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Very true. You need to use the bike regularly for at least a year before a meaningful assessment can be made. A quick taz around a showground isn't going to tell you very much at all. You might determine that bike A goes up a hill at 14 mph whereas bike B will only climb it at 12 mph. Not really...

The problems have come hand in hand with more powerful motors. Bicycles and their components are well engineered (Shimano etc), but ultimately they are purposely flimsy and light weight. They don't need to be beefy because in all but the small Ebike market, the power that they transmit comes...

Last week, I went out on a 50+ mile ride. I was on my 24 Volt 7 year old Panasonic crank driven Kalkhoff, my friend was riding a Kalkhoff Pro Connect 11 speed with Impulse 2 motor. The bike is less than a year old. I've also ridden this bike. The main difference between the two is that the...

Just watching the last ever Top Gear episode. Fantastic. What have the BBC done? When will they realise that people aren't interested in their political agenda.

There definitely is a technique to riding the early Panasonics. The motor cuts out on pedal cadence, not road speed. You can therefore be riding quite slowly up hill and find that the motor cuts out if you rotate the pedals too fast. Also, if your cadence drops below a certain level the motor...

I really don't understand why you couldn't get up certain hills on a Panasonic bike. My bike feels like it would climb anything and no hill has ever defeated me or the bike. And believe me, it has climbed some long and very steep hills. I'm quite light now (78Kg) but whilst I have owned this...

I agree with your thoughts. There wasn't a lot wrong with the older Panasonic driven Kalkhoffs. They are powerful, look good, retain their appearance thanks to tough build and paint standards, and the drive train being 1/8 is cheap to maintain and virtually indestructible too. In some ways...

I think she would have been expecting you to move towards the centre of the road so that she could keep tight in to her right hand side. If there is any doubt, you should stop.

It definitely does work. I guy that I work with has set up a couple of hives on the airfield and gives the honey to the hay fever sufferers who work there. It doesn't completely cure them, but does reduces the symptoms dramatically.

Isn't there a third way? Efficiency. If a motor is running at its optimum efficiency, which it is more likely to be doing if driving the wheel through a set of gears, then the energy stored in the battery will be used more efficiently, hence greater range. A hub motor, of which most are stuck in...

I can't make my mind up now. Should it be Kalkhoffs'? Because it's the range of more than one Kalkhoff bike which is being discussed. Either way, 80 miles, which was the original point is a long way. I hate this sort of thing on Internet forums, they always end up going off at a tangent and...