My bike is made in Taiwan!!, bought from a local supplier in Ilkeston which I found on ebay, its a GMB L'avenir it has a 24v, 10ah, lithium battery, step thru design with carrier & basket so I can load up camera gear to follow this interest whilst getting fit. Its battery assist so you have to pedal constantly needed to get fit, currently i'm doing about an hour a day to get some fitness plus bottom hardened before going farther the bike copes fine with the never ending hills with my pedal input so its a good starter bike at a budget price I think, £400 new.
Experienced pedelec's may also know this bike as a Merida 500/510. It still seems a bit strange to me as all my previous bikes were racing bikes, atb, Mike