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Roundabouts give me the wiilies. Wife almost got struck our first day in Essex trying to cross an exit without looking to the right. Little **** car whizzed around a brick building our way about 60 kph. Figured out the next day Transport London had built an underpass to the underground station...

There are a lot of throttle only controllers on ebay that you can drive the bafang motor with. Most do not have the center pin for temperature. Just 8 pins. You will not find IMHO those sensor connectors and the scooter controllers do not come with a display. They require a "door switch" which...

You are very lucky anything works. Bionx went bankrupt 5 years ago due to too many problems. There is a computer in the battery that talks to the controller. If there is any problem in that pair, the bicycle is garbage. I had a controller work fine for 4 years then lose contact with the PAS...

No bicycle is safe for anybody. Riding on streets particularly. I've done it 67 years, only hit and run once. When I was 16 I was full of springs. I could ride my bike 7 miles out 7 miles back no problem. One has infinite energy at that age. Let him build up his strength. My excess wind...

I liked your list post 1. I do not know any particular model, but many of the brands you listed have decent reputations here. Two features important to me, step through frame, and 26" or bigger wheels. I lost the ability to lift the leg over the seat & rack in my mid sixties. I'm as strong...

GPS is for dodderheads that can't read a map and never ride in the rain. My previous cellphone shorted in the rain, inside a plastic bag. My motor display shorted in the rain 5 years ago. I ride without. I measure my grades with a 8" level, a 6" ruler. The flat part of the level is 6" long...

Even if you found that display, software updates in the time since you bought the bike would probably make it incompatible with the old controller. Controllers and displays have to be bought at the same time, from the same source. Just finding the same connectors for the throttle, brake...

I use nothing but the throttle. Pas level 1 was too fast to be safe on some routes. I have lost 55 lb since 2008. When the wind is down and I am on grades <5 % i use no power at all. Wind >12 mph in my face, or on the 50th to 77 th hill on my 28 mile commute, on goes the power. A windy ride...

Sorry about the cow. Fortunately all the cows & deer I have encountered on the streets and highways were hit and killed before I got there. I'm glad my parents bought me as much milk as I would drink. 15 or 20 falls, only one broken bone. 2017, Going 25 mph on a MTB, gravel made the front...

Welcome to the site. Beautiful scene.

I have never used a torque wrench on a bicycle. 67 years and still riding. I have never stripped a bicycle axle thread. Having wheel nuts at the proper torque does not mean they are not going to come loose. The secret to wheel nuts not coming loose, is use two and counter-tighten them. If...

It took me a year and a half to figure out how to replace the wire harness to a Cutler Mac 12t. I built a puller to yank on the ring while the screw pressed on the shaft. No help. No useful videos on youtube, just something about it needs a torque arm to keep the shaft from spinning out of the...

Update, my hips were still causing serious pain if I rode more than 3 hours. My commute to summer camp is 3.7 hours. I was using an evo cruiser 218x260 saddle with 1 cm padding. I bought a pair of Bellwether 02 mens cycling shorts, which turned out to have a 1 cm plastic pad built into them...

I get to 30 mph quite often DOWN the 15% hills, so I feel no need for speed. I broke my jaw at 25 mph on gravel, so I only go that fast on perfect pavement on a dry day. Average about 8 mph over 30 miles & 77 hills, although at the end of the summer I can push it to 9.

When the white tires went flat on my step through bodaboda, I replaced them with black. The 19"x19"x10" panniers are too big for a woman. I use pool noodles for hand grips, the bright green ones. As I rode through a school yard, a 3rd grader on the playground shouted "Nice bike". The only...

Two controllers, two PAS pickups, two motors. Or one throttle perhaps instead of the 2nd PAS pickup. One battery if you so choose. I crimp on dorman ring or bullet connectors. Not the ****ese **** terminals. Dorman is from Taiwan. Or 3M, Panduit, Ideal, T&B or TE Connectivity real crimp...

Socket or rail? For rails I was fairly happy with $32 Evo Cruiser 260x210 mm, but $60 Selle Royale Explora is a little better. Both require a Cloud-9 11x8 gel pad to ride past 3.7 hours in comfort. The fat melted off my hips in my mid sixties. But not off my belly, of course. My seat post is...

A lieutenant in the basic ordnance officer's course with me told me the best home defense weapon is a Remington 870 shotgun. Load 1 birdshot to warn, 2 buckshot for the legs & balls, and then slugs for the torso. Slugs fall down after 100 yards. Reason not the semiauto Remington 1100, the...

I donated my knees to the US Army. I can walk about 1.5 mph, with moderate pain. I avoided a mid-drive for this reason, and only have a front geared hub drive. Rain takes out the throttle or controller, or motor clutch wears out, I just pedal home in twice the time. I ride places where cell...

One locks the suspension to carry groceries or camping gear. I replaced my car with an electric bicycle.