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Hi Folks, I've been offered a freebee "Raleigh Select" by a mate, he has used it for retrieving free flight model planes at meetings around Britain, but the batteries have died and he has bought a new machine. A quick search on the internet shows it may be a museum piece, but I can't find...

These motors come in a range of speed options from the highest geared (I think) 160 rpm motors for 700c wheels to the lowest geared 260 rpm for the Brompton sized wheels (whatever they are). Do the manufacturers, Tongxin actually make motors with differing internal mechanical ratios? I would...

I've got no recommendations here, this is more by way of an observation, although more experienced ebikers than me may want to give their sixpenn'orth. I've found that lateral, ie sideways stiffness is of great importance, if the carrier can move sideways it seems to begin to oscillate out of...

Hi folks, I also have a Nano powered Falcon 700c rimmed lightweight, in addition to the Powabyke I'm moaning about. The Nano has been off the road for a few weeks 'cos the ESC (Electronic Speed Controller) had fried. Tony Castles now has had a delivery from Tongxin after problems with Chinese...

Well, after looking at various postings on this site, and prompted by the death of motor number 4 on my Currie, I took delivery today of a new Powabyke 24 speed commuter. These are first impressions and should not be taken as a complete and full road test, I'll report in detail at a later...

To the scrapheap! I'm now disgusted at the unreliability of the BMC400 motor as used on Currie kits. I've given the thing every chance, but there is such a pattern of unreliability I don't know how such a product could ever have come to the market. First BMC400 burst into flames after a...

Hi, All here seem to speak well of Powabykes, does anyone have a definitive measure of battery life? Not "I had mine for 5 years and it was fine" - yes, but you may have only used it once a month!, but an idea of how many charge and complete discharge cycles you get from a battery before it...

Hi Folks. I've got a Nano powered Falcon, which after 4 good months use has lunched it's speed controller. Simon at Systems at Work assures me Tony and he are dealing with the problem. I'm looking at alternatives however. Has anyone found an alternative sensorless speed controller which...