Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 6:32 am
I didn't fit the brake levers, pedal sensor thingy or the supplied rack.
It works fine using the thumb throttle without brake levers/pedal sensor.
The rack did not fit my bike and I had one fitted anyway so a few bungee's and I lashed battery to my own rack.
One or two dodgy connector crimps, I re-crimped and soldered two as the bullet connectors pulled straight off when I gave them a gentle test tug. I did tell the supplier about this and he acknowledged he had rushed that a bit.
With the level of knowledge on here these minor problems are no problems and it seems to work well and I'm bloody heavy. I would say it's a damn sight quieter than the Henizmann thing I had a few years ago and seems to have got a bit quieter after the first few miles. Cogs getting worn in. But it's not silent.
It now comes with a sort of quite wide big tyre and inner tube already fitted to the supplied wheel, but my bike has very narrow tyres so I swapped the front tyre/tube from my original wheel onto it.
I have a spare tyre, tube, rack, pedal sensor and brake levers if anyone wants them for price of postage.
Peter
PS Just for QDOS the Insight is now doing 157mpg
Edit just done another 12 mile trip, when chugging along at about 16mph pedaling as well as using motor, the motor is very lightly loaded and is quite quiet
It works fine using the thumb throttle without brake levers/pedal sensor.
The rack did not fit my bike and I had one fitted anyway so a few bungee's and I lashed battery to my own rack.
One or two dodgy connector crimps, I re-crimped and soldered two as the bullet connectors pulled straight off when I gave them a gentle test tug. I did tell the supplier about this and he acknowledged he had rushed that a bit.
With the level of knowledge on here these minor problems are no problems and it seems to work well and I'm bloody heavy. I would say it's a damn sight quieter than the Henizmann thing I had a few years ago and seems to have got a bit quieter after the first few miles. Cogs getting worn in. But it's not silent.
It now comes with a sort of quite wide big tyre and inner tube already fitted to the supplied wheel, but my bike has very narrow tyres so I swapped the front tyre/tube from my original wheel onto it.
I have a spare tyre, tube, rack, pedal sensor and brake levers if anyone wants them for price of postage.
Peter
PS Just for QDOS the Insight is now doing 157mpg
Edit just done another 12 mile trip, when chugging along at about 16mph pedaling as well as using motor, the motor is very lightly loaded and is quite quiet