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I see that Golf, Speed Skating and Rugby Sevens have been put forward for inclusion as Olympic sports. :confused: Tut, tut. :( Whatever next? E-bike Polo? :eek: .

My websites are on free space from an ISP that I used to use for everything, but since switching my broadband to a much better ISP, I'm forced to load webpages using a dial-up connection. With high contention, loading them is often troublesome, and usually impossible in the evenings when...

Emmanuel, a French Pedelec enthusiast, has started a website showing photos of his stripped down new generation Panasonic unit, but he had no access to an old one. We've therefore started a collaboration enabling him to reproduce my old Panasonic unit pages in French, and in return I've been...

As well as the continuing Tour de France in it's last week, ITV4 nightly at 7 pm, there's these two programs which might be of interest to members. Tonight (Thursday) 10.05 pm BBC4, Thoroughly Modern How Edwardian technology helped the bicycle become a universal mode of transportation regarded...

Lovely comment on the BBC Radio 4 "Material World" program this afternoon, reflecting the bullying nature of modern government. A guest speaking about a green transport issue said "There are some cities where people like to cycle, or where the council decides they like to cycle". :D. Brilliant. .

The BH E-motion has won a challenge competition against 14 other makes competing at the Monaco F1 circuit. Story here UK agents are Onbike .

When selling and buying most vehicles the value is generally well understood and a fair price easily worked out, but with e-bikes there's clearly a problem since prices asked are often unrealistic and in many cases owners and buyers haven't any idea what the right price should be, as shown by...

The supply of Lafree 14 tooth motor sprockets that A to B Magazine have arranged manufacture of are now ready for any owners or dealers requiring them. These are precision CNC machined items, not the original pressed steel ones. When Giant last had spares they cost £30 each, but the prices...

I've come across further makes now using the Panasonic unit other than Panasonic themselves, bringing the total to 15 makes, many of them having several models. Most are not yet on our UK market, but here's the latest list, and I've turned the newest additions into links for you to see some of...

This month's Velovision issue 34 has the long awaited full review of the GoCycle. It seems my previous strong criticism of the shallow rim profile of the cast magnesium wheels was justified, since the handbook now warns owners to check them every 500 miles for cracks, especially around the five...

Bike Europe report that the German Eurobike show has doubled the space allocated for e-bikes, reflecting the huge sales expansion of these throughout Europe. Full details in this story: E-bikes sales in Europe .

Over a year ago I entered a contentious thread for debate on the motion that e-mopeds would win out over e-bikes. Link. The news that Giant, the world's largest bicycle maker and also a major maker of e-bikes is making the major change of entering the e-moped market after so many years of being...

Bike Europe reports 26% by value of dealer sales of bikes are now e-bikes, which I've found means almost 9% of all bikes sold nationally there are electric assist models. That's far ahead of our recent average of 1% of bike sales being electric in the UK, though our proportion is starting to...

Extra Energy have tested 28 e-bike models from 22 manufacturers for this Spring. Heres a preview of the results .

Not for the first time I've just seen someone posting their fears about the wisdom of buying a good e-bike in view of the faults being reported in the forum. When service like the example below is given by a supplier where the customer had only just reported the fault to them, there's really...

There's no surer sign of an immature technology than a lack of agreement on how to do things, and this showed from the beginning with electric assist bikes having some 18 ways of driving them in various models. With increasing maturity the e-bike market has largely settled into either front or...

The new issue of A to B magazine going out now has an article on keeping the Giant Lafree bikes on the road. A to B have arranged for a number of new motor drive sprockets to be made at £15 each, less than half Giant's last price for these. They have also cracked the problem of a failed...

A radio program that may be of interest to pedelecers: Mark Miodownik explores how batteries work and how they have been limited by the laws of physics. Looking to the future he examines what role they could play in the electric car industry and powering commercial aircraft, and meets the...

If anyone wants one of the li-ion chargers used by eZee and wants to avoid the current £95, one ebay seller has 10 of that type apparently complete with the correct XLR connector for the battery. They are priced at £42.99 plus £6.99 P & P via Parcelforce: Li-ion chargers on ebay Check the...

The subject of getting type approval for a faster e-bike regularly crops up in threads with the same questions being asked and doubts expressed, so I thought a thread to form a permanent reference point would be a good idea. Here I'm trying to cover the whole subject of what is necessary and...