richard beadle

Glad you feel like working in a bike shop qualifies you to offer VAT advice, as an expert VAT advisor you would have heard of small enterprise exemptions. Your making a lot of assumptions about how other businesses are operated, like I have already said your time would be better employed keeping your own affairs in order.

Then you better report me hadn't you, but of course you realise that the vat has been paid on point of entry to the eu, you have I assume heard of fulfillment warehouses. As I said before if a certain uk business who's representative likes to talk himself up on this forum had been more interested in customer enquires than having an argument on said forum then we wouldn't be having this discussion.

You would also know that it is a criminal offence for anyone that knows of a Vat fraud not to report it, so crack on son any excuse not to answer the phone

Well it was shipped from Germany, so there is no reason to falsely declare anything more to the point who exactly is going to force them to close there business? Chinese companies regularly do this as a matter of course because it is so often requested by their foreign customers, so I'm not sure what axe you have to grind. It's just a shame the UK company I wanted to deal with couldn't be bothered to respond to emails or phone calls, a real shame because over 2 grand of my hard earned went abroad. Perhaps if they spent less time trying to discredit other companies and more time on customer enquires, they wouldn't have to worry so much about foreign companies poaching their business. As a consumer you have to ask yourself why would i pay a premium price to be ignored, I may as well pay less for the same pathetic service no ?

1. Possibly the lekkie 46t has about 20mm offset but you can always add a spacer. 2. Not required 3. 46t would be fine for road use I like my 36t for off road stuff 4. Cadence sensor Starts working when you turn the pedals 5. Pass 6. Other people use them I've never bothered. 7. Don't get what you mean, as for hydraulics why not get the hydraulic set off em3ev extra £74 well worth it if your spending that sort of money, they are in the options list. 8. I used andersons and good quality shrink tube on mine I believe if you contact em3ev they will do it for you but you will probably still want to shorten the cables. 9. bafang midrive installation tool absolutely essential in my opinion, otherwise you'll be squeaking after a few 100 miles. 10. You will almost certainly have to re-route your rear derailleur cable from going under the bottom bracket, get some jagwire gear cable housing and run it the full length from shifter to derailleur. 11. Buy plenty of long cable ties and one of those down tube mud guards is a great place to hide wiring behind

Well good luck addressing those 3 issues. Just to add I have covered over 5000 miles on my bbs02b and 4000 on the tongseng both without issues although the tongseng is noticeably more noisey even after re-greasing. I would also advise you get the after market socket/installation tool if you go for any of the bafangs it's a lot easier to get the ring on nice and tight, otherwise you will be constantly tightening it every 200 to 300 miles when it starts squeaking

Also i would suggest that with the bbshd and its extra weight you might want to consider a full suspension bike, I have two mid drive bikes, one hardtail frome ripley 1 bought brand new, with a tongsheng 500w and a second-hand giant yukon 2 full suspension bouggt for £180 with a 750w bbs02, suffice to say I never us the hardtail now

Never slipped a chain with my Lekkie or the standard chain wheel on my bbs02

You may struggle to get a mid drive motor in your carbon frame, some carbon frames have beefed up bb so you may not have the clearance. I have both the tongsheng 500w and bbs02b750w I'd choose the bbs02 over the tongseng any day, purely on build quality, operating noise and the colour display. I have the bbs02b fitted to a full sus giant yukon 2 and it will go up anything in fact I find it overkill at 750w but it is a lot of fun. I use it for both offroading and my daily commute which is between 50 and 60 miles depending which site I'm working on. With a 48v 11.5ah from eclipse, I've managed 60 miles on one charge, when I forgot to take my charger with me doh, obviously i had to manage my power usage quite carefully. With 44t chain ring I can easily get up to and just over 30mph, I now have a 36t lekkie bling ring on it which has reduced top speed but made the whole package easier to ride without power, if I fancy a bit of exercise. I considered the bbshd long and hard but im glad i didnt spend the extra money now, its quite a chunk of extra weight to be carrying around with more power than you will ever need but if its pure fun factor then i can see the appeal but for me it's came down to pricing and the fact that psw power were shipping from an eu warehouse so no issues with vat/duty although I didn't have any issues with my tongsheng which came direct from China. At the time the price was £320 with the 850c display and free delivery not sure what it is now, but bbshd is going to cost you roughly £530 from em3ev plus the danger of getting nailed for vat. That is in no way a slight at em3ev they were so very helpful to me while I was researching my builds, they really seem like a top company, unlike a southern English firm that shall remain nameless, I tried to deal with and were anything but helpful, being told that someone your trying to spend a chunk of cash with "doesn't do phones" makes one wonder what the after sales is like and it would seem the chap in question can't even do emails either. So my advice would be get a bbs02b you could get two bbs02 for the same price as one hd if you get slapped with vat, then you could convert both bikes or put a hub motor on the road bike.

Cheers Dave it's a nine pin connector, 3 pins slightly longer and thicker which I assume are the phase pins. I'll get on with orderering the sine wave controller. Many thanks

Ok so I stopped being lazy and did some further digging, from what i understand you are referring to a hall sensor and if my motor has one it should have 7/8 pins in the moulded connector coming from the motor, is this correct Dave?

Ok Dave how do I check this I've reached the limit of my knowledge. Do you mean the pas sensor ? It's a bafang motor, there is a serial number on it but I can't see any model number.

Like I said before though, top speed isn't a priority it's main increased range and hopefully a bit more grunt up hill, she wants.

13t on top gear 32t bottom 8 speed by-dnp slick shift. Dunno about that level 5 Dave, I think that extra 250w my mrs experenced on my bike has driven her power crazy. Although I dare say that will soon end in the first week when she falls off and either never rides it again or gets me to put it back how it was lol

Yeah probably would have helped if I had put it in the original description,sorry about that. What are your thoughts on the controller I picked Dave? Many thanks Rich