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busy city centre inc bike paths: 15mph - feels very fast in traffic suberbs. 25mph max but mostly under 20mph. open countryside with good quality roads: 30 mph.

with 2 lead acid bricks the currie will be heavy. If you have to carry the bike anywhere, especially up stairs or outside steps I'd definatley recommend a bike with nimh batteries. Better value for money aswell as lead batteries will die more quickly

to make things worse there's an awful lot of useless bikes being sold. I know of two people who've had really lowsy experiences, one with a with cheap bike bought from ebay. One of them bought a scooter type bike, gave it one uphill test run. (it didn't make it and wieghed a ton) and sent it...

Thats good to know. I had my eye on a cheapish looking lafree on ebay (eBay.co.uk: Excellent Electric Bicycle - Bike Twist Comfort (item 330082809671 end time 06-Feb-07 12:22:19 GMT)) and was thinking of rebuilding it and making it more powerful. Perhaps not such a good base bike for the...

I'd love a bike with variable gearing. Always got my eye on a second hand lafree's but they only seem to go for megamoney.

Flecc, Whats its like getting parts? Do you think it would be possible to get a replacement motor? Its a brushed motor right?

While we're waiting for an update on the situation in Germany ;) there seems to be some kind of movement towards higher power bikes in australia. Here's a link Electric Vehicles - E-Bikes Today There's an even better pdf file of the actual study somewhere but I can't seem to find it...

Thats great news. I'm not going to miss it this year!

This seems good news. I too would like to hear more info on the new German laws.

Does anyone know? I didn't get the chance to go last year but I loved the a-b writeup of the 'bike race'.

Miles, According to this Electric bicycle laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia the US law motor rating is "750 watt average power". I presume that means a continuos not peak rating. I've also heard as much elsewhere.

$64000 question. Is the Eurodirective a minimum specification and/or a maximum specification for member states. In otherwords is it possible for a member state, say us the UK, to bring in legislation to create a second class of high speed ebikes? I presume that this is posiible if the EU...

Really nice to see people asking questions and writing letters. I think 25mph would be a fair top speed for a new "high speed" class of electric bike but I wonder if we shouldn't aim higher than 400 watts. I quite like the legislation they have in the states. This is a federal law...

**bump** I missed this one. Yeah, your right Flecc, looks like I misread the data on the paper.

I charge my nimh batteries outside. So far i've noticed a rise in performance with this cold weather, this seems to fit with this faq http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/nickelmetalhydride_appman.pdf Which says optimum temperature is 10 Celsius, with capicity reducing droping when either...

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I'd be curious to know how easy to derestrict they are, the US one runs at 400 watts I think.

Thats a great deal. They've been out the states for a while with many good reports. They use a brush gear Unite motor , simple technology. For some reason they sell for $300 in the states. Frustrating that stuff's so much more expensive here.

There loads of different kits to choose from. Here's 3 you might be interested in. 1: The currie electrodrive. I have this kit and I love it. there's lots of options and upgrades you can do. such as differnt gearing for higher speed or more torque and more powerful motors you can bolt on...

True, But don't forget voltage sag from the internal resistance of the battery. I tried this recently with my currie system. Before i had one 24 volt 13AH pack now I have 2 24 volt 13AH packs in parallel. With the packs in parallel I have gained at extra 2 mph. The pack voltage now only...