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With a higher exchange rate forecast, there could be appreciable increases in made in China products. You can read about it on this link: Bike Europe, Yuan appreciation .

You can read the announcement here on this link: Bike Europe .

Shimano haven't hung around since first announcing they were entering the e-bike component market. This could worry Suzhou with their Bafang motors: Announcement .

Do lithium batteries last longer with frequent part charges? I'm now not so sure due to the following accumulated evidence. 1) I owned three of the original eZee Li-ion batteries which were all treated with care, and since I'm not a commuter most of the charges were frequent and part only...

Off subject, apologies, but if a fan, see here: Petition to save .

David Henshaw of A to B magazine has mailed an appeal to save a threatened paddle steamer by adding your name to a petition. I shouldn't love these classics since one of them was the only one of numerous boats ever to make me seasick. My fault though, for predictably spending the whole trip as...

Information from A to B magazine, issue 76, February 2010 The Department for Transport has finally agreed to sort out Britain's tangled e-bike legislation, and the proposed changes are currently out to consultation, with responses welcome until 30th March, 2010. The most important proposed...

This new hub gear will probably make inroads into the sales of the hugely expensive Rohloff 14 speed hub Alfine quality, 11 gears and over 400% range against the 300% of the 8 speed hub, I think this will prove popular. It should be a lot cheaper than the circa £600 Rohloff too: Announcement...

No "S" models then. .

In the 1970s we were told that we were entering a period of global freezing, heading towards a new ice age. In fact in 1976, the UK had one of the longest hottest summers ever on record, and the remainder of that decade wasn't very cold. At the start of the last decade we were told that we are...

I've now added an illustrated Technical section to the lithium battery page of my Panasonic unit website, plus an illustrated page of charger details. Both the lithium battery and charger are linked to under the "New Type Unit" heading on the Index Page. My particular thanks to Fecn for...

I've now gathered all the information on the Panasonic Lithium Polymer batteries and placed it on a webpage on my Panasonic unit website as a convenient reference source. My particular thanks to JamesC for his feedback of experience with three of these batteries. On the link below, go to...

Paris has extended it's subsidies on buying scooters to include e-bikes now. Since Italy has already had a subsidy scheme, maybe one day the idea will extend to Britain, or at least our major cities, London I would think a prime candidate. Here's the story on the Paris scheme, the e-bike...

In parallel to what Andy Grayland has mentioned in the batteries section, Wai Won Ching has confirmed to me that Onbike is now the official eZee brand distributor for the UK. Once the leading upper price range e-bike brand in the UK, a period of trouble due to failures of the batteries supplied...

Just about to start on Radio 4 is a program of the above title which you can catch up with on I-player later. Here's the blurb: "In 2008, Bristol won the bid to become Britain's first cycling city, despite having lots of hills and narrow roads. Miles Warde cycles around the city to find out...

In all my years of cycling in my area, including over six years on e-bikes, I've never seen one being ridden, though two years ago I saw one locked to a bike stand. Today I saw a very elderly man in an obviously new helmet and reflective bike jacket pushing a brand new Powabyke Shopper along...

This can only be good news for e-bikes in the long term. They're talking about hub gears and motors combined it seems, but anotheer urgent need is for a sprocket cassette system that fits on the larger hub motor spindles. Hopefully that will be realised eventually. Here's the story...

Bike Europe announces that Dutch manufacturer Sparta are introducing a new budget e-bike called the e-motion, immediately bringing confusion with Spanish manufacturer BH with their E-motion range. There's also two different Chinese made e-bikes on sale in the USA, both called e-motion, and...

I've just completed another series of updates to the Maintenance, Repairs and Modifications section of my Panasonic unit website. Changes include extended information on the battery mounting adjustment, a Running In section. Meter Readout Fluctuation advice, and a section on the hand throttle...

This is a continuation by request of this post of mine in the main forum, where I was asked to give more examples of dealing with problems. Throughout you'll see good humour, kindness and respect, never any confrontational words, but complete confidence. This last is very important, not...