if it is too much...

I've just received an Alien 36v 10Ah kit. The controller has (amongst others) three cables of two wires each, which might be for Hall sensors. The wiring diag is on their site and shows these as "unused" and the Bafang motor SB QWSXB2 has no connections for these (3 wires only). My controller...