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the OP is looking for a living wage and I guess he is in his 40s, still a good 20 years to become a millionaire, so selling e-bikes is still a possibility. While I was looking for explanations why the UK e-bike market is so small, I came across some statistics: we buy 3.4 millions bikes a year...

I think Chinese bikes suffer from the credibility gap. First time buyers generally can trust German engineering but not Chinese. Therefore, you (Oxygen) need to sell an awful lot more bikes than your competitors to offset that credibilty gap. The gap accounts easily for 20-30% premium on retail...

I am good when it's warm and sunny, otherwise needing a fair amount of assistance.

people who buy German bikes: want 250% assistance, generally good in bed people who buy Chinese bikes: want 900% assistance, generally lazy in bed Here you have your test, no need for an ipad.

sportdirect quoted a range of 35 miles for 24V 8.5AH battery - that's 5.8WH per mile for power consumption. Small folders are a little less energy efficient, burning around 12-13WH/mile on the flat, 60WH/mile on 10% hills, I think the real range is more like 15 miles for 204WH.

substantially untrue. 1. only a tiny number of us buy direct from China 2. cost isn't the only issue 3. we buy mainly new technology or difficult to find items 4. if compatibility issues arise, they are similar to buying from ebay sellers and just as messy to solve The real problem is the...

If you could commute 50 miles a day on a legal bike for a week, I'll donate £100 to any charity of your choice. Both the KTM and the Kalkhoff run out of battery after barely 10 miles. How can you suggest to the OP to use these bikes for his 50 miles commute? not only he has to have two...

yes and no. Selling your own bikes can provide you with a proper living wage and growth prospect. You are one of those rare people with already experience in fabrication, marketing, bike mechanics and good with communications, reducing your outgoings in the intial stages.

if you have enough capital, import and sell complete bikes.

even retailing at twice the price of China, you can't make a profit selling only components, you would need a huge clientele to make it work. Firstly, you would need vast experience of e-kits to know what works with the clients' kits otherwise you'll be buried by bad stock and bad feedback...

Such a shame. AVE bikes were competitively priced, perhaps it's part of the problem. The other part is the rise of Chinese made bikes advertised in ebay.de - most Chinese bikes are sold quite cheaply by internet marketing like the recent adverts for the Mosso, causing further erosion. Perhaps...

real kudos goes to the Italian Prime Minister or did he cycle them the ezee way?

if you don't mind me asking, which bike did you ride in those 3 years? A recent post tells the story of ebay.steve121uk: http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/2nd-hand-pro-connect.11926/ and his advert on ebay...

the success of the Copenhagen wheel is astonishing: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flykly/flykly-smart-wheel/posts/632830 They've raised 7 times more money in 40 days than their initial target of $100,000. Perhaps we'd need our own London wheel project.

quite so. e-bikes in the UK are not cheap transport. To me, the reason why not many LBSs want to sell e-bikes is much lesss because they think e-bikes are a cheat but more because they are such poor value compared with sub £1,000 bikes. The 8-Fun BBS01 shows how LBSs may be tempted to switch...

is this the new 2014 Oxygen bike?

leonzos, if you are cost conscious, forget the German bikes. Their running cost exceeds 50p a mile. Also, a big 500WH battery is very useful for the range and to reduce the number of charging cycles.

they'll be back. it's the only pub in the village.

this bike is made by Shanghai Leishun Co. Ltd http://asian-resources.en.alibaba.com/company_profile.html Samll company with a lot of flair but good enough for your money?

Chinese consumers like low cost products. Europeans won't put up with frequent maintenance, water ingress (in throttles), broken (frog) battery frame, crappy wiring, propstands falling off, dim lights, hard plastic grips, rubbish suspension etc. E-bikes manufacturers in recent years...