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Yeah I had similar problems with those tyres. Think I went through three inner tubes replacing two tyres. Very stiff and tight, didnt help that the beading didnt seem to want to fit in the valley of the rim at least when the two edges were trying to get in. Cant say Im too impressed with them on the road either. Seem like they catch the wind more. Also occasionally feel twitchy, this at low speeds, higher speeds they seem to have more centrifugal force keeping them in line.

A couple of years ago I had a Kudos Typhoon 29er that introduced me to ebikes. Unfortunately that bike got stolen but it had done some good by proving my little commute was easier by bike than by car. At this point I decided to buy a Whyte Shorditch a non ebike. Its described as having a fast urban geometry, has carbon forks, hydraulic brakes, 10 gears and being sub 10kilo. I was quite happy cycling this and while I had sort of anticipated converting it to an ebike hence picking a bike with no front deraillure having to tamper withe the brakes put me off. Then along came the tsdz2 kit with torque sensing! So to the details... 1 Whyte Shorditch, 1 Whoosh tsdz2 kit, 1 pswpower 13Ah 48v battery, 2 crank pullers, 1 pack of rivnuts, 1 rivnutter plus rivnuts, some silicon sealer, 1 electric saw, hammer, chisel, half a finger nail and some annoyance later it was all done..... The bikes bottom bracket was the correct size, the motor slid in nicely, getting the gear cable between the motor and bracket needed abit of a mod to the guide but wasnt as difficult as I expected,the wiring all connected up easily the problem was getting the old bottom bracket off! In the end I stripped the threads of the crank and had to resort to using an electric saw to enable me to split the crank. It was going to be thrown away so in the end not a problem. The 2 sets of rivnuts was because I tried using a bolt to fit them as you see on youtube and as I only wanted two extra I thought I would save some money. Word to the wise get the proper tool! The two crank pullers was down to my ordering the first from somewhere deep in China. This led me to getting bored and thus uprating the front disc to 180mm, replacing the handles and getting a nice bouncy seat post before ending up using Amazons next day delivery and getting the 2nd crank puller. The bike now weighs in at 20 kilos including mudguards. I weigh in at 97 kilos am 54 and consider myself ok fitness wise. The commute I do is 1.5 miles each way. Yes thats right 1 point 5. Its to the train station and takes around 10 minutes ( note by car it was around 30minutes due to traffic). Not much in the way of hills eithers just a short bit on the way home. This was done just for a bit of fun:) The kit fitted easily, Whoosh were quite helpful answering my question about funny speed readings, seems it best not to get the sensor too close to the magnet. The display is a bit big really but does what it supposed to. The motor makes a little electric motor sound, changing gear does mean I have to let off the pressure a bit more than I used to. It can certainly pull me up the hill at cut off speeds and makes my journey a bit more fun at the end of a long day. Ive tried to compare it to the Typhoon. There is some difference in feeling as its not always obvious its doing something even though the lack of strain and speed says otherwise. I suspect this is down to having a torque sensor as according to the Runtastic app Im going similar or even higher speeds. I cannot say anything about the range as I tend to cruise at around 20mph so above the cut off, so far in 3 weeks Ive not knocked a bar off the battery If you want an easy to fit kit this is a really good one as long as you are good at crank pulling. Some pictures to follow

lol, not long nor that steep, but without power the typhoon seemed quite hard to move, big fat tyres and heavy bike I suppose. Seemed to need dropping to one of the very low gears to go up it while my ordinary bike feels like it flies up it in comparison.

Had my Kudos Typhoon taken from my locked shed a couple of months ago and have been using an ordinary hybrid type bike but have started missing the fun. One thing i like about my ordinary bike is its weight feels half that of the typhoon plus easy to pedal (typhoon took effort to get up the slope of my drive). So I was thinking of building my own. My journey is short less than 4miles a day on tarmac, I can pedal am 6ft and 15st and want something quick away from the lights which i can pedal above 15mph. Thinking either some front hub or bbs01 kit on a cheapish bike from some where like Halfords or buying a Whoosh Karoo. Dare I say.... suggestions, please? ps the typhoon was fun, a big bike, felt like it would eat other bikes.

Got my bike working. Appears to have been the controller (thing in the black box on the frame), opened it up and noticed one of the fets got very hot rapidly even without using the motor. Paul at Kudos supplied me a new one, I fitted it and everything now works so smoothly and responsively I keep having to be careful when I start pedalling! One thing I would recommend is a bike stand so you can twirl the pedals and watch the sensor lights etc makes life so much easier. I got one off amazon from a company called pure gadgets for £30 which can hold a Typhoon up at nearly 6ft makes working on the bike easy. Once again thanks to Paul for the help.

Over in Suffolk. Waiting to see if Paul over at Kudoscycles has any idea. The good thing at the moment is that the only time I really like to have the assist is going up the hill home and for that it seems to work.

Must be counting motor pulses as there's no other sensor. Just tried the bike with the battery fully charged and even power level 1 is no longer working properly. Battery now putting out 42v.

No the lcd works. The only thing that appears to happen is that the speed reading drops to zero. Disconnecting the wire that appears to feed that to the control box and thus to the lcd doesn't appear to have any effect.

