Two words.
Bitterly Disappointed.
You can't fault Frank Curran's customer service, he's a great bloke, but the product just doesn't stand up.
My bike has been through three controllers, two throttles and has a badly scuffed battery due to it t leaping off of the frame at the slightest hint of a rut in the road.
In August I was having problems with the Powabyke taking off without warning. Turn on the controller and the front wheel would whizz away without even a touch on the throttle. I (as well as my local powabyke dealer) was convinced that once again a control box had failed, however Powabyke believed that the throttle had become magnetised and needing replacing. Powabyke sent out a new throttle unit under warranty. The dealer fitted the throttle under protest, but lo and behold it appeared to have worked. I rode home that night with a bike that behaved exactly as it should.
Now, I should add, that I'd become so sick and tired of things going wrong with the bike that I'd decided to purchase Aldby's Ezee Torq2 as it was going for a hell of a good price. So, the Friday I rode the X6 home from the dealer was the last time I'd ridden it, until today. Today I finally had some spare time to get the X6 out of the shed and give it a spruce up prior to trying to sell it. I gave it a clean, degreased the chain, and once everything was spick and span decided to take it for a quick spin. I've been carefully charging the battery every 3 weeks or so to try and maintain it, so had no worries there.
Took the bike up the road, got to the junction, closed the throttle, lovely. Opened the throttle again just to get a bit of traction, closed it again and carried on going. Rode it up and down the road and sure enough the old problem is still there. Close the throttle the power stays on. That's totally and utterly unsafe!
Somehow the throttle has become mysteriously 'magnetised' again. It's out of warranty now and is pretty much unsellable unless I spend god only knows how much on getting it fixed. I have an £800.00 lump of crap taking up space in my shed.
Bitterly disappointed.
Bitterly Disappointed.
You can't fault Frank Curran's customer service, he's a great bloke, but the product just doesn't stand up.
My bike has been through three controllers, two throttles and has a badly scuffed battery due to it t leaping off of the frame at the slightest hint of a rut in the road.
In August I was having problems with the Powabyke taking off without warning. Turn on the controller and the front wheel would whizz away without even a touch on the throttle. I (as well as my local powabyke dealer) was convinced that once again a control box had failed, however Powabyke believed that the throttle had become magnetised and needing replacing. Powabyke sent out a new throttle unit under warranty. The dealer fitted the throttle under protest, but lo and behold it appeared to have worked. I rode home that night with a bike that behaved exactly as it should.
Now, I should add, that I'd become so sick and tired of things going wrong with the bike that I'd decided to purchase Aldby's Ezee Torq2 as it was going for a hell of a good price. So, the Friday I rode the X6 home from the dealer was the last time I'd ridden it, until today. Today I finally had some spare time to get the X6 out of the shed and give it a spruce up prior to trying to sell it. I gave it a clean, degreased the chain, and once everything was spick and span decided to take it for a quick spin. I've been carefully charging the battery every 3 weeks or so to try and maintain it, so had no worries there.
Took the bike up the road, got to the junction, closed the throttle, lovely. Opened the throttle again just to get a bit of traction, closed it again and carried on going. Rode it up and down the road and sure enough the old problem is still there. Close the throttle the power stays on. That's totally and utterly unsafe!
Somehow the throttle has become mysteriously 'magnetised' again. It's out of warranty now and is pretty much unsellable unless I spend god only knows how much on getting it fixed. I have an £800.00 lump of crap taking up space in my shed.
Bitterly disappointed.
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