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Should do the job nicely. I did the last few miles to Sunderland recently and parts of that were very muddy, impassable on the Brompton, but probably doable on your Wisper. Dry conditions will help a lot, but the recent rain will have caused more run-off damage to the route which, from the...

Some of the C2C is on rough tracks which are not suitable for a small-wheeled bike - and the recent weather won't have helped. By small wheels, I mean a Brompton which is twitchy on cinder and borders on dangerous on anything rougher. I don't know if a Moulton is more stable.

Kudos Dave said the maker making the extravagant claims was Dutch and I think that's the key. The Gazelle I tested was a beautifully made bike, but - even on highest setting - it wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding. Any battery offering such a weedy amount of assistance will last a long...

Fairly sure Brompton specify 10kg for the front luggage block. The fixings can work loose, letting the bag bounce on them as you ride along which soon ruins the threads. Too late for the OP, but the moral is regularly check the block fixings for tightness.

Some of the roadies in the CTC take themselves far too seriously, which is not so bad, but they also expect others to take them seriously as well. In those circles, ebikes are regarded as cheating, even though no one is cheating anybody. I've hung out in the CycleChat forum for a while, they...

Perhaps Juicy think you are parking your Kent coast tanks on their Derbyshire lawn.

...like Kudos?

I regard a throttle as essential in town. From a standstill, a throttle stands the bike up a treat and - with some pedal power - really gets you moving. A throttle is also useful for those occasions when the clever pedelec electronics decide you are not getting any assistance, even though you...

Doesn't the crank drive kit need brackets fashioning and brazing to the frame? The OP declares himself a mechanical novice, so I'm wondering if a hub conversion would be a better idea. I reckon we are about on the same level, knowledge-wise, and fitting a hub kit would be challenging...

My ideal bike with a belt drive would have to have hub gears, or just a single sprocket - now there's a thought. I don't know much about the Shimano hubs, but instinctively fewer gears to me equals greater reliability so I'd be inclined to go for the nine speed. My ideal road going ebike...

Size matters a great deal when buying a bike. I tried a small and medium Giant electric step-through over the weekend. The medium was very agreeable, comfy, pulled reasonably well, I just felt at home with it. It's on the shortlist. Same bike in small was cramped, I took an instant...

Gates Carbon (belt) Drive - chains are so the century before the last century, dahling. Quality hub gear - Rohloff or possibly NuVinci. Puncture proof tyres - I've seen a vid of a mountain bike with lattice tyres which have no air pressure or tube - they seemed to be working so might not be...

To get the precentage - like on a road sign - the formula iis 100 times the rise, divided by the run. The rise is easy - how far you've risen. The run is a bit more complicated, it is the horizontal distance travelled from start to finish, which will be shorter than the length of the hill...

Malvern. Edit: Message too short to post, but the answer is still Malvern.

The LifeCycle turbo button bike sound like great fun. No surprise it's 'illegal' - a lot of fun things are. I still want one.

As I mentioned in another thread, Ikea Dimpa bags are less than £4 and fit a Brompton reasonably well: DIMPA Storage bag - IKEA

This bike has a naughty 'off-road' mode, which I think is the red button on the left side of the bars: North Yorkshire :: Electric Bikes :: LIFE CYCLE MOUNTAIN SPORT

A lot of Brompton folding bike owners use the Dimpa bag from Ikea. Nor sure if it will fit the bike you fancy, but worth a look. DIMPA Storage bag - IKEA Incidentally, if you have a good budget, the Brompton is the best folder money can buy, and you can get neat conversion for it. The...

Nor could you catch it - on a Kalkhoff.

The lady riding it was spinning a low gear to climb a hill, which is a good cycling technique. The bike appeared to be not providing much assistance, which to me indicates a weakness in the way the power is delivered. As I mentioned earlier, a throttle would cure that, giving the rider the...