Once I'm going over around 10 mph it seems ok and I go up the small hill outside my house ok and usually I'm using level 3

battery's one year old. would have been charged every other week given my usage so around 25 times. Seems to last the same as it always has, takes a similar time to charge and a simple voltmeter check shows it putting out around 40v

This weeks instalment... Paul@kudoscycles supplied me with a new sensor (thanks Paul) I've fitted it and...it's still not working. Tried suspending the bike and turning the pedals slowly and the motor kicks in so I now believe the sensor is ok. I've disconnected and reconnected the cables that go to the sensor, throttle, led and speed sensor. Still nothing. However there is another clue. In power level 1 everything appears to work but as soon as I up the level either from the control or throttle it cuts out, drop it back to 1 and it works again. Any more ideas? Bikes currently next to a radiator to try and make sure it's dry in case it's that given the rain this year.

The bike used to work correctly plus it looks to have 12 or more magnets already so not really a solution to the problem I'm having. One of the things I checked was the magnets as I had noticed one had gone rusty but as far as I can tell the rest are ok and the rusty one still seems to be magnetic after a clean.

Hmm, that would be a bit of a pain to replace if that was the case.Ive only had that error once. I will ask Kudos to see what they say. Using the bike today I've found that the thumb throttle does work in that it gives a boost when pedalling. The thing being that I need to pedal at a reasonable rate, slow pedalling and the assist cuts out intermittently.

Think I disconnected the display at one point but then it wasn't obvious how to turn the bike on as the switch goes to the display. I had wondered about the display but it seems pretty much a tightly sealed unit with no condensation visible. Surprising though this may seem given the weather it's actually been rare that the bikes got wet when out , it's also stored under cover at the train station and in a garage when at home.

ok a bit more experimentation aka poking around. Thumb throttle powers the bike at walking pace if you don't pedal. if you do then it surges cuts out, probably back to walking pace, surges etc. Disconnected brake sensor no change disconnect thumb throttle no change, disconnect what appears to be the speed sensor no change. disconnect the pedal sensor and the others work as expected. So.... things are pointing at the pedal sensor or the controller. There's no user servicible parts in the sensor - I checked and the cable looks ok so it looks like I will have to replace it to see if it's that as I've no idea how to test it.

I've tried undoing the box and checking the connections. They all appear to be well fastened together and fine. The fault only tends to show when starting off once going it seems to work. The thumb throttle seems to only give a very weak amount of assist, seems to pulse.

thinking about the speed not showing, that won't be down to the sensor as it shows the speed even when I'm pedalling so does this indicate it's actually the meter, the controller or the hub?

Just went around the block on the bike and the thing I notice is that the meter reads 0mph even when I'm moving, then it starts displaying a speed and the power kicks in. Once I'm moving reasonably quickly it's as if the power stays on as it should up to it's limit. Also when I suspend the bike in the air so it can free wheel and move the pedal I can feel the power kick in but not all the time. The signs all point to the sensor or cable. Any way to check them?

I've put the sensor even closer, no improvement. Tried the thumb throttle more and find that's putting hardly any power out, go on to grass and the bike comes to a stop.

Thumb throttle may be restricted not sure as I have hardly ever used but believe when I first got the bike I used it as a speed boost up hill instead of changing the setting on the meter so would have been expecting more than 6kmh. I feel I may have tried it a while ago and thought it wasn't working properly so may be an unrelated fault if it is a fault. The magnet disk appears ok did wonder about this as one of the magnets appears to have gone a bit rusty but appears to still be magnetic. The others are pretty clean. The gap is just over 20/1000s of an inch. Does it need to be closer? When I first got the bike the sensor came loose as the screw holding it in place was stripped a bit, think I super glued it to stop it moving....

hi, I've been using my Typhoon for the past year and have covered 660miles. Not a lot I hear you say but that's down to it being 1.5 miles to the train station across town and my using the bike to replace a car for that journey. All things were ok until a couple of weeks ago when It started intermittently not supplying power when I started pedalling. At one point the meter gave an error of 30 but then recovered and carried on working. Today I decided to check what I could and could see no loose leads and the battery is charged ok, however it sort of pulses when pedalling supplying power for a moment then not. The thumb throttle seems intermittent as well and very weak when it does work (must admit I don't usually use it but I'm sure it used to supply full power). Any one run into this before or have an idea what it is and more importantly how to fix it please?

Any recommendations as to what brake pads to buy for the Typhoons Shimano disc brakes? The ones that came with the bike are reasonable and I've locked the rear wheel up avoiding a car but it would have been nicer if they had slowed me down quicker just before I put some extra squeeze on. Could just be I need to improve my grip strength :)but any suggestions please This is for commuting so lots of sudden stops but not so many long slow downs. Given the rain good in the wet would be nice.

Just passed the first 100 miles on my Typhoon and have been trying to run the battery down to see what the range is like. On the LCD and the battery lights I'm at 50% however there's been quite a power drop off and when climbing even a very moderate incline the LCD cam drop to 0% which makes me drop the assist and put in more leg work. So my question is what do people do - charge it up every time they are near a socket or wait for it to drop? Obviously if you going 20 miles or so you are going to charge it before you go out but if you are doing only a few miles a day then charging it every time seems a bit much.

Could have been the sirocco 2 as I tried that as well just remember thinking the grip was small on one I tried. Would think a revo and twist grip throttle would be an awkward combo, so might just be poor memory on my part as my daughters bike has revos and I much prefer my finger operated ones.