Paul1962

Well, I heard from others about oil leaks and stuff like that which made me think: Leave your fingers off that. You live since you ride a bicycle which is in my case since 57 years with cable brakes and the ones you do have now are by far better than what you are used to so leave it as it is. Besides this I didn't want to fix hydraulic tubes where there's notthing on the frame designed to keep them in position. Furthermore you would need new brake handles and so on etc. etc. But your comment made me searching on the Internet for it and I found mechanic/hydraulic ones like THIS. Next time I have a brake incidence I might even think about those. Would you think they bring me any benefit? At least they are really maintenance-free from what I could see.

You might be right, but my thoughts were: If they have the technical skill what I would expect from a technical support they would have pointed me towards adjustment. But as they proofed to have no clue of this I thought they haven't deserved it any better. My apologies for being like that.

I am happy with the mechanic brakes. The less complicated the easier to maintain

The 2nd Eleglide does now have 350 km driven. So far I am still happy with it, but lat week I had the following incidence: All of a sudden my rear brake was out of order. It moved t brake pad towards the disc, even bended the disch slightly towards the inner brake pad and then it released. So I was, let's say more than dissapointed, even slightly angry. So I drove back home with just one brake, took a video of it and wrote a complaint to the Geekbuying support. Besides this I was planning to buy spares brake pads since monthes but whenever I looked onto the Eleglide spares website I could only press the "Notify me when available button". So I did even contact them to ask for the brake manufacturer or for a drawing of the brake pads so I can get them anywhere else if they aren't able to supply it. But the only answer I got was:Press the "Notify me when available" button. So I wasn't just complaining about my problem but also about spares availability. After a while my anger was gone so I went back to the garage to make myself familiar with the way a mechanical bicycle disc brake works. Might sound funny to the or the other, but I am old fashioned and until I bought that bike V-Brakes were to me state of the art. So I found out that pads were (of course) thinner than new and I just needed to adjust the inner non movable piston by one turn of an allen key and then everything was working perfectly. It was that easy I could have even done it with the tools I had on board. I just didn't know. But I left the support ticket open and the reply was:"Your brake makes a strange sound (this was when it released). Can we send you a new caliper or do you need brake pads as well?" Of course I said they should send both and they promised to do so. So at the end of the day my bike is back in good working condition and I am geeting a new caliper and a new set of brake bads free of charge. Fantastic . My friends do already make jokes like: When this company goes bankrupt it's your fault!

Must have been a typo. It is supposed to have 14.5 Ah

Just saw they are available again as I saw HERE. And the mid-motor versions as well. Cost is 1249€. To be honest: The price situation is slowly relaxing and before I am going to buy one for 1249€ noone is going to fix I am going to get a 2022 old stock non-mover for 300 € more or build my own.

It appears Eleglide Ebikes aren't available in the EU any longer. I was looking on www.geekbuying.com and searching for eleglide brought no result at all. Searching for Ebikes brought some results, but once I sat the filter to "Only from EU warehouse" this ended up in showing only accessories, no complete bikes. Opening a Service Chat brought the result that they don't sell to Europe any longer as a matter of high taxes. Following Chat protocol: [02/07/2024 21:25:37] Service01: hi [02/07/2024 21:25:47] Reinhard Paul: As I see you aren't offering any Eleglide ebikes any longer. Besides this you have no ebikes at all from a EU warehouse. Is this just temporary or did you stop selling Eleglide? [02/07/2024 21:26:06] Service01: sorry we are unable to ship to europe now [02/07/2024 21:26:45] Reinhard Paul: Okay, question answered. Would you think that is only temporary or have you stopped sales to EU on your own? [02/07/2024 21:28:10] Service01: because high tax [02/07/2024 21:29:00] Reinhard Paul: Okay. So I can be lucky that I bought my bike already back in October [02/07/2024 21:29:47] Service01: sorry about that [02/07/2024 21:30:35] Reinhard Paul: Thanks for your suport [02/07/2024 21:30:48] Service01: you're welcome Looking up the Elglide website I found out that none of their bikes was deliverable to the EU and only 2 Models (m1Plus, 10 left; and T1StepThru , 2 in stock) were still available in the UK. So whomever is thinking about getting one of their bikes you better do it now.

That is always a question of how well it is looked after. Even a bicycle in the higher price regions will be scrap at a certain stage if you don't look after it and maintain it here and there. On the otherend, if you buy cheap stuff but you are taking care of it it can last an eternity. Besides this the question is always: What do you want to do with this vehicle? Crossing the alps? Then an electric bicycle in the 600ish region is the wrong choice.

I love diversity so my range of motorized two-wheelers as of today is as follows: ELEGLIDE M1 Plus 29", 250 W (1/3 HP), built 2023 BMW R1150 GS, 85 HP, built 2001 Honda CM 185 Parallel twin, 17 HP, built 1980 MZ ES 250/2 single cylinder 2-stroke 19 HP, built 1972 JAWA 175 cc, 9 HP, built 1960 What would potentially fill the gaps would be a 350CC Royal Enfield and a 650CC English parallel twin, either Triumph or Royal Enfield But I'd doubt my wife would fancy this and I miss space.

No, mine wasn’t smoking. Only downside of it was that due to the engines position on a hot summer day my arse was getting f….ng hot . Other than this I really enjoyed it. Built in 1983 I bought it 2014 for 1160€ and sold it 2022 for 1000€. Only spares besides consumables was a used oil/water pump. So indestructable and a loss of 20€ per year was 1st class. The only reason I sold it was that I got an 1150 GS offered for a good price so I said: You are now that old. If you don’t buy a REAL BMWW (real = boxer engine) now, you will never ever get one

That is an argument I heard quite often on motorcycles I bought as a bargain with "ugly" colours like purple. My reply was then always: "Might be, but I don't care. I don't see it as long as I sit on it. It is a motorcycle whichs purpose is to ride, not to be sent onto catwalks!"

As you can see it looks as if Eleglide is shortly going to offer a mid-drive Pedelec as well. Still not visible on their website neither on geekbuying.com . Let's wait wich price it will be offered for.

How powerful?? Well, how should I answer this? Powerful enough for me who is a.) 62 years old and b.) 110 kgs light and c.) kind of limited as I was having a bypass operation in my left leg 11 mths ago and I am still wearing surgical stockings. That is all I can tell about "How powerful is it?" As I wrote the first one failed with m as well but that was as I could learn in the meantime not the bicycles fault, but my personal hubmotor handlicng fault as I was using it in a way where an overheating issue was more or less forseeable. But the dealer (geekbuying.com) was quite generous in reimburisng me completely and even paying the transport Coming to your question about motors size: I would judge it as quite small and that's what the spares section of the eleglide webite says: By the way: I was looking at them also already since quite a while as I judged the price-value ratio as extremely good but as I am 193 cm ( 6ft 4") I could only convince my other half ( the one inside myself, not my wife )since I saw the 29" version which works but I shouldnt be much taller than I am.

Would 750 Watt be legal in th UK? Not in the EU

If it’s self-built I‘d agree, but with a finished off-the-shelf Pedelec in the 600ish Region I would not want to risk it