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Hah! :D No, but I've seen enough videos of Chinese manufacturing techniques and facilities to do me, thank you. (And besides, it would only be racist if my problem was with Chinese people, which it is not. It might well be something else-ist, but it's not racist :)) Actually, talking of...

Sorry, I should have made it clear that I was referring to Chinese direct suppliers - not Chinese contractors or sub-contractors to Japanese, Taiwanese or Western firms. If it transpires that the motor in my Agattu is made in China, that's fine by me because presumably it'll be made to Derby...

I would have said exactly the same thing a year ago, purely from the engineering point of view. I'd never ridden any other type of frame. Then we got a Workcycles FR8, and I rode it home one day downhill at a fair old rate on a potholed road, with 24Kg in the front carrier, over 10Kg in one of...

26" 'cos we loved the fairly fat Vredestein Moirée tyres we had on our Workcycles FR8, and disc brakes 'cos we didn't like the lack of feel with the Shimano hub brakes on the same bike! Having said that, I'm well impressed with the Magura hydraulic brakes on our Agattus (except for the fact...

Same as NRG but to include the charger, and we'd expect the seller to organise collection for RTB.

FWIW we would not buy a bike with a Chinese frame, motor or battery.

8 hub gears. Because that's what our Kalkhoffs have and in our neck of the woods, it's ideal for us. We have 21-speed Deore on our Thorn Sherpas, but we wouldn't want derailleurs on our pedelcs.

A well thought-out aluminium step-through frame with sit-up riding position in a good range of sizes and with a conservative finish, pedelec, crank motor, 250w (or whatever the legal max is), display combining battery state and power setting with a basic cycle computer, nurse's lock, "ergo"...

Oh, top man! That's got to be worth a try. Thank you :)

Here's one more vote for the Mirrycle, but we're also big fans of the Zéfal Doobak for "straight" MTB-style bars Dan

Yesterday was the first day that The Lady Wife and I got to ride our new Agattus on wet/muddy roads, and we are not impressed with the front mudguards on these bikes. They are way too short. I've just been faffing about with bits of rubber sheet and so forth, but I'm getting nowhere because...

Sarah Just wanted to say "hi" from myself and The Lady Wife are not a million miles away from you and who've just done what you did, except we bought two of them! Ref your bad luck with the propstand, it sounds an awful lot like somebody didn't tighten the adjustment screw properly. And I...

In which case you'd better watch out for my mother-in-law on her mobility scooter! Please add The Lady Wife and me in TN6.

Thanks for that link flecc. I'd missed that bit on Mr Hembrow's blog, and he does put forward a very convincing argument.

Strict liability would be a big help, but alas that's never going to happen in England.

And it looks like today's prize goes to shemozzle for what certainly seems to be the most likely answer! It might well have been used for that, flecc, but this one's on my 53cm 2011/12 Agattu step-through...

Good grief! And I suppose some CAD program or other reckoned that was sound engineering. Whatever, the forks are on a brand new Agattu and it definitely says CR-V8 on them, just like it does on my wife's Agattu, which is also brand new. However, they are completely different forks! Mine...

Which I tried and got nowhere. It's no big deal, but it's scrolling my nerd that one leg has a + and - preload adjuster on top of it and the other doesn't. I can't for the life of me think how that's supposed to work!

James, thank you ever so for that, but either the manual doesn't tell me or it does but I can't see the wood for the trees ... :(

Quite right. Keep the buggers in their place, that's what I say ...