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ETRA, the European Twowheel Retailers Association has dissolved and liquidated due to lack of funds. They existed to represent the interests of all two wheel vehicle retailers, but in such a wide field there were conflicts of interest. That which concerned us was motorcycle and moped dealers...

Populations want to see improvement, staying the same is not acceptable to them, nor is the slow rate of natural advancement due to science. It's impossible for any one country to always grow it's economy at a rapid enough rate and even more impossible for all countries to do it at the same...

Includes comment on e-biking trends and supplies: Bike Europe Newsletter

Yet another manufacturer is to enter the German e-bike motor field: News on this link

Barclays Bank who were expected to continue support for the London Cycle Hire Scheme to 2018 has announced that they will terminate support in just over a year's time. Their £25 million support for the scheme is around half the previously expected £50 millions. For a long time their has been...

Long ago the UK was late to the internet party and the Ukraine got in first by grabbing the xxxx.uk domain, leaving us with the clumsy xxxx.co.uk. Now I notice the Ukraine's citizens are demonstrating to obtain EU membership, just at a time when so many UK residents want to be out of the EU...

Latest news of their plans and a photo of the mid motor on this link

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This morning a woman became the 4th London cyclist to be killed in the last 8 days. The collision was at Bow and again involved a left-turning heavy vehicle. Up until last week the London cycling deaths were down on last year, which in turn was down on the year before, but this week has been a...

An information summary on this link More detailed information if wanted in Martins thread on this link

Heard on TV tonight, said by a poor Mozambique farmer and family man: "A house without a bicycle is not a home". Unfortunately, after getting his new bike and riding it a few times he went on to spoil it when he said, "Now I'm going to save up for a motorbike". :(

BBC London TV News announced the death of a cyclist today following a collision with a lorry. He is the third cyclist to die on cycling superhighway CS2 in recent months and the ninth to be killed in London this year. The new cycling superhighways have been heavily criticised by many as being...

Following the failure of STEPS, their last e-bike system, Shimano have announced a new one. No details but let's hope they've learnt from the obvious mistakes of their first effort: This is the news link

Here's a link to an interesting quick-read bike navigation aid, link passed to me by Eddie0: Hammerhead

Report from Bike Europe on this link

Here's the latest from Eddie, with interesting comment on the new Panasonic hub motor: "currently down in Spain enjoying temps up in the 30's in mid October.. This KTM/Pana drive bike is far from perfect, with many issues including overheating and faults on motor needing glueing and sometimes...

The information on this link

Yamaha, the inventors of the PAS system, have at last decided to up their game in the export markets with a new lightweight crank unit to be on new e-bikes from Giant, Winora and Christiansen: New Yamaha venture

Eddie has passed on this link to a new gadget for simply derestricting the Bosch units, leaving them free to power above 15 mph: Bosch unit speed derestrictor On the personal front he's enjoying life and still deciding on his next e-bike choice for 2014, but it will have a Bosch unit powering it.

This announcement hints at possibly going beyond what most car companies have ever done, other than Peugeot most have only marketed a special to help promote their cars. Dahon and Ford proposal