Hi all! Having just collected my 1st C5 and after playing around with the battery cover, I took it for its first run. The contacts from the master switch...
Hi Pat, Yeah, mine gets that occasionally... things to check are the battery terminals, clean and smear with copper grease, gold terminals help btw, followed...
Thanks Chris, Ill do as you suggest. Regards PatM ps, bit of a surprise last night when the sound like a shotgun was heard in the neighbourhood- an inner tube...
They're very hard uphill. I rode mine from London to Cambridge a month ago (annual charity bike ride) which has a couple of fairly steep hills. I planned to to...
Talk to the guys at Warlands Bicycles in Botley Oxford, they get my tyres and usually have them in stock... you want Schwalbe tyres with Schwalbe tubes.........
Welcome to the world of long-distance C5's :-))...... The low battery cutoff is to stop it disintegrating the battery plates..... if the top speed is falling...
Chris. Thanks. I took the wheels off last night, and the inner tube was the original and had split along the seam. The driven wheel had a retro-fit tube- the...
Hi fellow C5'rs Having purchased my C5 only this week, I have done various maintenance items on it, and given up on the battery connector plate/switch. I...
Could it be by your own admission that you have connected it to "an old gel battery" which probably has a different discharge gradient to the original lead...
Hi Chris, thanks for responding. I mentioned the old gel cell, as it was an obvious failure, but I had some good technical advice which made me buy a new...
Cool... just as I suspected - I was wrong again !!! ha ha . Another thing to check is the continuity and resistance values of the comms wiring (bunch of red...
Cool... just as I suspected - I was wrong again !!! ha ha . Another thing to check is the continuity and resistance values of the comms wiring (bunch of red...
Patrick The C5 has a 20second delay on its comparator circuits so it checks the primary voltage on the battery when it is first turned on and then does nothing...
Just found a great site for new parts where a complete set of tyres and tubes cost just £28. Mine are now on order. Can be found at www.c5alive.co.uk...
Hi, Does anyone have instructions for fitting and using the C5 Direction Indicators? If you do, can you please e-mail them to chris@... Kind regards ...
Chris. -download the service manual thats posted on the site- Its all there! Regards PatM cgexpouk <chris@...> wrote: Hi, Does anyone have instructions...
Since I do not have a working battery to test the electrics with, can I hook up my C5 with a 12v DC (regulated) power supply - as in what I would use on my...
try with a car battery charger.. robert "the only C5 owner in Sweden" ... From: cgexpouk To: the-C5-club@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004...
... [Tim] I would be careful about using a std battery charger as the output is less than stable or regulated. A CD plaver PSU is probably not powerful enough...
Hi. Not sure if you have a response to this, as Im picking up 3 days of email, having just got back to work. On no account press the motor start button if you...
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Mark Koeberle
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Sep 10, 2004 5:16 pm
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I tried to fit a wireless speedo,didn't have much luck anyone else figured out how to get a decent speed reading and can they reccomend a speedo in...
Mark Koeberle
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Sep 11, 2004 8:20 pm
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Mark Get hold of Martin Newell and look at his website- its go all the info and tells you what one to get, and he tells me you can set the correct wheel...
I've had one working several times..... you need a spoked front wheel (find a sixteen-spoke trailer wheel and it will be OK) and then just program in the...
Thanks Chris and Pat for the replies,Martin's website has pics which explain everything,i went wrong before fitting the sensor on the motor side and as Chris...
Mark Koeberle
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Sep 12, 2004 9:22 am
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Does anyone have a drive gear with or without clutch bearing for sale? Part No. C5674 353....
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