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Haibike sDuro HardSeven SL 2015 Yamaha 11 year Update. The photographs are from a new route that continues along The River Wey Tow path to The New Inn pub at Send where I continue the ride to Woking on occasion for my mostly monthly get together of retired rail workers at The Railway club there. Transmission Well the new transmission I put on around the 23rd of March last year 2025 is knackered but working, though it will need to be replaced very soon . So that transmission with new Cassette, chain ring, chain, and jockey wheels, has lasted a more normal year of regular and constant use including a lot of off road miles. Like the previous transmission I put a new chain on so I have used up two chains. I will keep using it until it starts skipping in the top gear cog but cannot see that lasting too much longer. Battery The new battery and charger that I bought on the 9th of September 2024 are working as they should. Motor Nothing to report and all working as it should since my motor was refurbished by Peter at Performance line bearings around the 18th of November 2022 . Wear and tear The usual replacement of brake pads as needed and swapping over/cleaning degreasing chains. The rear tyre may need to be replaced quite soon. The front also may need to be replaced as well. However no punctures. Replacements The control unit and centre holder to which my removable display slots into became faulty. I contacted Ebike shop Farnham who recommended fitting a new one, got hold of one within a few days and replaced it, after which everything worked properly again. Very prompt service for a bespoke part for a bike over 10 years old was very impressive. My Tektro rear brake handlebar oil reservoir developed a slight leak. A local bike mechanic I had come across and been impressed by had a look, bled it. topped it up. and fitted a small o ring seal with my slight assistance that cured the leak. Charged nothing. The same bike mechanic changed my headset bearings. I dropped the bike off and he rang me before I got home to say it was done and ready to collect. So I turned the car around and went back and got the bike. Again very impressive. He is so good and reasonable that he is making me lazy and I got him to change my gear cable. Conclusion Like last year I am aware that this update fulfils little purpose other than for my own benefit. One thing about last years and this years updates is how they highlight the benefit of buying from a good local dealer that has allowed me to obtain bespoke replacement parts very easily to keep my now eleven year old bike on the road. The bike is still as it always has been great fun and very capable. Lots of off road fun, and lots of shopping trips, quite often the two combined. My young son and I had a great three day trip away together to the seaside. Staying in a B&B in the glorious Torquay. My son works for The railway as I did and this allowed us to travel free with our bikes to Exeter. The plan then had been to ride out of Exeter on the river To Dawlish Warren enjoying the relatively mostly flat cycle path route and then catch a Train to Torquay to avoid lots of climbing and a quite busy and narrow A road. Unfortunately a suicide led to the line being closed for a few hours and we had to ride the whole way a distance of just over 25 miles with a lot of climbing after Dawlish Warren. We made it and it all added to the adventure. I also took my Bike on the train to Petersfield to climb Butser Hill via a track called Limekiln a spectacular climb with amazing views.

Hi, I am intrigued by the claims of cheaper harder wearing components made by cues system and could consider it for my 9 speed Haibike. My problem is I tend to buy good quality drive train components that fit my bike when I see genuine bargains, and have two narrow wide 38 tooth chain rings from a batch I bought, that last a minimum of a year and sometimes two. So I need to wait to get through those before changing!

I bought a second hand 1995 Honda VFR 750 motorbike, with the mighty RC36 V4 engine with gear driven cams, in 2003. I think it had about 16,000 miles on it. The previous owner had changed the chain and sprockets and had put on a very heavy duty O ring chain. I still own that bike, now with 48,500 miles on it. The chain is still fine. This on a motorcycle with a hundred horsepower that I have used every one of on many occasions. I keep it clean oiled and tensioned, but that's it.

I am now doing this with my chains. With quick links its easy to take them off. I Run a couple of chains. The one I take off I de-grease in petrol, wipe clean with a rag, hanging the chain from a branch of a tree so it is vertical, and then store the chain in an oil bath of ep 80w 90 gear oil in an old Chinese take away container. When its time to swap over due to muck etc, I hang the chain from the oil bath from the branch to drip excess oil off back into the container underneath placed on newspaper to catch any missing drips. This way the oil gets right into the chain. Its also much easier to clean the rear derailleur, jockey wheels, cassette, and chain ring with the chain removed.

I use my local train service a lot, taking my Haibike Yamaha with me. On the network I use (South Western Railway) electric scooters are banned but not electric bikes. As has been discussed in other threads many battery fires seem to be associated with the delivery bike industry. From never seeing an electric delivery bike on a train, I am now seeing them quite regularly. I am also seeing the odd badly lashed together conversion on board. I love combining the use of my electric bike with the railway, but I fear that a battery fire on a train from a delivery bike or lashed together conversion is currently a matter of luck and once one happens I can see a knee jerk reaction could easily lead to a ban of all electric bikes. So I can see why some train operators might see a greater risk from conversion electric bikes and try to mitigate that risk by banning them. They are probably also taking the pragmatic view that their staff might be able to recognise the difference between a converted electric bike and a purpose built one. It is unfair to the majority of responsible owners of conversion electric bikes but I can see the thought processes of train operators who take this approach. The risk of fire on a train is very serious as most modern trains have windows and doors that cannot be opened easily and a combined heating and air conditioning systems that are automatic and would spread fumes and can only be isolated by the driver, so a lithium battery fire with associated fumes would represent a very serious situation.

