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You will enjoy Ebikes and good luck with your purchase whatever they may be. My Townie now has almost been through it's 2nd summer and has 4200 km on it. My last ride in 2023 was Oct 22 and my first in 2024 was March 18. It's a fantastic bike and have had no issues except I had to replace the...

Update. This issue was caused by the charger and buying a new one solved it.

My Townie 8i has 2000 Kms on it so I'm looking to replace the chain. The specs say it has a KMC Z1EHX nickel plated 1/2 x 1/8 but mine is a KMC e10 Sport 1/2 x 11/128. The internal 8 gear hub is a Shimano Nexus 20T and the motor is a Bosch Active Line, chainring 170mm 38T. Bike was made in...

I bought a used Townie Go! 8i with 62 Kms on it in July and now (October) it has about 1700 Kms on it. There is no warranty left. Active line, Purion with a Powerpack 400 and 4 amp charger. A few weeks ago when charging it started doing incomplete charges. The 5 LEDs on the battery would remain...

For your information heat in electronics definitely shortens the life of components such as capacitors, resistors, solid state devices. I have repaired 1000s' of devices over the years and in many cases, heat was the culprit. So yes, A guy who is a certified electronics tech knows something...

Dmac, that's a beauty!

My 4 amp charger gets quite warm, even hot while charging so decided to try something to keep it cooler. Having an electronics background and knowing heat is a major cause of failures, as an experiment I attached 2 copper heatsinks from computer CPUs to the charger using heatsink compound and...

Hello from Regina. Bought a used Townie 8i in mid July, my 1st ever E-bike and love it! I'm 64 and my previous rider was a 40 year old Supercycle mountain bike. This is such an upgrade in so many ways. My rides are between 15 - 45Kms most every day since I got it. I used to avoid riding on windy...