November 30, 201015 yr Wiggle supplied the same pedal to me as a replacement for my original Technium kit. Look good and work well. £15 I think. Wiggle | MKS Comfort Lite Commuter Pedals Flat Pedals
November 30, 201015 yr Author Yep, Wiggle, SJS they all seem to have them. Flat both sides plus integrated reflector both sides...they are about double the cost of the supplied M-21...and should have been included in the price of the bike IMHO.
December 11, 201015 yr Tortec Reflectors Hi NRG, Have you installed Tortec Reflectors? How are they ? Can you provide a picture and your opinion?
January 5, 201115 yr I'm just about to order a set of pedals, but s thought has just occurred to me. The Panasonic system uses two left hand pedal crank arms. I would assume that a standard set of pedals is made up of one with a left hand thread and one with a right hand thread. Are these going to fit a Panasonic drive which has the two left hand crank arms? I don't want to end up buying two sets of pedals just to use the two left hand ones. Thanks Tom
January 5, 201115 yr Author Timely post as I've been out and about on the PC today. Two L/H cranks? Where did you get that from Tom? The MKS are standard pedals, left and right handed, fitted no problem and are a vast improvement on the originals... Here's the Pic I promised back in December :o http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l82/_NRG_/other/Bike/Kalkhoff/DSCF5509.jpg It was a really sunny start to the day but clouded over by 11:30 and started to get cold, quite windy too. The Tortec Mudguards where an easy fit although I really didn't need to fit the rear as my new RackTime DoubleIT pannier covers most of it! (would you believe I had to buy these from the USA even though they are made in Germany!) The front guard is a little longer than the standard one and usefully has the mud flap which extends it further, however, still not far enough to stop all the mud hitting the low slung motor assembly. http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l82/_NRG_/other/Bike/Kalkhoff/DSCF5511.jpg Still it stopped some of it and is much better than before. The Tortec uses two stays each side but is not as rigid as the originals so on occasions it rattles about a bit, also the rear guard comes with out a mud flap but I transferred the one from the original to it. I think I'll make up a 'sump guard' out of thin plastic for the motor to keep the rest of the mud off it. Edited January 5, 201115 yr by NRG
January 5, 201115 yr The term, two left hand cranks, is probably completely the wrong term to use, but it was all that I could think of at the time of posting. What I was trying to convey is this: On the limited number of bikes that I have worked on, the RH Crank usually attaches directly to the front chain wheel. The Panasonic drive seems to be slightly different in that the front chain wheel can turn independently of the pedal cranks. To achieve this, the right hand crank isn't attached to the chain wheel, it drives onto the bottom bracket spindle ( I feel another wrong term coming on). For this reason, the RH crank doesn't look like any that I have seen before. It looks like a duplicate left hand one. As I say my experience of bikes is limited, but with a bit if time and study I can usually fathom things out.
January 5, 201115 yr Author Ah, yes I see what you mean but thankfully it dosen't affect the pedals... For anybody else looking at this 2/3 the way down on this page from Flecc's help pages details the pedal shaft or bottom bracket that has the inbuilt freewheel: motorunit1
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