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The Italian government are considering a tax restitution 30% money back on e-bike purchases to help their popularity: Read more here .

A to B magazine issue 70 (March) reports that the high speed e-bike class in Germany has now been outlawed, due to it's success. Presumably this means it's adoption by users was so widespread it threatened to become the de facto standard in lieu of the EU 25 kph (15.5 mph). The brief existence...

It seems the Velib bike rental scheme in Paris is facing disaster, well over half the bikes lost or stolen, plus other problems which you can read about here: Velib scheme update .

Many of you took part in a focus group answering questions for Jack Eagle to assist him in a report for his studies. Jack has now posted his thanks to all members here and has passed for his MSc degree with his successful project. To make his PDF report available to download for members...

From my first post to start Russell's forum to this, the ten thousandth, it's been an eventful two and a quarter years, but it's still fun taking part with all of you. So I thought I'd dedicate this thread and my 10,000th post to the fun of cycling, and what better photo could there be than...

There won't be much cycling here on the South London/North Surrey border in the morning, quite deep snow and two Range Rovers have failed to make it up my 1 in 7 hill. Seems from the forecasters there's a wide band of this from North Kent crossing right across Surrey. Any in your area? .

Just heard on BBC London TV news that purely electric cars in London have reached a total of 1729 in January 2009, and there's now a call for an increase in the on-street charging points for these. Of course it's the exemption from the £8 a day congestion charge that's been the main element in...

E-bikes are still a technology in it's infancy with nothing like a consensus on design. Models in the first decade to about 2001 tended towards either drive through the chain or drive directly onto a tyre via an abrasive roller, but as time went on the hub motor in either wheel increasingly...

Yep, I'm feeling mischievous! :D I've just seen yet another poster claiming he wouldn't be posting if he hadn't been wearing a helmet when he had a crash. Apart from the fact that the many who regularly say such things cannot possibly know that, one wonders about all the non-wearers who...

Congratulations to Chris Hoy on a knighthood for his Olympic cycling achievements, but it prompted further thoughts on the privileges of cycling. Chris Hoy rides a bike successfully and gets a knighthood, Lewis Hamilton drives a car successfully and gets a bottom ranking MBE. A car driver who...

This month's issue 32 of Velovision magazine has a test of a range of kits, both fitting and usage tested. The following kits are reviewed: Tongxin Nano Alien Heinzmann Sunstar BionX There's also mention of the present and forthcoming bikes and kits from: Cytronex eZee Gruber assist...

New Mayor for London Boris Johnson has announced the winner of the new routemaster design competition, a consortium including Aston Martin! It's a full size double decker with front engine, a wide ramp central access for whelchairs and an open rear platform jump on access. Of course these...

Just heard about the new BYD electric hybrid on a Radio 4 program, and it strikes me as a very sensible cheaper way of having hybrid power than the expensive and immensely complex Toyota Prius. Quite simply, it's an electric car when setting off, with a top speed of 100 mph and acceleration of...

Ginat have now discontinued the Twist II model using NiMh batteries, not surprising since good high discharge NiMh cells are becoming increasingly impossible to source, the high discharge market having switched almost entirely to lithium. Much more important is that Giant have at long last...

In 2006 Russ invited me to become his new forum's first member, and the forum was fully open in October with new members joining. So it's our second anniversary, and a chance to say a public thank you to Russ (Russell Scott) for creating what has become an institution in the world of e-biking. .

We've been having many queries, especially from UK members, about the BikeTech bikes, and especially their high speed models. This post is an up to date collection of the latest information on all the Panasonic motored bikes together with today's UK prices. C Series; 26” wheel size Low step...

Slightly off subject but with some common interest for us, there's a radio program about the failure of the electric or hydrogen car to appear so far: Costing the Earth, tonight, BBC Radio 4, 9 pm. Repeated at 3 pm tomorrow, also on BBC Radio 4. .

N.B. Article by Chris_Bike, entered here by flecc Flecc challenged me to write an article on what makes for an efficient bike and I’ve fallen for it! We are talking about human-powered bikes here, but most of the same principles will apply to power-assisted bikes to one degree or another. The...

Just been viewing the bendy buses in Beijing, together with hordes of cyclists meandering around in all directions, and wondered why we seem to have so much of a problem with them. They don't seem to there, and bendy buses have operated for years on the continent, seemingly without problems...

A pedelec doesn't deliver power unless you are pedalling, and e-bike is a throttle controlled bike, strictly speaking, though the term is often used for all electric assist bikes. These are electric assist, so not intended for use moped fashion. The more powerful ones with a 70 kilo rider...