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This is a great photo of a battery with the cover removed Gary and the first I’ve ever seen of the internals. I'd like to remove this cover to allow the cells in my batteries to be tested, but it looks very difficult to remove the little screw cover flaps, on the top of the battery, without...

Those stats are interesting thanks R120, particularly with regard to the E8000 and very encouraging. I'd love to be able to get enough information on our bikes to convince me that battery fall off is the cause of our problems, I'd then find the decission to fit the new battery a much easier one...

Hi TG1971, sorry but like Dean, it looks like I missed replying to your post. Thanks for your comments. It looks like your problems are much worse than mine and it's certainly interesting that, like me, to have two, identical bikes, doing identical rides, to compare the performance of. I've...

That's a fair point thanks R120. I've noticed that software upgrades on our bikes seems to coincide with reduced battery performance/range. Of course, recent weather has been very cold and I know that this does effect/reduce battery life. Our latest rides have been very poor, range wise. After...

Hi Dean, please forgive, as I appear not to have replied to your very useful post, back in November. I'm sorry, but I've had a lot going on over the past few weeks and this got missed off my list. I'm still riding and generally logging my rides/battery/motor performance, but I've not heard...

I'll enjoy reading about how it fits and also how it performs, good luck.

Thanks Josh, all interesting stuff. I'll check out the tyre recs and read a few reviews. It's always a bit of a gamble trying to choose a tyre to fit every occasion and will always end up as a compromise.

Thanks R120. We tend/can to use Eco most of the time and think that it makes us work harder - better exercise. Yes, I've been reading up on the new batteries earlier. They look pretty exciting. I did read one review suggesting that they wouldn't fit my bike, but with a new mount I can't see why...

Update - we're still experiencing difficulties with our bikes range and this is slowly worsening. Whilst out on a recent sightseeing 41 mile day ride whilst staying in the Cotswolds, mainly on quiet country lanes, my bike lost all battery at 38 miles and my wife's bike got back to our caravan...

Well, I've not heard anything back from Wiggle yet, but I have had this back from Vitus yesterday - "Hi Paul, Thanks for coming back to us on this and attaching the report. We have been over this quite closely to see if we can get to the bottom of the battery life issue you have encountered...

I've had this reply from Shimano (Madison?) today - Hi Paul, We have actually fed our findings back to CRC on this matter already so I gather you are in communication with them? In any case, one possible option is difference in eco/trail settings: Based on the Unit Log Acquisition report we...

Hi again, yes, I did buy some hybrid tyres as we'd run similar ones on our earlier Rocky Mountain and Whyte MTB's when touring, but decided to stick with the original tyres. These give us a nicer ride and do run well on the road, we also converted them to tubeless. Best of all and because we...

Hi Frank, the spare battery(s) may be something for the future and I take your point about the time we're spending trying to log exactly what's going on. This won't last forever, but I felt it important to be accurate. I have swopped batteries with my wife once, but that was when my bike was...

Hi Pivot, Jackie always uses Eco, we tend to do most things together and when we cycle together we match each others pace. I may sometimes go down an offroad hilly section quicker, but she's quicker than me on the road, 40.1mph last week - no assistance! :ROFLMAO:

The report I had from the LBS on my wife's bike was titled "E-Bike Diagnosis Report, E-tube Project Version 3.4.5." and I don't know whether this is the genuine Shimano diagnostic testing equipment. It was a 4-page affair, reporting on Battery, Power Switch, Drive Unit, Indicator, Rear...

Hi Gary and thanks for your comment. You are the first person that has mentioned noticing this to me, my LBS didn't seem to appreciate this and they're a service centre for Shimano. I can well imagine that a drop off in performance would occur, particularly with the battery, but these bikes ate...

Update - had a lovely, easy ride around the fabulous east Shropshire countryside yesterday on nice country lanes, exactly the type of riding that we do when taking an extended trip. Unfortunately, the total mileage we got from the fully charged battery was 45 miles, well down on what we used to...

They're all good, logical points Frank and you are right about the fatigue. We may be putting less effort into the peddling and certainly, past 15mph, I certainly do seem to notice that it's much harder than I remember 12 months ago - also I am older! However, we haven't toured this year, due to...

Hi Steve, the bikes are both stock 2019 Vitus E-Sommet, no mods other than MTB mudguards. Before I bought them I contacted Wiggle, CRC and Vitus to check out various things about them. The range was an important consideration and Shimano seemed to star here. Vitus were happy with the multi use I...

Thanks Mark. We do tend to ride in Eco all of the time, to get as big a range as possible and also to make us work a bit harder. We've toured quite a lot on full susp MTB's, including around Holland and I've been from Telford to the Med on my old Whyte 46. We've only managed one decent ride last...