I was just browsing the pedelec sight on my phone while waiting for a train when, there was the front light I had just purchased and received in the last week or so. I checked the effected batch numbers against my light when I got home and fortunately my light is not one of them. I am not a prolific buyer of lithium rechargeable front lights as I have found if you look after them they seem to last a very long time. Thanks for posting.

A 15mph blanket limit is more restrictive than our situation as the NYC law relates to a speed limit rather than when motor assistance should cease. Even on a gentle negative gradient I can go quite a few miles an hour faster than 15mph with my assistance turned off. On a steeper downhill I can exceed 30mph quite easily with no assistance.

I own a 2015 one and have found that the position of the speed sensor both in terms of distance from magnet and position it passes the sensor is critical, but once found I have had no issues in years of service and high mileage, though it sounds that you have exhaustively checked this. Also you can get strange control issues when the battery in the display starts to run out, so changing that would be a cheap check.

Remember he was talking about E mountain bikes, not road/commuter bikes. The current speed limit cut off is pretty irrelevant off road, but power and how it is delivered is relevant on technical steep climbs. Downhill again the cut off speed and even the need for any assistance at all is almost irrelevant on steep technical descents where it is all about the brakes suspension and handling.

Haibike sDuro HardSeven SL 2015 Yamaha 10 year Update. Taken today with the new transmission and front wheel in evidence. View from the other side Transmission I said in my 9 year update which I posted on March the 29th 2024 that," I fitted a new transmission on the 17th of March 2023, with new Cassette, chain ring, chain, and jockey wheels, as well as a thorough clean of the rear Mech. I put a new chain on at some point during 2023 when the first on reached .5 and then have run through the Winter on that second chain. It is now stretched beyond the point that I can put a new chain on, and i will just run this until I judge it time to change everything. It is still working well, with no skipping under load, but I will need to change everything probably quite soon. This transmission is over a year old now and has around 1,450 miles on it, which includes a high proportion of off road miles, which from my perspective as a heavy rider is a respectable mileage to reach". Well quite remarkably that well worn transmission lasted another year and two years in total. I have just changed it and noted that even by my own wear it till it drops off standards it was very knackered. As previously when I change the transmission it entails a new chain ring, chain, rear cassette, and new jockey wheels. It all looks lovely with nice crisp changes. It will get as hard a life as all my previous transmissions, so this newness will not last long. Out in the snow Battery Well the startling news is that on the 9th of September 2024, I bought a new battery and charger for the bike. The old battery did not fail, but the old charger did. As I had needed to replace the old battery and charger connections myself when they had failed around the 26th of April 2018, and the new charger came with the Yamaha proprietary connectors. I could not therefore attach the new charger to the old battery. I thought I could buy the correct Yamaha connectors for my old battery from ebay, but had to return the connectors I bought after two attempted purchases when they proved not to be able to connect to my new charger. I contemplated buying a generic Yamaha charger to swap the non standard connecter I had used from my old charger over to, so as to allow me to charge the old battery, but would have had to spend a hundred pounds on that new generic charger with every possibility of not connecting it correctly and wasting my money. So the old battery came out of service after 9 and a half years. A slightly ignominious end as the old battery shows a 70% charge and was working perfectly up until my old charger died. I bought the new charger and battery from the bike shop I bought my bike from (Ebike shop Farnham) ,and which were in stock and able to be bought straight away. So no waiting around or lack of availability for a battery/charger combination that is no longer used by Yamaha for a bike that is ten years old. I may have another go at finding a charging solution for my old battery, but for now am just enjoying riding my bike using my new battery and charger. Motor I said last year that I had my motor refurbished by Peter at Performance line bearings around the 18th of November 2022 . It continues to work brilliantly. As all experienced crank drive riders know, keeping water out of the motor is key to its longevity. I had one ride on the tow path of the River Wey where I live where to river had in places flooded the tow path. Turning around where you could not see the junction between the river and the tow path was problematic so I carried on to the next place I could exit the tow path. In places my feet were well into the water at the bottom of the pedal stroke. It seems I have got away with that escapade, but time will tell. Wear and Tear I am still running the Schwalbe Hans Dampf 2.35, run tubeless on the rear that I fitted on the on the 7th of December 2023. I do a lot of off road riding and find it reassuringly tough with good grip. I had been keeping an eye on the wheel bearings of my front wheel as they were showing signs of getting to the end of their life. I had paired this front wheel with a part worn Schwalbe Smart Sam plus tyre I found in the garage. The wheel bearing eventually failed a week or so ago. They are not ones you can replace. Again from my garage I found an Alexrims wheel that I had put on my KTM650B analogue hard tail bike, when I had used its front wheel on my Haibike. So I have put the Alexrims wheel on my Haibike and the worn out bearing wheel on The KTM until I get a replacement. I can easily swap the front wheels over if I fancy a non electric ride on The KTM. One embarrassing part of this saga was that the tyre on the Alexrims wheel was flat and the valve of the presta valve tube seized solid. I tried freeing it up with some WD40 but the following tap from a hammer did not go well. Easy enough at that point to put a new tube in you would have thought. Anyway I just could not get the tyre of the rim. I was getting to the point of potentially using a flat head screwdriver. Not a good idea. Anyway I took the wheel over to a bike shop I really like, and to my embarrassment, the guy just squeezed the tyre off the rim with his thumbs. I must be a wimp. They put some new rim tape on as they said that was not helping and a tube and I drove back and put it on the bike. I changed both the front and rear brake pads in mid January. Conclusion At the age the bike has reached now I almost did not post an update as these updates are now more for me than much use to anyone else. But I thought I would anyway as the anniversary of my purchase comes around again. Very much the same as last year with a lot of great fitness/ leisure rides, but also a regular cross country ride to shop at The Lidl in Guildford as my town does not have one. Once laden up with shopping I ride to Guildford Railway station and get the train back to my home town Godalming and ride back to my house from the Station. So as I said last year the bike is proving to be a tough, capable and very durable machine. It had good entry level components when I bought it which have stood up very well to a lot of use. The brakes and front forks are still functioning well. I think a nine speed transmission is a sweet spot choice for a crank drive you intend to ride a lot as it has a reasonable range of gears and is very economical when you need to replace parts. The biggest change I made to the bike was to fit a much better and much stronger hand built rear wheel. As I age I keep pondering the question of whether I will I wear out before the bike and noted the degenerative arthritis to both knees and also have meniscal injuries to both knees, and that the bike is looking a stronger bet than me! At least I now need an electric bike! Well so far so good and my knees are holding up fine. I even went skiing in January with my young son and had a great time. Just reds and blues but I had a fabulous time and will definitely go again if I get the chance. However this year unlike the previous ones I have had to spend a bit of money on the bike replacing my battery and charger.

