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I own a Salisbury and have recently ridden 26 miles on a couple of occasions between Ipswich and the Mid Suffolk/South Norfolk border, with some sizeable hills enroute. I will need to do the maths later to get more precise gradients of the hills (last time I tried I mixed my units and got into...

interesting review - although I think with 50cycles currently being single suppliers of this machine that the consumer experience should be part of it as you can't exactly "shop around" as yet... that said it all came across as a fair and honest assesment of the bike.. Are both the working...

I think its an EU reg applying to all electrical equipment, not just bikes - 48 volts is a normal safety limit on any piece of electrical equipment (Safe Extra Low Voltage) above which more safety testing / insulation is required. 48V kit is very common in telecoms...

I do think its "getting there" but I think one very important factor with ebikes (which I also mentioned in another thread) is that the bulk of the market (and therefore investment) is concentrated amongst affluent areas of South China Here the weather is warm/tropical - and SLA batteries from...

it looks like the preliminary bit where the manufacturers were touting their wares to the heddlu - with Wisper being the obvious winner. Perhaps the green buttons on NWP bikes fire the taser :D Thames Valley (the force in my old area) seemed to always have cycling officers right through from...

I ride to work every day (7 miles each way, so 14 miles total) and also to friends living at the county border around Diss - was doing this on my normal bike (albeit slightly slower) I was impressed that the Powacycle Salisbury handled 26 miles into headwinds and two large hills and still had...

looks like North Wales Police again. I am not surprised this constabulary prefers e-bikes as even for the fittest coppers the terrain must be hard going on a normal bike..

If you are looking for hills, maybe breckland area around thetford forest? I have to admit I don't know the exact area that well but had a quick check on memory map and it has gradients similar to Mid Suffolk (where there certainly are hills!) The area in Leiston / Sax / Fram to the coast has...

the first ebike I rode was in 2004 - it belonged to a young lady I knew from the rave scene (when I lived back in Reading), who let me have a go on it. Not 100% sure what it was, but it was like a very heavy ladies shopper powered by what appeared to be 3 lead acid batteries - with "easy...

perhaps that is just a bad quality mockup - many new police cycles are actually white/silver with the proper battenburg markings (blue/yellow scotchlite reflective panels)... or maybe Wisper supplies the bike in plain silver or white, leaving the various police forces (both domestic and...

I can get to the blog at home but couldn't get there from work... Mr Ching is the Jackie Chan of e-bikes :D

OK there aren't as many hills in some parts of the region but why not "closer to home" (for us) in East Anglia? - a popular holiday destination, and not too far away from London...

I've seen a report that the Wisper 905SE is becoming popular as a Police bike, with both North Wales and Surrey constabularies now using them.. LS8 UK: police mountain bikes and cycle patrols Although the return to bobbies on bikes may be good for increasing awareness / acceptance of cycling...

Are the bulk of ebikes still being sold in East and SE Asia? The impression I get is they seem to end up the more affluent (by Asian standards anyway) areas of South China and places like Singapore, Malaysia... These regions are also hot - 20 celsius in Winter - and rog did post a while back...

I read somewhere that Powacycle encountered this on their first prototypes from China some years ago ; and they immediately had the battery design changed - hence todays batteries having the sort of connector you would use for the mic off a HF/VHF transceiver. I expect anyone actually riding...

OUCH! (not just the prang, but it must cost €€€ for this unfortunate man) I have let my German get shockingly rusty (and cheated by using google translate to follow much of the thread) but I would certainly agree with this comment on the incident! Incidentally, on the pedelecs.de forum does...

on my last MTB, I used to have Schwalbe Marathon 1.5" tyres. The powacycle Salisbury actually has a '1.75"/1.95" - 559' marker on the rims - I have never seen this before on MTB wheel rims... currently it has Chinese Kenda 1.7" tyres which aren't that bad or slow (at least the tread pattern...

ah - I had forgotten about this - it explains a lot and is a major difference between London (which has always had a reasonable public transport network) and the provincial areas or even other metropolitan areas. When I lived in London (around age 18-19) I never actually considered getting a...

whats it like round your way? you can't be too far away from me I guess.. Also, East Anglia is only separated by the North Sea from NL/DK and there is a big crossover in cultures which spans centuries (actually I have seen a few "European" style utility bikes here...)

incidentally in 2005 Singapore passed swingeing restrictions on both lower powered petrol bikes (banning them outright) and ebikes - formally reducing their power to 200W rather than 250W or more - following just 16 minor accidents involving these vehicles... despite the cultural stereotypes...