Kilrymont

I can underline the above note re Halfords. Their £400 discount off a Felix+ tempted my to buy there rather than from a Raleigh agent half the distance away, Big, big mistake. Halfords don't answer the phone, almost without fail. On the odd occasion they do, despite using the bike service number you get ANYONE answering, on one occasion the store manager. Promises to call back are never, ever kept. My bike has had recurring brake problems and yesterday its chain snapped under the mildest of loads. Fortunately, this happened only a minute or two after leaving the house, and on the level. But it might have stranded me many miles from home. In thousands of biking miles over the decades I've never once had a chain break on me. Till now. I would strenuously advise anyone reading this to consider very, very carefully indeed before buying an ebike from Halfords. And if you're keen on a Motus type bike, then despite pretty much ANY price difference, buy via a Raleigh agent who is a proper bike shop. That way you might find yourself actually getting the assistance you need when something goes awry.

Thanks for the replies chaps.. but nobody has answered my question... Re whether one brake system is easily replaced with another...IE are the mounting points in the bike generic or brand-specific? Which was what I was after., not how to to bed-in new brakes. (Been on the roads now for 52 years, no newbie me.) But with bike disc systems, although the principle is just a toy-town version of motorcycle brakes, the conventions might well differ. (I'm a cyclist, ex-motorcyclist, and motorist all rolled into one) So can I decide at some point to bin "wot I got" and stick on something better without mismatches when fitting components?

Hi all, The above bike is new. With, obviously, new brakes. Which, being new, aren't bedded-in. However. The shorty trials so far tried out suggest that the Tektro hydraulic brakes it has are rather underwhelming in their stopping power, even allowing for their newness. Which has led me to a fundamental question to this forum's wise old heads. It's this. Are alternative brake systems of discs, callipers, levers, all equally fittable to bikes of this model? The two points of possible mismatch might seem to be the attachment of disc to hub and calliper to fork slider/leg. And similar at the rear wheel. I'm hoping these are industry-standard so that system-shifts are easy. Can anyone confirm that this is so? Also hoping that the bed-in shows a decent improvement in road behaviour. (I'm no lightweight so these brakes will have a higher duty cycle than most.) That's it, glad finally to have taken the plunge and splashed on a crank drive machine. K.