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    £1000+ on a bike partner response

    start leaving empty beer cans, bottles about, talk about stress levels, Buy mountain biker (with all that lycra) Might work, when I mentioned electric Jenny said "make sure you get something good, not a bit of £300 rubbish"
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    GreenEdge or Dahon folders, anyone?

    The Blackstar is out due to it's lack of rider gears, and there is already a geared version, the Silverado being effectively almost the same bike/motor/battery. No one at the bike shopcan enlighten me as to weather the silverado can take a the bigger battery of the blackstar,do you think the...
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    what electric bikes have you ridden at all

    PS Iv'e got a Agattu AGATTU.. bought with the advise and help of this forum, where else can yoyu go for real advice. "Free advice is worth what you pay for it" sooo untrue Although maybe you pay back by trying to add to the knowledge base of the forum..(BUY AGATTU)
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    what electric bikes have you ridden at all

    fwiw I think threads like this often illustrate aspects of biking that won't be discussed any other way, and help clarify what we want..peer acknowledgement is important in our society, and electric bikers don't have too many peers. If any salesman makes me feel "two foot small", I usually...
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    GreenEdge or Dahon folders, anyone?

    sorry still dont get it all I quote from the spec; Start mode Zero start 0 assistance to power; thats the Black star with no gears " start Mode Non zero start, 1:1 assistance power. That's the silverado bike with 6 gears. BTWay Foned bike shop who were "just about to phone you...
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    GreenEdge or Dahon folders, anyone?

    I think I am having the same problem, I have the Agattu, but even with the improvement with my biking (have just clocked up 250 miles since 19may, not a lot but more than in the last three years) The terrain where I live will only let me do 30Km(18 miles) at average 0f about 12mph I am looking...
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    wanted very cheap good condition brompton

    even when you spend £1325 on an agatta you don't get it:( :(
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    Windsor LPX or Greenedge Silverdo

    Help here Wanted to finalise the Jenny bike purchase Monday, found synergy is now selling with too big a frame, forced to go step thro because of Js hip problem.......Urged to buy Greenage Blackstar, found it had only one gear, looked at Greenedge Silverdo, nice spec but folder...I dont care...
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    Pro-Connect ordered?

    If any help, I bought the step through, because it was in stock, and I did'nt want to wait, After a small period of hating the thing, I am now used to it,and love it. As reported no flex at all when trying to power up hill, easy-ryder style grows on you, still have a tendancy to dismount (get...
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    Powacyle Salisbury LPX or Halfords Carrera Sparc

    Thanks rooel, have checked J's old bike, the measurement is under 40cms, we tried the bike out but due to advancing hip problem, and not biking for 8 months found it uncomfortable to say the least. Am glad I was'nt landed with a 45 cm frame this would really have caused problems I think
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    Just what do I want from an electric cycle?

    help Done my reading (see past posts) bought an Agutti thanks mostly to Flecc magic review, and it works, did the same work for Jen decided on a mistral but at last moment found frame size too big. J is about 5'3" and like me 70, enjoys cycling but a bit more susceptable to fatigue, thats why...
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    Pro-Connect ordered?

    Just read this lot, I will put in a word for the 50s boys,asked "got a bike" they said "yeh" ordered the Agutta on a thursday, had to wait till wednesday before delivery(i think).done about 200 miles so far..
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    Powacyle Salisbury LPX or Halfords Carrera Sparc

    wot am I missing here, is peak power a sort of holy grail, according to my early physics 33 amp from a 10ah battery is 18 mins (theoritical) at legal 15 mph, thats 4.5 miles up some hill (needing peak power), or is to cycle to the top of an ivory tower.
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    Forza vs Agattu

    Came a bit late to this thread, bin too buisy cycling, As I sit in a gateway looking at the sea, drinkin a bottle of Speckled Hen (£1.50 on offer) , ((which is why my pence per mile is probably higher than most of you)). I glimpses out of th; corner of me eye The Agattu leaning on it's...
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    Powacyle Salisbury LPX or Halfords Carrera Sparc

    HELP HELP Was just about to order Mistral... When eddie from bikes emailed me that smallest frame was equal to a 19" present cycle for mate is 16" frame What is actual distance from ground to cross bar of the Mistral PLEASE
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    Powacyle Salisbury LPX or Halfords Carrera Sparc

    Am desperate to get bike fro partner, just read this post and flicked to Alien..noticed voltage was 24v Sinergie Mistral is 36v at 10A thats surely 120 watts more available.
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    Oh Asterisk! Agattu! Agutta!

    bought the bike waiting for the sub:eek:
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    Which make of electric bike do you own?

    Kalcoff agattu owner 70 years old (me not the bike) bought after reading most of this forum... read a post by flecc seemed to fit wot I wanted..live in Cornwall where most of the hills I missed when I was young seem to be located..most magical machine (for me) I have upped my game in the...
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    Synergie G2 Mistral.. a good budget e-bike?

    Honeymoons are great, got together with Jen in 1985 still doing ours. I have just bought an Agattu, First 150 miles , and I love it, I cycle as agressively as I can (pedaling wise) as one reason I bought it was to start cycling again, at 70 I find Cornwall coast too much of a challenge...