ELECYCLES Front Wheel Electric Bike Conversion Kit EEKit 36V250W with Only Two Cables

Item arrival experience on Amazon.co.uk: After ordering this ebike conversion kit it took 13 days for the battery to arrive, then a further 12 days for the motorised wheel and its battery charger to arrive. In total, expect a wait of 25 days or more for everything to be delivered.The battery on arrival came with a set of keys which activate a locking bolt underneath the base of this bottle-shaped battery; it locks into the battery/bottle mount which will arrive with the ebike wheel. This makes it easy to remove the battery or lock in place on your bike which is nice. It also came with a USB charging cable for the included wireless and rechargeable ebike computer/monitor. It does light up, but the LCD can be a little difficult to read unless you’re at a certain angle. What’s rather intriguing, is that the motor controller (in the battery base) supposedly measures your movement and stops the motor from spinning when you decide to use your brakes to slow down? Also, the battery lacks any light indicators to show its currently working, the only indicator is that is will give a small beep on activation and the actual on button being pressed inwards. Make sure it’s off before you do any maintenance as you could accidentally push the thumb throttle and have your bike fly away from you like it did with me... The motor isn’t the most silent but overall, I like as it reminds me of that classic motorcycle sound albeit much quieter.As for the motor, on arrival it came with the battery charger but it was the US plug not UK plug standard so I recommend you get a travel plug adapter for this ahead of time. Thankfully I had a spare one. The actual charging and USB powerbank port is underneath the top lid of your bottle-shape ebike battery. The red light on your battery charger will go green once fully charged. The instruction manual although it featured illustrations was pretty pointless as it lacked any English text. (Hint* make a new one with English, please!) The wheel came with a pretty decent brake disk on a double-walled 26’’ bike rim. Although, if you’re planning on removing it like I did for my bicycle with v-brakes you may find the easiest way of removing this disk (without rounding the bolt heads…) is to use a ratchet screwdriver and 4mm Alan key attachment.The hill climbing ability is overall pretty good for a 36v 250w front hub motor, was surprised at how light yet full of torque this tiny hub motor has; it certainly improved my single-speed Schwinn bicycle! It gives an unassisted speed of 10mph+ but struggles up slight hills when doing this, going down a hill unassisted will equally slightly higher speeds of 12-14mph. Yet with my single-speed bicycle and pedalling I achieved 17mph, you could easily get to 20mph with a bicycle that has gears though.The real-world range of this for me (in the UK) was 20-25 miles on a single charge. I tested this 36v 7ah battery using a combination of occasional hill climbing and by having the assist setting on maximum (99%/EPL) As for any voltage sag, I noticed a very slight speed drop at below 30% (PWR) battery capacity and that the battery will completely shut off once below 10%/PWR. A full charge from this state takes 3hr 30minutes which is respectable. You could easily get a higher range by reducing the assistance setting though which is comforting for people who like to pedal with more resistance. Without using the motor at all it can be a little difficult to pedal normally due to the extra resistance from the motor and overall weight but not too hard thankfully.The actually installation of this system was pretty great, very straightforward, no issues to be worried about. I’m glad to report the double-walled bike rims are genuine ones that don’t squeak under braking from V-brakes. (unlike some cheap rims that have been painted over on the braking surface…) It fits standard 100mm axle forks too, which is great as some of these ebike motors can be too wide to fit standard front forks!Overall, I’m very happy with this ebike conversion kit and I’m looking forward to many happy miles of cycling yet again; my previous ebike conversion kit (imortor) wasn’t the best you see. This one however, has once again made me fall in love with ebike-based cycling!Update* 55 days later and the wireless motor computer won't switch on, this despite it being fully charged too... Kinda important, as this is how you change assist options. Was advised to open it up and check connections, was difficult to do so as it was glued shut... No connection issues, battery isn't swappable either so kinda pointless to do this.Update** Three months on (October) I'm glad to say the ebike motor and battery are still working perfectly, been waiting a month for that replacement LCD display/controller, still not arrived. (Reckon Brexit might have something to do with this) I'll try messaging them again for a resolution. (I could always order one on their website but I'd prefer it to be resolved on here...)Update*** It took almost two months but I finally received a replacement Bluetooth Computer for this Ebike kit, works perfectly, all I had to do was hold the power button for it to sync with my existing wheel motor.6-month usage update - I've noticed the first signs of battery loss, by which I mean 1mile less range. This could be due to having it on the 80% assist option on a particular cold day though. I use this pretty much every day so it's no surprise the battery is starting to lose some charge. I'm planning on buying an extra battery from the main elecycles website for extra range soon anyway. (PS. Please, release a 9ah+ battery for this kit/motor)Update* May - Turns out there's a new version of this on their main website (EEkit-R) which uses significantly larger battery options 14-17ah, I'm hoping they'll start selling them on here!Update* June 2020, hub motor and battery still going strong.