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our local free paper is carrying a front page ad for Flynnstar Bicycles of Felixstowe, and offering 10% off new bikes if the ad is cut out and taken to the shop. they also mention prominently they sell electric bikes, on further investigation it appears they are a Powabyke dealer... Good to see...

At the moment I've got no less than 3 front lights on my Wisper. One Cateye EL-500, an Edinburgh Bicycle "revolution" 1W LED and also a converted Basta 1925 "dynamo" light (in fact being powered from a 6V 4Ah water bottle battery I had from another light set). This might seem like overkill but...

already passed 1000 miles on the Wisper 905 I got in September... not had any major problems other than replacing the tyres - but what maintenance should I be doing at this point? Should the chain be replaced soon? Hopefully my chain breaker tool has not got mislaid somewhere (I knew I packed...

Today I ended up replacing those Kenda tyres on my Wisper - after 880 miles, one had started to fail at the bead (at least I think that is what you call the bit by the rim) - I guess it was already on the way out and just as I got to work there was a loud "hissss" and I saw my tyre rapidly...

Been wondering about this for a while.. I think there are a fair few people around like myself - men aged 25-45, not quite teenagers but still "young at heart" - either single or with a young family - in a professional career with a reasonable income, but for whom either the cost or...

today I put together a flat pack office chair.... not a particularly expensive one either - and the base of this was also aluminum alloy. Just a couple of years ago these were normally ferrous (cast iron). myself and others mentioned this in connection with bicycle frames, where "fashion" was...

I think its been briefly hinted at on thie forum but I remember it being mentioned that one reason the traditional 700c wheeled utility bike (such as a Kahlkoff) was popular in the Scandinavian/Teutonic nations was as much an image thing as its practicality.. Although mopeds and scooters are...

How do you specify and measure one? in about 2004 I got a new saddle for my Dawes Horizon from Wiggle, but I've lost the code for my old wiggle account when I lived in Reading so can't see what it is from previous orders. This saddle has subsequently been transferred to my Powacycle Salisbury...

Disclaimer : I am not a shareholder of UTN although after seeing the effect this announcement has had on their share prices I wish I had bought a load in the last bear market ;) Distribution Agreement - London Stock Exchange

I have decided that I am going to try and be as self sufficient as possible for bike maintenance - I already do a certain amount myself and its really only stuff like spoke tensioning, re-truing and replacing large drive train components I use mechanics for, although these are skills I intend to...

Over the past week or so i had noticed an intermittent power delivery on pedelec mode when I was in "stop start" type of traffic. it had gone mostly unnoticed because I tend to use the throttle more (whilst still pedalling) but started to get particularly bad in the last few days. On closer...

Having joined the ranks of those with more than one e-bike, I've decided to keep the Powacycle Salisbury for the moment and use it as a backup or for journeys into town / shopping as the extra power is welcome when carrying stuff back, plus I feel slightly more comfortable locking the Salisbury...

Having consulted with one of the towns best local bike mechanics (the same chap who sourced and replaced the Powacycle spoke at short notice) with regard to service etc I decided to take the plunge and order a Wisper from e-bikes direct.. Despite ordering fairly late yesterday afternoon the...

does anyone know what the exact dimensions of these are and where to get them from? I just had my Salisbury serviced and there was a broken spoke on the rear wheel (apparently it had been like that for some time) - the LBS were unable to immediately source a replacement and said that "they did...

1 x Giant Lafree (outside Wilkinsons...) 1 x Powabyke (not sure what kind but the old style with the batteries in the frame)....

Are there any dealers of e-bikes (particularly Wispers) in Ipswich or Mid Suffolk (Stowmarket etc), Felixstowe or Colchester or any of these areas? I am looking to eventually upgrade, most likely to a Wisper 905 City, but am looking for a closer dealer than ETS in Cambridge - I don't drive /...

A friend of mine is converting a Bedford TK horsebox into a motorhome. Him and his missus wish to have a 24V DC system with the ability to be charged by solar panels for running their computers and some hi fi equipment. He asked me about some lead acid batteries he saw on e-bay (Yuasa NPL...

one of these caps on the rear wheel nuts of my Salisbury has fallen off somewhere (probably along the B1113, and thus could be anywhere between Ipswich, Stowmarket and Finningham or beyond!!) What is the actual purpose of these things? I notice the Wisper 905 also appears to have them, but I...

This weekend I was chatting to some of my younger friends, one of whom had seen me on my ebike whilst driving a van in town. I do use panniers and my saddle position is such I sit directly over the battery so this hides the motor and battery a bit, but he hadn't noticed anything "odd" about the...