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Okay, I should probably do a small (text) update on some additional changes to the bike. Here we go: Completely stopped using the Wipperman Connex 7E8 chains that I previously talked about. They are... not good. Fail rather quickly, and they also have an issue with their locking mechanism...

Everyone with a Delite had (or should!) remount their Supernova from the fork crown up onto the bike computer, so I'm glad R&M fixed this. As far as dual-powertube, it is of course welcome but I'd expect them to have done it when they did it for Supercharger... why now, why such a huge delay...

Okay, imagine a group of Eurocrats sitting somewhere in the main EC building in Brussels. They're off on one of their myriad wine breaks, enjoying being paid upwards of €5k/month for basically less than 1hr/day of work. In between idle conversation, one of the Eurocrats casually brings up these...

OK I just ordered the programming cable, should be useful for both my friend and my own boxed Ultra, too. Does anyone know of any location on the web where one can find a 'good' set of settings for Ultra? I want it to act the same as a Yamaha, ideally.

This whole derestriction thing is a fiasco... I bought my two CX-equipped bikes precisely because I knew that I could derestrict them instead of paying €500 extra for an identical Speed motor with different firmware. Of course, then I tried the Yamaha motor. So there's that :)

Yes, that thing.

Yes, exactly this. Fwiw it's not my bike, my friend bought it. I have Haibike and R&M bikes :) but he wanted to save some money. Now he's disappointed and I'm not sure I liked this either.

I have tried this on a Frey hardtail fatbike. Also, I have an Ultra just lying around separately, no idea what to do with it. I'm aware of the above video, annoyingly enough the motor doesn't even come with this cable when you buy it as a kit. My main issue is with the smoothness of the travel...

After years of Bosch/Yamaha, I tried out a bike with Bafang Ultra and... I'm not impressed. Both torque sensor and gas lever thumb throttle feel... wrong. Torque sensor has lots of lag, and then when you pedal, the power build-up is not gradual like Yamaha, it's abrupt and feels uneven when you...

Can anyone tell me the approximate range that you get from a bike equipped with a 1kW Ultra motor and a 1kWh battery (48V 21h)?

It's a nice church. It gets very crowded oftentimes because it's one of the principal landmarks. The palaces and parks outside the city are also very pretty. Culturally, there's lots to see here.

The mudguard is the BBB FatFender. I don't notice any major change in range. Compared to my weight, the extra weight of the panniers is marginal. I haven't weighed the bike. I did put blinkers on the sides at some point. In terms of cleaning, I only clean the bike occasionally. Just some damp...

Is Harmony an OEM-only solution or can I retrofit it to an existing Bosch bike?

There was a post here about a sell-off of NuVinci on B-D so I wanted to ask someone who knows some questions about Harmony, specifically, because it seems like an interesting concept but I haven't ridden it, have never met anyone who used it, and even on YouTube information about Harmony is...

That's not... entirely true. The truth is you'll be crawling mountains because, while you'll certainly get up there, you won't be flying up a 30° hill at 25kph.

I would like to offer a point which is contrary to what the canon is here on cycling forums. My approach is roughly this: not all laws are legitimate, and some laws, even though you're supposed to obey them are clearly illegitimate. When some unelected EU bureaucrats take ebike laws from Japan...

I think what you want to do is re-cell the existing battery. You will be unable to get a self-made power pack to work because Bosch requires the data line to provide the right info, and we sadly do not know what that data should be.

Congratulations on the purchase! In my mind, the Delite is a near-perfect bike. The only that, in my mind, would make it perfect is fatbike wheels. That and a Yamaha motor instead of Bosch, hehe.

Well, people on Pedelecforum (German) and Endless Sphere have been reverse-engineering the drives with varying successes. Yamaha got reverse-engineered which is why we now have third-party batteries and various battery hacks. There are two issues with commercial mid-drives I see: one is they...

No, of course not. Bike makers aren't stupid, they've locked in consumers so they cannot use 3rd-party batteries. Will work for Yamaha, in my case, because I have magic widgets to make this possible.