Hi Mandy
The German bike is fine especially at that price!!
The New Forest event was not a busy as we had hoped for so this year we are treating it more like an open day, if other manufacturers want to come they would be very welcome, I thoroughly enjoyed last year and met lots of people from the Pedelecs site even the famous Flecc! I do hope you can make it.
Have you heard anything about Presteign this year?
The problem with the expense of properly marketing e-bikes is that all marketing activities will have to be paid for by you the customer in the price of the bike, and we are already experiencing pressure to keep prices down. This is at a time when because of the Chinese engineers wanting to be paid a fair wage and the high cost of new battery technology prices are going up very quickly.
So......... we can sell more bikes if we spend more on marketing, but if we put the price of the bikes up we sell less bikes, Catch 22!
Best regards David