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Nice idea but I don't want to have to stick a numberplate on the back of my bike or pay for additional tax and insurance. And I can't afford to lose my job and quite possibly my house if I ever got caught!

That sums up my anxiety nicely - and there aren't the hours in a day for me to try to figure out which year a bike was made or which firmware version the motor has, especially as every most ebike sales appear to be online and bricks and mortar stores have very few bikes in stock that can be sat...

I think if converting from derailleur to hub gears you would need to retain the hockey wheels or fit a new spring chain tensioner wouldn't you? Otherwise you would need a frame with horizontal dropouts. The main drawback (for me) of vertical dropouts and hub gear would be that a coaster brake...

Exactly. I don't want an illegal modded ebike. I want one with minimal to zero "treacling" at 16mph if it's possible. It sounds like the Bosch Active Plus would be acceptable to me; I wondered what other bikes also had no discernable added resistance at 16mph. I won't be cycling above 15mph on...

Just curious having tried a few different motors recently. I tried a bike with an Active Line motor, specification and price to die for but just couldn't get past the annoyance that above 15mph/25kph the bike switched instantaneously from feeling like I had bionic legs to feeling like I was...

If you want to cycle out of a shop on a new ebike for under £1500 then it won't be doable in your budget without some spannering. The cheapest Nexus-geared bike with a crossbar that I've seen is this Corratec on a 46% off promotion at £1399 but it has a chain (and coaster brake which I love but...

What a lovely looking machine especially in black, well done on such a design. Pleased at how many people are asking if there's a hub gear version - so much more robust and IMHO nice to ride on. Can one be fitted to the existing frame or would it require redesigning the dropouts? Back in the...

Thanks that's quite reasssuring, especially learning that the torque sensor knows when I'm going slowly due to struggling up a hill. Is there any risk of damaging the motor on the way down a long hill by freewheeling at 30+mph thanks to gravity - does it cause the motor to start acting like a...

Cheers all. The worst hill I have to get up on my commute is Portway Hill which looks like this: [link to photo] and is a climb of 1:10 for just under half a mile. For gradient check out the jumps in height on the brick wall on the left. Any idea how a XF07 would feel on that (assuming that...

Thanks - sounds like the downtube is the way to go for the battery and cradle, but I will have to fit a couple of rivnuts as the ones that are brazed on for a bottle cage are 155 and 220mm from the bottom. Just hope they wont get in the way of the battery cradle! My front fork dropouts are 3 or...

Thanks - is putting the rear rack battery into panniers (ie use my existing rack, carry the barry and controller around in the pannier and plug the cables in when I need some epower) a remotely feasible option? Or does the thing the battery clips into not suitable for carrying in the pannier as...

Hi, thanks to what I've read on these fora and after trying out examples on display at the NEC recently I'm looking to convert my touring/city bike (a Dawes steel frame with Nexus rear wheel hub gears) to electric. I have a 30 mile round commute which is quite hilly in parts so looking for high...

Thanks for the tips, will check out myself. Honestly, what's up with decent bike shops in Birmingham? Live there myself and so far four shops I've asked at have refused to consider converting my pushbike which I am hoping to get Whooshed. Anything from "we only deal with bikes, ebikes aren't...

Thanks but I can't find any bikes on the link you sent that have hub gears. I am not looking for a bike with a derailleur.

I'm fed up with the traffic and looking to switch to cycling. My commute is around 14 miles each way involving a number of hills and an overall climb of 700 feet. I might need to pop in and out the office for half a dozen miles then another 14 miles home. Total therefore is around 30-35 miles a...