Reviews – Pedelecs – Electric Bike Community

Safe outside storage for electric bikes With many electric bikes costing upwards of a £1,000, keeping them safe and secure is an important consideration once you’ve got them home. Add in a spare battery costing hundreds of pounds and the traditional garden wooden shed starts to look less than ideal as a place to keep your shiny …

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Having first ridden the Model T when it was launched back in 2013, we put the latest improvements to Momentum Electric’s step-through model to the test.   Ying-Tsao Tan was the product design graduate behind the launch of Momentum’s Model T and Upstart electric bikes. The company’s aim of ‘moving everybody’ meant the design of …

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New kid (bird?) on the block, the Emu electric bike. Who are Emu? Delbanco Meyer & Co Ltd are behind the new Emu brand. Established in 1936, the company is more famous for being the world’s largest bristle merchant but in more recent decades the firm has moved into textiles, property development and now the …

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Wisper’s 905 range is now 10 years old and the latest iteration is touted as having one of the quietest motors on the market. Is the new 905 Torque really whisper quiet? We find out. A little bit about Wisper It was in late 2004, during a business trip to China, that David and Doug …

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Having recently tested the Pony from Riese and Muller’s premium blueLABEL brand, we also had an opportunity to put the Charger Nuvinci with belt drive through its paces   blueLABEL blueLABEL is a separate marketing identity from Germany’s Riese & Muller premium bike manufacturer. Unlike the main R&M range which all have full suspension, blueLABEL …

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Launched successfully on Kickstarter towards the end of 2014 and now in full production, we test the WingLights bike indicators from CYCL, a budding trio of entrepreneurs with a passion for cycling. What are Winglights? Winglights are direction indicators for your bike. They attach to the ends of your handlebars magnetically and have a flashing …

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From the stables of Riese and Muller, next up is our review of the blueLABEL Pony Nuvinci, with belt drive. A little bit about Riese & Muller Started in a garage by Markus Riese and Heiko Muller, this German bicycle company launched their first innovation, the folding full-suspension “Birdy”, back in 1993. In the following …

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An electric folding mountain bike? We review the Xplorer from Powabyke. A little bit about Powabyke Powabyke are one of the oldest electric bike importers in the UK, having started in 1999. More recently, in 2013 long-time employees, Frank Curran and Keith Palmer, took over the company. Powabyke have sold thousands of bikes over the years. …

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A2B Obree Review Next up in our series of e-bike reviews is the urban-styled A2B Obree electric bike. Introduction If you found this review and you are completely new to electric bikes, then it might be worth reading our introductory articles first, our First Timers’ section is here and our Buyers’ Guides section is here. …

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Our review of the Focus Thron continues the series of e-bikes reviewed by members of the Pedelecs forum. What the manufacturer says: “With the E-MTBs from Focus you can experience all the fun of off-roading on difficult trails and breathtaking descents without being at the peak of fitness. And even if you are fighting fit, …

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