Commuting on the Road with no big hills would suit a cadence sensor rear hub motored bike. I had both a rear hub Chinese derived bike and a Haibike hardtail Yamaha motored crank drive bike and for road riding the simple rear hub bike was superior. The crank drive mountain bike came in to its own off road or where you have a lot of steep hills. My basic commute was 10 miles one way, 20 miles round trip. Something like the Woosh Gran Camino would make a great commuting bike. Surprisingly the well known brand purpose build crank drive mountain bikes mostly have locked down electrical systems that make them very hard/expensive/impossible to fix outside their two year warranty period. You have to buy their batteries when you need a new one and they are a lot more expensive. https://wooshbikes.co.uk/?gran-camino

Sorry, I should have said, Spa is where I got it, and have bought quite a few things from them.

You do not need to spend £35 for a Schwalbe “puncture-proof” tire . When I bought a new one recently {04 10 2024} it cost me £13 plus delivery postage for a Land Cruiser Plus. Just shop around.

Surrey Snow, Very Rare Godalming to Haslemere yesterday, mostly off road, via Milford, Thursley and the Devils Punchbowl On...my canbus hardtail Yamaha Haibike now approaching (March 2025) ten years old and 20,000 miles plus. Though to be fair that has little to do with canbus, and this is my second motor, that has been refurbished once by Peter, and I managed to fix my battery/charger connections myself after they broke and I was told they could not be fixed and that the only option was buy a new battery. But that is a story I have already told earlier in this small thread. I bit the bullet recently and bought a new battery and charger. A fault arose with my old charger, but as I had changed the connectors my new charger cannot be attached. I am considering buying a generic charger and trying to put the non standard connecter from my broken charger on it, but if I get any of the four wires wrong it would brick the battery and I would have wasted my money on the generic charger as I would have cut the connecter off it to fit mine. Also my original battery is almost 10 years old, so maybe it is best to have a new one. The new one works as it should and is a bit larger than the old one. Both the new charger and new battery have the same connectors that broke on my original battery. I am being very careful when I connect/disconnect them. Challenging conditions in the punch bowl. At one point trying to go around a large puddle I came to an undignified halt and managed to ping my detachable handlebar mounted display into the puddle. Fortunately it floated and after I retrieved it, worked. The punch bowl is a National Trust area and they introduced the ponies. This view point is reached via a single track . The view had started to be obscured by growing vegetation, but this was being cut back while I was there yesterday and already enough to once more reveal the spectacular view. Three other mountain bikers turned up while I was there on a mix of very nice full suspension electric bikes. With no vegetation to lean my bike against I borrowed one their arms to hold my bike while I took the picture. they departed before me down a quite a tricky but short steep single track exit decent with roots and steps to overcome. Fun though on my old bike as I followed them down with no dropper post to assist me. I great ride, with a train ride back to Godalming, and a stop of at Sainsbury's on the way back home. Living the retirement dream.

Both the D Mail and Torygraph seem to have it in for Electric bikes, although also non electric bikes versus cars in general are written about, usually in a way to antagonise their readership in their hatred of free loading bike riders clogging up their precious roads.