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I've had my Wisper since September 2009, and done over 4000 miles on it. I usually ride 13-15 miles every day and charge each night. Normally there are two lights left on the battery LED and the handlebars show amber by the end of the night (which seems OK) - but recently I just get one LED on...

My Transition group wants to use cargo bikes or bikes pulling trailer to deliver local produce. Now Ipswich actually has a fair few hills contrary to the stereotype of East Anglia, so they agreed that e-bikes could be worth investigating. As well as ready made bikes, what are good and...

TBH I think eddieo was particularly unlucky, he ended up in a foreign country right at the time of the changeover, and one which didn't even have a local Wisper dealer, in DE it would be very hard to compete with the local bikes/e-bikes (they do have a dealer in NL/BE but this might be a new...

I agree that personal attacks are unwarranted (although being younger everything I've seen here is mild stuff compared to some other forums I am on!) but at the same time I don't believe in burying bad news. The OP did ask about reliability - and I would wholly expect an old retired accountant...

I only recently dealt with cyclemech (as the Wisper is otherwise fairly reliable) and Steve sorted out getting a load of spares for me before they went on holiday. The spares arrived (delivered to my work address) on Xmas Eve, along with a parcel of mobile telephones - nothing to do with...

Unless the bikes are sold across the EU and UK dealers are willing to work together to solve problems for users outside their home country I think every e-biker could face this problem if they venture outside their normal country and get a breakdown that is not one of the traditional push bike...

quite possibly, though the one I saw looked bigger with full size wheels although the distance between myself and the chap on the trike may have made this harder to judge... however if its an Ezee another chap from the Transition group rides the 20" folder and is happy with it and there's...

I don't think it was, it was one of the older ones, somewhat battle-scarred. Another friend in the area who works in IT told me about and was asking me where to get "lead acid batteries like in a UPS" so I don't think its that one. (I suggested they tried that place up by PEterborough a few...

Saw another 3 e-bikes on the road today... well actually one was a trike. It had a sizeable wire basket affixed to it. You could easily get a weeks worth of groceries, or a fair bit of DIY stuff, or a couple of medium sized dogs into the basket. There was a also a Giant and another generic...

things like the old style Critical Mass or Reclaim the Streets (or the current students protests) much more confrontational against the authorities and attract these types.. What you propose is more like a trade / sales demonstration (which unfortunately would mean the Council would most...

I thought the poster on the blog was making much the same point as Mussels.. TBH there isn't much justification for CM in London today, where it genuinely seems to be much easier to cycle than ever before - I've heard this comment from people up here who commute to London and who would normally...

in my town more and more young folk are riding hybrids, bikes with mudguards and racks and other "uncool" things, and I've seen people on e-bikes both old and young..... TBH what puts people off e-bikes isn't even price but the current lack of dealers and servicing backup here (Cambridge is many...

In the current climate the economics are as good as they get - This article although its a bit old, shows a test of a number of e-bikes by a Dutch consumer magazine. The costs were €1000-€2700 - not at all dissimilar to what we pay for e-bikes, in fact a bit higher than the price of some...

even if its a niche market its still ruthlessly competitive.. I went to SPARTA - Spezialist für spezielle Fahrräder out of curiosity - the site automatically detected I was in the UK, and offered me a list of British dealers. Last time I went on there (just a few months ago) the site was in...

I remember folk posting stuff about these e-bikes - they seemed to be a similar specification and quality to the Powacycle Salisbury or Cyclamatic available in the UK. I don't even think we're that badly off TBH - once you've converted from the Euro to GBP, ebikes here cost much the same as in...

by and large they achieve this here... for instance despite being a young Asian lad riding a fast e-bike with panniers at all hours of the day and night, I'm not subjected to unwanted attention from the Police (I suspect though they can see me on CCTV for much of my journey and know that its...

Its not just "Sleepy Suffolk" - a lot of the drugs taken in the area come in via drivers coming from London and are brought into the rural villages this way, using cars and people which go against popular stereotypes of what a drug trafficker "should" look like. Or the other way round - a...

in reality these incidents are rare compared to the amount of air weapons in circulation, and cops do not sit on their backsides - its just that many folk to shy away from bad news and don't read the crime stories all the way through "from report to Court" - and don't notice things such as armed...

At work the entire bike (panniers, battery and all) is kept in the office :D Elsewhere, I usually take all these easily nickable things off, put them inside the pannier and take the pannier into wherever I'm going with me. if it is one of the real ale pubs, no one bats an eyelid as lots of...

The shorter video is an advert for Conrad Electronics which is the German equivalent of CPC although it has proper shops in DE, and the Benelux nations. There are many other amusing ads for them on youtube, drawing upon modern stereotypes of Germans as "mad scientist/über-geek" types :D...