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Mountain bikes - particularly downhillers - have wide bars for steering leverage. Fashion comes into it - seems to me bars have become wider in recent years. The shop chopped about an inch off either end of the bars on my Cannondale. It's something they do quite regularly for customers. I...

There's a carbon framed Ghost hardtail which is also about 17kg. I've not seen anything lighter, so I reckon you have answered your question yourself. http://www.mhw-bike.com/ghost-teru-10-lc-black-lightpetrol-green-white-2015-2768

Nice bike, you won't go wrong with that. I take it the shop knows your bike is in stock at the wholesaler. Some shops take orders which can take months to fill. Now you've decided, you want the bike fairly quickly to take advantage of the better weather and longer days.

And to add to all the above problems, the forks are for 26" wheels. Who use those nowadays? They are not just so last year, they are so the year before, and the year before that.

Seems Rose ebikes are listed on their German website: http://www.rosebikes.de/produkte/fahrraeder/e-bikes/ But not on their UK site: http://www.rosebikes.co.uk/products/bikes/e-bikes/

I don't know what they are charging for the Oxygen this week, but this Ghost is similar spec to the Cube for a very reasonable £1,450. http://www.mhw-bike.com/ghost-teru-4-white-cyan-green-black-2015-2812

Better there than in the kitchen.

I spotted some scrape marks on one of my Bosch batteries but can't work out how they happened. Happily, the integrity of the case has not been affected, so I'm just curious. The marks must have happened yesterday on a 100 mile train assisted ride I did from Berwick to Newcastle. Nothing...

Evening Jim, You are one of the few - an unhappy Rose customer. I've been more fortunate, the bike has never had to go back and it's three years old now, so probably never will have to. I still find it odd Rose no longer produce ebikes - they make every other type of bike.

The space behind the engine can only be accessed by the staff. Unlikely one of them is going to steal your bike, so the only other risk would be another cyclist taking your bike instead of his. Again not very likely, but I bet your insurance wouldn't pay because the bike was left unlocked...

I'm sure you will be pleased with the bikes. Too easy for the ignorant to dismiss a quality 20" wheel ebike as a 'shopper'. They are a lot more capable than that, and will provide an excellent ride for as along as the battery lasts.

I've taken my Rose bike on three trains recently. It's a 29er trekking bike and weighs a fair bit with a spare battery in the pannier. On long distance trains it goes in the 'guard's van' - a luggage compartment near the engine. Operators vary, but my policy is arrive in good time and...

Something rings a bell about being able to send a battery if it's part of a complete bike. My Rose was air freighted by DHL.

Reading some posts on here you would think the OP had shot Bambi. She merely forced a company with a mixed record on service to honour its own guarantee. If she has also made 50 Cycles make its terms and conditions less ambivalent, she done them - and prospective customers - a favour.

What you don't grasp is her understanding of the advert is irrelevant. The judge is this case is the ASA. As soon as that went against 50 Cycles, they were badly on the back foot.

The ASA ruled the advertisement by 50 Cycles to be misleading. That is what I take at face value. Seems odd to me that you as a consumer should support the publishing of dodgy adverts, but you are, of course, entitled to your view.

...and the wait continues for the factory e-Brompton.

The lesson is don't publish misleading advertisements - unless you are prepared to refund customers who respond to them. The OP has not taken the wotsit, she has out-manoeuvred the retailer. Given that 50 Cycles has vast experience in cycle retailing and the OP very likely has only ever bought...

Bosch appear to be accurate with their figures, so the CX5 will have a lot of grunt. The extra - and all but instant - torque of Croxden's Performance Line Haibike kept me upright once when I think it would have been foot down time on one of my standard Bosch motor bikes. Rare for me to be in...

Service from 50 Cycles has been hit and miss, according to reports on here. They published an advertisement deemed to be misleading by the body tasked with judging such things. The OP has done all prospective customers a favour by teaching 50 Cycles a lesson.