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
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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
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