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I think off-road is where the problems are, they can have a tough life climbing steep ascents etc and do fail quite frequently and then you face huge repair bills as Bosch is pretty much a controlled environment with no 3rd party compatible components like batteries. I think for a general...

Also the heavier rider may have a lot more muscle mass and be capable of generating more watts so there is a variable there. The chap in that video is quite elderly and dare I suggest not capable of particular high wattage. Soo many variables I would find it hard to make a decent analysis but...

Those basic low end dual suspension bikes need constant attention and adjustment. Unfortunately Halfords aren't like a independent bike shop that would just say take it away not worth repairing because they sell such models themselves. I've spoken to staff in both Halfords and Cycle Republic and...

Sadly the battery is a huge chunk of the price of an ebike and when the battery is end of life with very little charge capacity people will sell on their ebikes for the maximum they can get and many people don't seem to factor in the state of the battery when they buy s/hand ebikes so prices are...

Basically a few months before I got covid I'd done an injury to my feett that caused Plantar Fasciitis due to walking a long distance in poor shoes. Then I got covid at the beginning of 2020 and suffered from long covid from then on. The long covid puts you in a inflammed state with congestion...

Like you I am a heavy cyclist so 45 miles is the max I've done in a day but hope to achieve more. I'm recovering from long covid and have some heel pain indirectly related to long covid. So just doing that 70 mile trip will be a huge challenge for me which I'm not quite ready for. I should...

7.8 miles is probably more than the majority of the world's population have ridden a bike. A huge number never ride a bike except as a child for short journeys. My mother rode a bike many years ago and I think she said only about 3 or 4 miles maximum. The most I've ridden a bike in a day is...

Whatever works for you but it seems like it will now be much harder for Cube to be competitive in the UK at least until they fully adapt and just have bikes coming straight from China or Bangladesh etc to the UK. My point isn't don't buy Cube but just don't pay over the top for the brand focus...

I think they have factories in China plus Cambodia and Vietnam so can cleverly avoid EU tariffs. I think companies like Halfords change factories fairly frequently, some of their bikes at the moment are coming from Insera Sena in Indonesia but some are coming from Cambodia and this could be...

I would imagine being a German importer now with the Brexit arrangement they can't use the 'last significant process' rule to pretend the bikes are sourced from Germany and would have to pay additional taxes to sell into the UK. They probably have set prices for the year so it made no...

I'm sure they all measure at the crank/bottom bracket axle. There are some many variables to incorporate into the power output of motors fitted to ebikes. For a start many of these so called 250W nominal/rated motors often peak at upto 700W or more and that is perfectly legal commercial ebikes...

Not worth looking into getting the Crossfire repaired? How many miles do you get out of a charge, 20 miles maybe? Well 20 miles x 500 charges is 10,000 miles so the battery should still have capacity left and doesn't the bike have a common issue with a torque sensor. It feels like with a bit of...

I don't know why but I found it quite amusing watching him ride that entry level ebike. He normally rides I guess you would say mid-range road bikes and so was interesting to see his perspective on a low end tourney freewheel based drivetrain. His perspective is as valid as anyone else's I...

Are you the person to give a fair opinion on them. You keep calling them Halfrauds and yet Halfords massively undercut the price of bikes compared to many independent bike shops. I bought a Carrera Subway 8 about 9 or 10 years ago for £240 and got £80 in spending on accessories which was an...

There are people on youtube filming their uber, stuart and just eat deliveries that use their suntour equipped ebikes for a huge number of miles per day who haven't reported issues. Here is one channel but there are quite a few that are using Carrera ebikes mostly either the Subway or Crossfire...

I wouldn't argue against that but Halfords are so massive in the UK with something like 40% of all bikes sales across a huge number of stores. There are more bikes sold at Halfords than all independent bike shops in the UK put together and Halfords sell lower cost bikes where as independent bike...

There is no shame in getting off and walking sometimes for hilly sections. When a heavy rider tries to get up a steep hill that puts a lot of extra stress and fatigue on the frame in the bottom bracket area as you work hard to cycle up the hill but often its very slow and seems pointless...

My vote goes to the Woosh bike but it should be pointed out Halfords have sold a huge number of ebikes, they have about 40% of the UK bike market by volume and about 25% by revenue. The Crossfire has been a huge seller so there is going to be more issues reported than Woosh who are a tiny brand...

I think both Cube and Scott have used Giant for some of the high end bicycles and you pay a premium of something like 30% over the equivalent Giant model. My point is Cube and Scott are not the actual manufacturer so they wouldn't negotiate discounts from SRAM or Shimano the actual...

Cube and Scott are just brands, the bikes come from Asia pretty much and the factory used may vary by price point and year. High end models often come from Taiwan but lower end models might come from Bangladesh or similar. How much you pay determines how good a factory they can use. If you buy...