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Wisper have been around for over a decade now and their Chinese made designs have evolved and improved over that time. I don't know which motor that is using since they switched to the Japanese Dapu motor some while ago and I don't know if they've stayed with it. So that's an unknown to me...

Agreed, hence my reservations, "if the cells are not forgeries" and "so it could be genuine". But it's a dirt cheap e-bike so I wouldn't expect more than two years of occasional good weather use, shopping etc. .

I wish there was one Lee, but sadly there isn't. Your Golf is like that due to well over a century of car design and manufacture in huge numbers. E-bikes only started to be seriously designed 16 years ago and have been made in relatively tiny numbers. No-ones even decided where the motor...

Not necessarily true, and 30 miles from a 10 Ah battery can be quite ambitious. I've owned two e-bikes with 10 Ah batteries that wouldn't get near 30 miles. One of those was subject to a thread asking all the members owing one what range they got, and the majority answer was 15 miles. A...

Lee, in this respect it's important to remember the importance of the proper name of these e-bikes. They aren't electric bikes, though often wrongly called that. They are electric-assist bicycles. In other words, you do the cycling, the motor assists you. Many of them are pedelecs, only...

Definitely one for dry weather, that roller will slip like mad in any dampness. .

Good point, Panasonic do them for their crank unit bikes, one type seen on this link. .

And the necessary very large batteries that Lee needs too. When assessing range for him, it's necessary to remember that doing the knowledge in London means plenty of stop-start to take notes etc, so consumption is much higher than running 50 miles cruising in the countryside. .

That was the complete post, but I deleted it as soon as I saw you needed a quick release front wheel. They do have one rear hub motored bike but it's crossbar and doesn't have a quick release front wheel. .

No, you can't have quick release with a front hub motor, so a rear hub motor it has to be if you want to take out the front wheel to put the bike in the back of the car. Make sure the one you choose has a quick release front wheel, many still have a front fixed hub with rear motors. .

Crank motor is a middle one at the bottom bracket which drives through the chain. That means the bike chain and sprockets take both the motor and rider power, meaning higher wear of those. The very small chainwheel on that latest Bosch unit means faster wear too. Some have found that as the...

Seems I misread your posting "fixed hubs". The simpler and very reliable direct drive motors are normally rear only, hence that suggestion. No problem with a single speed freewheel attaching either and they're quite silent. Lots of choice for the front wheel geared hub motors and any of them...

Nice bike, but not my choice for your purpose. It's crank motor so the higher chain and sprocket wear with your heavy 50 miles a day plus usage, which system I advised earlier that you should avoid. You wouldn't want to be very regularly changing chains and sprockets. And I don't like this...

Makes a change from damn Cameron. :) .

Where most agrarian land is concerned I agree. But where the run-off is from grazed hill country and bearing in mind how economically marginal such hill farming is, reforesting is a better long term solution. .

Coincidentally I was listening to a radio item earlier which indicated that the Dutch haven't got the severe flooding problem that we have. The reason being that they haven't got any hill run-off in their flat land, so any flooding from rain is minor, well spread out and easily controlled. .

But often caused by humans. Stripping the hills of their ancient forests to create those hill farms was the original cause of the flooding tendency. We had an equivalent on our housing estate on South London's fringe. The higher land at the end had been farmed for at least 400 years and...

We're all biased by our own choices of course, but I ride an eZee bike and the previous one was also. That's the ones that Cyclezee who posted above sells, and they have the advantage of a wide range of battery choices at time of purchase. They're good quality and are among the most powerful...

I do think 15 or so mph is fast enough, I'm happy with it in London and in your case for the knowledge it allows more time for observation and learning. The faster you race around, the more you'll have to concentrate on the traffic and miss the surroundings and street names. You'll already...

If the dongle is disconnected it's legal. You might not have a chance to disconnect it if dizzy after an accident though, since in crowded London you'd instantly be surrounded by helpers. .