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With the ever more prominent selling of illegally fast e-bikes, it had to happen before long. The story is on this link .

One of Halford's trucks bearing their large "WE FIT" slogan has got stuck under a low bridge at Beckenham. Seems they don't fit that well:

In Northern Europe e-bike sales continue to boom, countries like The Netherlands and Germany measuring annual sales in hundreds of thousands. Their car markets in many cases are in the doldrums, consumers widely electing to keep their present cars long term. It's just been reported that the UK...

More story on this link .

I bet that made a few sit up! In his case he had made a considerable amount of money of course to get that sentence. However, it raises an important point for anyone who buys to sell, wishing to make a profit, since that make them a trader. Contrary to what some believe, the declaration of...

A to B magazine has been reviewing e-bikes far longer than any other publication, but these comments in the editorial of the latest issue concerning readers comments about their recent content raised my eyebrows: - - - And there seems to be general relief that we're not testing so many electric...

News in this Bike Europe story .

Previously the major adopter of BionX, this Trek move will be painful for BionX, especially as it publicises the reliability problems: Full story on this link .

You can read about it on this BikeEurope link .

Martin at e-bikeshop has passed an article to me with further information on this motor which I thought you might appreciate seeing. Here's the link .

Thanks to CycleZee, the UK's eZee electric bike agent being based there, Milton Keynes gets quite few mentions in this forum. I've just listened to an interesting program by Deborah Meaden of Dragon's Den fame on BBC Radio 4: "Doing it the Milton Keynes Way" in which, after seemingly...

BikeEurope brings news that Speed Pedelec sales have doubled in Holland and many are able to register and plate them there. The more they spread into legal use beyond Germany within the EU may soften the attitude of other EU governments towards their adoption: Article Link

The subject of the last "In Business" program from BBC Radio 4 was what industry is doing to meet the need for much better batteries. Included are a number of ideas both in development and at the suggestion stage, some of potential interest for e-bikes and much of interest for smart phones...

South Korea is to be a larger player in the e-bike market, rather than just the electronics and battery cells: News on this link

Accell Group, Europe's largest cycle and e-bike manufacturing group announce new ION drives. Their confident forecast of a small decline in hub motors and very large increase in crank drive mid motors is interesting: News here .

Following the news of the insolvency of AVE bikes in Germany, here's yet another failure there, showing that overall trading is far from being in good health. In the depressed post recession market throughout Europe it seems only the strongest businesses can survive and any hint of weakness can...

This link is to the article, the new STEPS looks to be a promising legal system, far better than their original concept. .

On last Wednesday BBC Radio 4 had a half-hour cycling friendly program about the above. It's available on the BBC i-player for four more days yet on this link

A shock announcement that the German makers of the AVE e-bikes owned by some members are insolvent, due to the difficult trading conditions in the past year. A restart is hoped for: Fuller information on this link

See this thread in the main forum for the future possibility.