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A chap working for the bank my employers use (who also works in MK) mentioned seeing an ebike in that area. He thought they were a good idea!

you'd have to go clubbing in Sudbury for that, but most of that area is actually in Suffolk rather than Essex... :D

and that only because traffic levels mean people are crashing into one another and getting hurt (usually its a fast ebike crashing into unpowered cyclists :eek:) The Chinese adopted a surprisingly laissez-faire attitude to ebikes, even more controlling nations like Singapore did until the...

its the same sort of anomaly you get in Britain as to how it was (and to an extent still is) perfectly legal to buy packages of white powder containing powerful stimulant drugs for "research purposes", but its illegal to take them to get high! Of course this law is widely disregarded but...

Isn't the pro connect S the really fast one you should only be riding off road with UK traffic laws? If Mike is a teacher in Britain (I appreciate he could be in another more tolerant nation) I expect getting busted for a illegal e-bike is a career limiting move (especially as it would be...

fair play to reaching out overseas (I'd obviously like to see more e-bikers here from SE Asia for instance!) but zoom in to the map of the UK and you will see how some regions have far more ebikers than others...

I agree, but the issues I've encountered with ebikes and also seen related on here relate more to quality issues of specialist components (pedelec sensors, brake levers with switches, throttles etc) than the traditional bike components themselves. Usually the only solution is swapping the...

exactly what people were doing with the Sun computers! they glutted the market due to loads of failed businesses/and overambitious corporate IT projects in the late 90s/early 2000s.. nearly bought a few myself, compared to their original costs they were a bargain - but despite being an...

no, but Sun (which was once a company in its own right) is mounting these aggressive campaigns because it lost a load of market share due to focusing on technology rather than business/finance during a recession (the one we had 10 years ago), which dropped their customer service and led to a...

I think age makes a difference as well. Frankie Xu is as Chinese as Wai Won Ching and both are more so than myself (as I am part Indian as well and born in SE London :D) but if you look at Frankie's comments he takes a much more conciliatory tone with readers (and potential customers!). I...

"harmless" until we get "disallowed" EU funding for new transport projects (after they've taken the taxes!) - or worse, middle aged English tourists find themselves being hauled up by traffic cops with pistols and being made to surrender their e-bikes as they are "illegal vehicles". Other...

not sure (and I've owned a lot of unpowered bikes too) if I'd even class it as as much of a disadvantage such particularly on an ebike (other than I suppose not being able to use hub gears) in the context of the Ezee vs Wisper argument Mr Ching was berating Wisper for using Tourney shifters -...

a more powerful controlller allows more electricity from the battery to go to the motor. However this will either run down the battery quicker or risk burning out the motor coils if it was too powerful - so there is a tradeoff with each rise in power.

I can forgive Mr Ching as he reminds me a lot of my late father in the way he expresses himself and defends his products/opinions, right down to the point of lapsing into a slightly more Chinese form of English when he is passionately defending his opinions! This is hardly surprising, as Ken is...

Ebikes direct is where I got my Wisper from - there are no nearby dealers in Ipswich - I don't own a car and Cambridge takes just as long to get to as London! They are a good online dealer - I haven't had much contact with them since the initial purchase but thats because Wisper's staff have...

price fixing is a criminal offence in this country (and the EU) and even "free market" competitors think nothing of blowing the whistle to "nanny state" regulators if they think their rivals are up to stuff like this..

I've heard Mr Ping is very good customer service wise and will probably replace the charger quickly - although unfortunately I expect there will be a longer delivery time than something readily available in the UK (unless there are places which sell these here?)

switch mode PSU's (which is what these chargers essentially are) can often fail quite spectacularly - if there aren't sufficient fuses, smoke and fire are not uncommon :eek:. I'd get the thing exchanged. Its not worth your effort or your own safety trying to repair it. unfortunately there can...

Frankie Xu who runs the company is a young Chinese lad who I think lives in the North but was educated in London. He had an honest discussion with many folk on here and came across as very knowledgeable not just about ebikes and batteries but the differences in the market between the UK and...

there's a cable coming out of the hub, which needs to be disconnected from the controller and subsequently reconnected and any tools to remove freewheels and the like need to be able to fit over the 12mm(?) spindle. However on many motors this cable terminates in a large multiway plug which...