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2007 Ezee Torq for sale in Glasgow with 500 miles on the clock. Battery still giving good mileage as power was used very sparingly. I found I didn't need the help I thought I would for the Glasgow hills and soon switched over to a non-powered bicycle - hence low mileage and excellent...

You are right I should do it myself. It was just a bit surprising to get turned back in a shop with me ready to part with my cash, never happened to me before. Especially as the second shop was a regular AtoB magazine advertiser. He is a nice bloke though. Actually I was in his shop looking...

Has anyone else has problems getting a local bike shop to work on their electric bike? I went into two today, the first suggested that I go to a nearby shop that specialised in electric bikes - so I did. Unfortunately the mechanic in the second shop said he only worked on bikes he had sold...

Guys, thanks for the info on this. I have put in an order at wiggle for the grips and rotated the handlebars upto the maximum. Tomorrow will be a week since I had to stop cycling and my right wrist still hurts so fingers crossed that this will solve it. It has been about 20 years (as a...

Can I ask where discomfort is being felt by people that own a Torq? I have had two weeks of doing 70-80 miles and have had to stop riding as my right wrist is killing. Most of that distance was under my own steam (only using motor for hills that I can't keep bike speed above 12mph - trying to...

There isn't much of a difference in price between US and UK that I can see. If you go to one of Ezee dealers Electric Bikes Northwest they don't include delivery in the price and US retailers don't include sales tax. If you include their delivery rate and account for VAT then the Torq...

Hi Blanny, I bought my Torq through the bike to work scheme. I was allowed to go up to 1000 pre VAT (i.e. 1175 post VAT). 50cycles billed the 75 quid charger to me and the rest of the bike to my employer. Works out a very small monthly amount spread over three years. Plus the Torq is a...

Wow you are getting serious proposing an experiment ;) I would suggest keeping as many parameters the same as possible, same rider, same bike, same hill, but increase the mass of the rider with a weight in a rucksack or on the rack of your bike if you have one. Keeping the same setup but...

Hi Ian I didn't say that the heavier rider would accelerate faster due to gravity. Both riders would accelerate at exactly the same speed in the absence of wind resistance (assuming rolling and mechanical resistance is the same). The acceleration due to gravity is a constant. It is the...

Hi guys, As there has been a lot of attempts to explain this phenomenon involving non-equivalent variables (kinetic energy, force, acceleration, pressure etc.) I have to jump in here in support of Rooel's post. Rooel quotes a post from another forum: "....the heavy rider has...