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This weekend I was chatting to some of my younger friends, one of whom had seen me on my ebike whilst driving a van in town. I do use panniers and my saddle position is such I sit directly over the battery so this hides the motor and battery a bit, but he hadn't noticed anything "odd" about the...

although not comparable in magnitude, I am noticing an increasing number of e-bikes this side of the North Sea as well... certainly more than those in London/SE England are seeing - a mixture of ready built ones and DIY conversions..

exactly. they have passed the hot potato of customer support back to Urban Mover, who I remember were pulled up on this aspect several times on this forum. I do accept that the company may have improved and Halfords hopefully has assisted them with sufficient investment to beef up their...

I'lll have to dig up the link of a video I found but apparently one of the main e-bike manufacturers actually arranged meetings and argued the case for e-bikes (on safety and environmental grounds) in front of various Council leaders, and this ban appears to have since been rescinded in many of...

well UTN (their parent company) has just released figures and reported a large rise in sales of their electric bikes - this was long before the Infineum (which unfortunately still appears to have teething problems) became "available"..

Just done a bit of googling and the Salisbury is being sold by a fair few dealers at a considerable discount, bringing it back below the £600 mark.. Even though I paid slightly more for mine this is good to see as it must indicate that sales volumes are healthy enough for the dealers to do...

Thanks Steven... Are there many repair shops? In each town of England there is usually at least one shop for repairing conventional bicycles, but if you take your e-bike into the normal bicycle shop many mechanics say "oh no, we do not know how to work on it"... do Chinese repair shops work...

I would definitely be interested in this.. especially as I would like to visit China one day, my ancestors on my Dad's side are from South China (although he was born in and grew up in Malaya...) I keep meaning to try and learn at least some basic Chinese as well (even got a picture of a...

I'm curious to know what the score is like in China for e-bike repairs/spares/service, as the machines are popular there... has it got to the stage where people can just go into their bike shop and buy stuff like motors / controllers / batteries and the like same as we would get stuff like...

what are HMRC like about duty etc when you buy these things?

I purchased one of those LCD devices that monitors electric power consumption, and have been using it to monitor the charging of my Powacycle Salisbury battery. One reason was to show some environmentally concious friends just how little electric is used by ebikes (about 63W when charging) -...

how much current does a tom tom use? maybe thinking laterally, building a small 12V battery pack independent of the bike battery may be a better idea? depending on current rating, maybe this could also be used for lights in winter or after dark... I use a "hand held" GPS on my bike which uses...

I've always keep a Topeak Turbo Morph in my pannier bags and would recommend it. I think there are two models, the cheaper one doesn't have the pressure gauge.. also got a track pump at home, my other bike is a hybrid and has 700c wheels and tyres usually pumped to 6.5-7 bar.. (95-100psi)

I saw an X series (not sure if it was 6 or 24) parked on the bike racks in Ipswich in April. By a strange co-incidence it was when I was on my normal unpowered bike which is a Raleigh Pioneer - apparently the X series is based on this. As mine was parked right next to the Powabye I looked at...

I get the impression the article is actually lumping together up e-bikes (as we in Britain and other more regulated nations would define them) and e-mopeds, and that through sheer volume of traffic the cops in China are unable to stop people with more powerful machines which are basically...

what are you using to design/fabricate the PCBs? Last time I did anything like this it was etch resist pen and Letraset!! I assume its some sort of computer software and UV resist kit. Is this stuff horrendously expensive, or now relatively affordable? I've been meaning to get back into...

the impression I've got from monitoring laws in other nations is that e-bikes only "got noticed" in a bad way when people rode in stupid ways on high speed converted bikes and others (pedestrians/other cyclists) got knocked down. Then the traffic authorities start asking questions and setting...

it would be extremely difficult if not impossible to justify raising VED on electric vehicles. The whole justification given in modern times for extra taxes on vehicles with internal combustion engines and fuel is that they give rise to extra environmental pollution - which electric vehicles do...

its done simply on post count (I think its 50 and 100 posts) and this happens on loads of forums its a built in feature of the software.

what exactly is a "carbon alloy" frame? I've heard of carbon fibre frames and of course alloy ones but not the two combined...