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to be fair I think the Cytronex was always aimed at a niche market, although I would have considered one were I still living in Reading and riding much shorter distances. If you want the long range, then get a Wisper with 14Ah batteries. I didn't realise until recently that the Dawes Super...

I help run a very popular "youth lifestyle forum" for the electronic dance music scene, you get everyone from their teens to their mid 40s and early 50s on there, and a lot of the younger teenagers although not obvious "hippies" are increasingly environmentally aware and not only enjoy riding...

I was really careful after reading about this, as I reckon we both ride in the same sort of areas. indeed, my nose told me that someone is carelessly spilling diesel across the roads of Ipswich / Mid Suffolk. Thankfully I have had no mishaps, but this annoys me on two counts - not just the risk...

I work as a finance and technology manager for a group of nursing homes for the elderly and all hoists/chair lifts still use SLA batteries, as do wheelchairs, mobility vehicles and the like. They are tried, tested and reliable technology and weight isn't as much of an issue nor is speed. That...

Interestingly, people are equally amused to see a 5 foot 5 Oriental chap flying down the streets of Ipswich and Mid Suffolk on a Wisper at 17mph (which is fast for a cyclist here...) Apparently in some circles I'm not supposed to call myself "Oriental" unless I am a cat, but I do give a long...

Been wondering about this for a while.. I think there are a fair few people around like myself - men aged 25-45, not quite teenagers but still "young at heart" - either single or with a young family - in a professional career with a reasonable income, but for whom either the cost or...

however people are bending the rules, Makro is a wholesaler, it is not directly comparable to Tesco's. I think the C5 RRP was always £399, and it was the Electricity Board shops rather than Metro which sold them... I agree but at the same time the specialist shops have to deliver that level...

Makro's website does claim that they are trade only, and every person I know who has had a Makro card has got it through some sort of business connection. If they are not complying to this perhaps dealers can launch some sort of legal action against them, or expose them in the Press...

Makro is ostensibly a wholesaler (I'm not sure how much this is enforced) and people would have to go to some effort to prove they are a business.. its not that much of a discount on what some Powacycle online dealers are selling the machine for anyway, and TBH I've not heard of many people...

YouTube - Tour de France 2007 - Burghardt hits a dog (both escaped serious injury...)

well you have communicated here in English here far better than I could ever do so in Danish (despite having a couple of Danish friends and also having done some tech work for DR, TDC and similar organisations!) actually the people in Scotland also speak their own language called Scots which is...

if you or friends are reasonably computer-literate, it is fairly easy to get cheap VOIP calls which cost only €0.02 per minute across Europe.. either you talk through the microphone and speaker on your PC, or you can buy telephone adaptors - often calls are cheaper within your country as well...

Met Office: Weather and climate change contains a lot of much more useful weather observations/forecasts than the mainstream media. (the reason the broadcast forecasts are inaccurate is that cost-cutting means they are not updated as regularly as they should be). comparing the last few hours...

Schematics are closely guarded intellectual property, but the controller specifications are on the Salisbury's controller. Only problem is that they are written in Chinese ;) Using a "chinglish" translator my mum got me from Malaysia (her native country and where she now lives most of the...

apparently they are out of stock (are are the bikes!) and should be due in any time now....

although flecc has explained things better as well, I would also like to say I was far from offended by your comments. I come from an engineering background myself and if anything I have a lot of respect for those folks who are able to build their own e-bike, and even more for people like...

it was a nasty problem with QR wheels on disk brakes, caused a young man in SE England to crash his MTB a few years back and sadly he was permanently disabled..

E-bikes at both price points already exist today, here in Great Britain, not some far away foreign nation. (Even across the North Sea, a few extra euros seem to get added on to the price!) you can get a Synergie Mistral or Powacycle Salisbury or a Wisper, all of them are good e-bikes. Even...

I think a lot depends on region. I moved from the region where FatMog lived to East Anglia. when I lived in Reading I used to regularly ride on an unpowered push bike to West BErkshire, Maidenhead and even on occasions West London, but some bits of the journey were hairy to say the least. Here...

I think the attitude definitely depends on the LBS. in most towns you will have a number, one of them all the lycras go to, the other the kids who like BMX, another for the utility cyclists and older folks. Out of 5 in Ipswich I found only one who would service or sell e-bikes, and they were...