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Hi, I did a couple of experiments. I wondered if I could tell you? I tried riding my bike with a 1.5L bottle of mineral water in the frame in place of the battery. That was to see what it would be like with the 1.5kg range extender battery instead of the 3.6kg 625wh battery. I do think it is...

Thanks, yes, I do like it very much. I think it will be a lot of fun once I really get up and running on it. The hubs are very interesting aren't they? My next challenge is that it is has started making a high pitched whistling noise every half turn of the wheel. I suppose that is to do with...

It's quite the thing isn't it?

This is my bike with the new bloom handlebars. It also has 3D printed parts on the front and rear lights to put a filter on to make them a little bit less bright on the eyes of road users. The front one has a yellow filter on just now and the back one doesn't yet have a filter, but I plan to...

Thank you very much for your help and encouragement. I really appreciate it and especially your tip about going up a gear, which has made everything gradually become clear and easy. tbh I don't like to cycle dizzy. If it happens, I just stop and go home. That's why I've been going up and down...

Thanks, yes, it's really not possible to ride like that. I know what to do though, because I had the same problem with computer mouse use and youtube in the past. It's just a question of learning how to predict how the bike will react when I use the controls in certain ways. Once the bike reacts...

It's only been about ten minutes so far because I was getting really dizzy riding. Things are getting better now and I am going further afield. The bike really feels much better when I am going slightly uphill or against a head wind. It seems to need something to push again. When it's on the...

Thanks, I just looked up and it seems as though my bike could run on the range extender alone. It would be 250wh and would weigh 1.5kg versus my current battery which is 625wh and weighs just short of 4kg. I'm quite temped, I have to admit. At the moment even getting the bike set up is quite a...

Hi, Thanks I hadn't thought about the range extender battery. I will have a think about that. They seem to be about £400 which is a whole truckload of money on top of the £3000 I already spent on the bike. I think you would be surprised about how much difference it makes not having the...

This is the bike: https://www.gazellebikes.com/en-gb/ebikes/ultimate-c5-hmb I think the battery is the 625wh powertube on this page: https://www.bosch-ebike.com/en/products/batteries#c328784

I wondered if I could ask another question about fine tuning the ride on my bike? I just wondered if it is possible to buy a much lighter battery with a lower capacity that would also fit my bike? I'm wondering because the 625wh battery makes the bike massively heavy, but I am only using about...

Thank you very much, yes that does make sense. It's very clear to me when the cadence is right. I really don't like to pedal too fast for my own comfortable rate, and when the gears and motor mode are set up so I am having to shove hard on the pedals and pedal slowly than that doesn't feel good...

Thanks, that's good to know. Thank you for your encourgement.

Thanks for commenting. Do you think there is something that I ought to be doing to fix it? I did also test drive two blooms and a ridgeback before I bought it and they were pretty much the same. I tried turning the torque right down and it made no difference at all. Turning acceleration to -5...

Hi, I wondered if I could just come and report back? I've been out every day practising on my bike and I think I am getting it now. There are several interacting things that I've needed to work out and I think I am getting it. The first is that the mechanical parts of the bike are...

@BlackHand I would be really interested to know what you think about turning acceleration down to -5 and doing the same thing and comparing it to tour and Sport also with acceleration turned down to -5. I have to use the actual gears more, but I'm okay with that. I don't completely follow the...

LOL. Thank you for being so keen to help. I will report back in a week or so. Thank you very much.

It's okay, I think I have a plan for now. I'll come back in a week or so to report on progress. Thanks!

Thanks, yes I have actually done all that. It took me a really long time to get used to the bike even without the battery. The belt drive is so quiet and smooth and the bike is so heavy that it feels radically different even without any assist at all. I got to the point in this last week where I...

Thank you that's really helpful. I did wonder about an ebike with derailleur gears. I think I ended up with hub gears because I like the very upright sitting position of the Gazelles, and they are all hub gears. I didn't know that that was what Eco+ did. I will try it. Thanks for that. Do...