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there's still the argument IMO that Britain's road infrastructure clearly lags behind that of other EU nations and thus creates situations that make the use of a throttle safer... I worked in the Civil Service for a few years and there have been many occasions where Britain has adopted part of...

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our local free paper is carrying a front page ad for Flynnstar Bicycles of Felixstowe, and offering 10% off new bikes if the ad is cut out and taken to the shop. they also mention prominently they sell electric bikes, on further investigation it appears they are a Powabyke dealer... Good to see...

IMO its only in the last 2 years or so that a number of factors have combined to make e-bikes attractive to younger people (3 years ago I was myself sceptical about them and thought "no, they are for the old folk!") I would say they are.. appearance of "MTB-style" models from Ezee, Wisper...

I appreciate its a sensitive issue for the older generation, but I wonder if the unfortunate reason for this is they may be more recent riders (perhaps starting in middle age) and have had pre-existing health problems and since been admitted to residential care, whereas someone riding an...

IMO what would have been much better was for the shop to complete the repair in a timely manner and with the problems solved, thus removing the need for him to go public with the problems. The response of the dealer is admirable, but I can't help but wonder that if people didn't shout on public...

how many batteries did he take? I presume he stopped at hotels and charged up every so often? Shame it didn't make the local media here.. BTW Lowestoft is not in Norfolk (as some press releases are erroneously stating). The river Waveney flows into the Broads and is the border between Suffolk...

Got mine from the LBS (as I had noticed the covers on the Kenda ones fail in the morning at work and didn't want to risk riding home with dodgy tyres!) and one wasn't folded but slightly "squashed/misshapen". Didn't seem to affect it at all, and nor have I found them that hard to remove or put...

I think the 50 cycles chaps are in their early 30s, a few years younger than myself. Dick Lai of Wisper is also in his 20s.. its actually quite encouraging that the people who have entrusted their livelihoods to selling e-bikes are younger than many of those riding them :D

some people must have voted but are shy about their age (we had the same on a electronic dance music forum I help run where participation in this scene is as you would expect skewed towards the younger end of age groups..)

are current 905's cadence sensitive? I though they just sensed when you were pedalling... the £850 bike will easily be popular with "younger" folk, as many would find £1300 a bit steep but especially as the cost of motoring spirals £850 might not seem too much... A powacycle Salisbury has gone...

the same applies to Suffolk (but again there are a lot of cyclists here, and fast motor traffic is filtered onto the A12/A14 where it creates less of a hazard).

there are "portable" 400V gensets too (though you wouldn't be shifting them single handed) - actually I checked the SELV regulations and its 120V DC which is the max so there may be a separate rule for outdoor/portable equipment. (120V DC is (or was) used on some telecoms circuits (particularly...

I've noticed this with women, always younger single ones, not granny ladies nor mums - and I am a very right-on non-sexist type of person... but in this area its more a look of annoyance than a blast of the horn or anything like that.. I get the impression they see being "held up" by a male...

exactly. the e-biking "youth" are still mostly in their mid to late 30s (like myself) with a small few in their late 20s like monster. At present the market leaders remain companies like Powabyke which until the introduction of the x-series was clearly aimed at (and popular with) the older...

so the bikes cross the border from Taiwan into mainland South China and are inspected there? in the 1990s I remember a 25% failure rate being viewed as normal in the IT / electronics industry. This has improved a bit since then (and yet the kit is still made in South China) so maybe there is...

will this mean that longer lasting/more powerful batteries will be made to fit into the standard Wisper box so existing 905 owners will get the benefit of any advance in battery technology?

I'm only 37 and also in good health too, but whilst there are a few younger folk on here and more so than whenever this forum started I don't think its a wild assumption at all. The bulk of the regular contributors on here are mostly old enough to be our uncles/aunts, if not our parents or even...

this might help French Bicycles by Sheldon Brown

are you going to be offering alloy frames on all new models? I remember reading here one of the new models was carbon fibre and I know there's a trend towards carbon fibre but I've seen some real horror stories about the stuff on the racers' blogs (complete with pictures of peoples bike frames...