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Your list of pros and cons is sensible and reflects the reality of the situation. Really, only you can decide how much weight to attach to each element of your list once you have done that, you will have your answer. The bikes are more or less at opposite ends of the type of usage spectrum...

From the photograph, I couldn't say for sure if eddieo's battery is lower than a rear rack mounted one. As you mention, if it is lower that will give it an advantage. You have a point regarding pitch and yaw, pitch in particular. Thinking about it a bit more, if the battery is hung out over...

Battery Placebo Effect I'm struggling to see how this oddly positioned battery on eddieos bike can improve the handling. In terms of the bike's handling, there are essentially three axis of freedom, pitch, roll and yaw. As far as a bicycle's handling is concerned, pitch and yaw, contribute very...

Speaking purely for myself, no. I like Marmite. If I were to liken it to a food, it would be fried calf brains for me. :( But you could easily make it into Marmite :)

I don't like knocking someones new pride and joy. There is nothing worse than having something new and then people telling you that they don't like it. But, reluctantly, there are certain things which need saying: The bike looks very nice and the motor arrangement is stealthy, which will appeal...

No. I like it too. Am I correct in thinking that there is a rack mounted battery option with the Bosch system?

This might be the link here Nice bike eddieo. I'm sure there will be a few on here interested to know what you think of it after you have taken delivery. Keep us posted.

I'd not noticed the tweets tab until vhfman mentioned it, but on me screen it's just a little vertical tab in the top left hand corner of the screen. I use Safari, so it seems that the annoyance factor is browser related.

Well that's good to know. The theory is very clever in it's simplicity, and I hope Stephen continues to make good progress with his invention.

I am with you on this lemmy, I like the power to fall away and 10 MPH is just about the right speed for this to happen. It's enough to get the bike rolling and at 10 MPH you don't really notice the power start to reduce. At 14 MPH, I think the power reduction effect would be more noticeable due...

How did the pedals perform Russ? I couldn't find anything regarding this in the article. I still have doubts that the system will work. Hopefully I am wrong, but it would be nice to know how they worked in reality.

Good luck with the bike Steve. I'm very interested to hear more about these machines, they seem to be very popular. Please keep us updated with your progress.

Yes, that will be it. Perfect sense when you think about it.

I'm sure that they marketed a modern looking bike, similar in style to the Pro Connect with the same crank drive. I recall seeing one being used in the paddock by the Toyota F1 team 2 + years ago. I've quickly tried to locate it using Google but no luck. Must have been a dream.

Panasonic marketed a bike which utilised their crank drive system a while back. I don't know what happened to it or if it is still available.

The 8 speed has a wider spread of ratios, 306% I believe. I'm not sure what the ratio range is on the 3 speed hub, bit it will be narrower. The narrower range may not be a problem, depending on your intended use. If the terrain is widely varying between flat, hilly, very hilly and climbing the...

I don't know why it has that sticker on it. If possible check with the supplier of your bike.

Crossed with flecc. I would advise you to take notE of what he says. He knows a lot more than me about these things.

Sorry, PCs = Pro (P) Connect (C) s. 50 Cycles the UK Kalkhoff dealer supply that battery new with the 300 W Pro Connect s, so it will be ok.

We have debated this before. Some people feel uncomfortable being seen on an electric bike for a variety of reasons. Others, me included, don't care what other people think, they are missing out because of their ignorance. Electric bikes are versatile and fill a wide range of needs. I use mine...