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  1. oldtom

    Electric Mountain Bikes: No one will buy one?!..

    Even as an unfinished piece of work, that's very good with a nice dose of wit! Tom
  2. oldtom

    Electric Mountain Bikes: No one will buy one?!..

    I'm very disappointed to read that Phill. I do understand that you are not alone in that view though as several contributors here previously have opined similar sentiments. Unfortunately, trivialising lawbreaking or supporting criminal activity says much about society today. Only when one...
  3. oldtom

    Electric Mountain Bikes: No one will buy one?!..

    I agree entirely. It never ceases to astonish me how often correspondents here feign ignorance of the legal implications attached to non-compliant machines. Anyone who manages to use a search engine to find sites like this or ES, then reads some of the posted material cannot help but have some...
  4. oldtom

    Electric Mountain Bikes: No one will buy one?!..

    Probably, some will think this is a crass comment but I think it has some merit: 'Caveat Emptor' For context: Buy a perfectly adequate EAPC and enjoy a good, solid warranty. Buy the same machine and modify it in such a way as to make it something other than an EAPC and lose the extensive...
  5. oldtom

    Electric Mountain Bikes: No one will buy one?!..

    I understand that dealers need to take the rough with the smooth when they choose to enter an end-user forum but I find there has been something of a trend recently of dissatisfied buyers using these pages to air their grievances publicly, in some cases before exhausting other avenues with a...
  6. oldtom

    Selling my Kalkhoff ....£795

    Welcome to Pedelecs. Post #1 - £795 Post #9 - minus £100 You can do the maths but it really is a huge bargain at that price - Mike's almost giving it away! Tom
  7. oldtom

    The Gtech eBike

    Ok, if it helps you, my search engine found this website very easily. It relates to the thread heading but the company make a variety of allegedly 'green' products. https://www.gtech.co.uk Tom
  8. oldtom

    The Gtech eBike

    No. If you think you may be interested to know more about it, just use your favourite search engine to find their website. Tom
  9. oldtom

    The Gtech eBike

    Full-page ad in today's Hebrew Times;), with a yawn-inducing description of its abilities. However, there's a 14-day free trial whereby you can test the machine and if not completely satisfied, you just call them and they'll collect it and provide a full refund. It's a single speed...
  10. oldtom

    E-bike prices

    It's not that they cannot Bob but it has probably much to do with the purpose of bike ownership over the last half century. Two or three generations now have had no need of a bike except as children and then only as a play thing. All those small-wheeled, small-framed bikes that kids and...
  11. oldtom

    How much power am I contributing?

    There's a couple of screens on the display unit of my Xion PC that depict live-time watts usage, (1) from the motor and (2) from my effort. - completely pointless technology in my opinion. Try though I may, I really can't think how that kind of information benefits me in any way. Tom
  12. oldtom

    Do you whinge when you get a puncture?

    Well, now that I have seen this, I'll never again complain if I find myself out in the sticks when it's p'ing rain and I need to fix a flat....... Tom
  13. oldtom

    Electric Mountain Bikes: No one will buy one?!..

    Stop plagiarising my old posts young Elderfield! You know it upsets all the criminals who knowingly ride illegally.;) Tom
  14. oldtom

    Bottle Carrier

    You need to get with the programme d8veh! - it's got nothing to do with hydration and everything to do with style. Selling bottled water is a huge, multi-million pound industry and to ensure it stays that way, large sums of money are spent on advertising, usually portraying smiley, youthful...
  15. oldtom

    Just found out I will be losing my job...

    That must have been a heart-rending choice to have to make. I wish you all the very best from this point on. Tom
  16. oldtom

    Hi - I need some help choosing a bike for my wife

    Yes John, they are rather expensive but should anyone baulk at the price, one can choose a kit elsewhere from a variety of sources which can be tailored to suit. To end up with a bike of 17Kgs or even far less though, may not save a great deal of money but at least the choice of donor bike is...
  17. oldtom

    Hi - I need some help choosing a bike for my wife

    The 2-speed models were dropped quite early in the bike's gestation and were replaced with a simpler version which provides assistance from very low speed up to cut-off. The Tongxin is a low-powered motor but it's all that's required. Tom
  18. oldtom

    Hi - I need some help choosing a bike for my wife

    Jules, I missed your original post in this thread earlier so I apologise for misleading you somewhat. As far as I'm aware, Cytronex retain a base in Winchester and I don't think they sell through agents elsewhere in the UK, let alone overseas. Your location means it would make more sense to...
  19. oldtom

    Hi - I need some help choosing a bike for my wife

    If you want 'off-the-shelf', you could do worse than consider the offerings from 'Cytronex', aka 'No Hills'. They produce a range of lightweight, (some very light!), bikes from fairly decent manufacturers which are easily ridden with power switched off but are transformed for hills or headwinds...
  20. oldtom

    You got a moped!

    Is it clearly a bicycle? To me, it looks like something that may have once met that criteria but is now so modified that it probably doesn't meet the criteria for an EAPC, (treated as a bicycle), so how do you suggest it should be referred to in the nomenclature of two-wheeled, road-going...