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I agree, and that's certainly been the case in Germany, the home of the S bike. But we sometimes seem to have another sort of user in here, those who buy 1000 watt or even 2000 watt machines of the sort that Frank at Xipi sold. That's more the user that Dave's suggestion would suit. I don't...

Unless there are presentation changes afoot. Kalkhoff long ago took over distribution in the USA themselves as the Kalkhoff USA company, and in the latest very recent change it's now Kalkhoff US/AUS as this site shows. Kalkhoff is just a name anyway, the company is Derby Cycle Werke Gmbh as...

Also EAPC in the UK, EPAC in the EU. I agree with what you say about fitness to ride and have made the same points myself previously. Fundamentally the law permits some electric assistance for a cyclist, which means they have to be capable of being a cyclist in the first instance. If they...

The S riders expect to input pedaling so they make up the difference. See my last post above, the S class market has settled for moderate power for a low weight and longer range advantage instead of brute power. P.S. I dont think factor 4 is an influence in this, the trend was clear from the...

Of course it seems S class riders don't really want such power. Germany struggled against the EU for a quite a while before being able to get permission for the S class to have the permitted power rating to be upped from 250 watts to 500 watts. But as things have turned out, there was little...

I don't think we should ever speak of legal electric bikes, since that still implies motor powered with no mention of pedalling or assistance. Somewhere either assist or pedal should be included in the name to avoid misleading others. .

Indeed, or even just as electric bicycles. And that omission of the vital word "assist" is big problem. We are all guilty of this at times and really should stop giving them the incorrect name, since we are just misleading others. The only truly permissible names are: Electric assist...

This second post by Aftersales Kalkhoff UK indicates that this is also 50cycles, the UK Kalkhoff agent. Director Tim Snaith most commonly posts for them, but maybe he's on holiday at present. They reopen on the 4th January. .

That's no problem at all, one popular e-bike a few years back came with Kenda 700c x 1.95" tyres on 19mm inner rims. At 50mm tyre width, that's just over 2.5 times the inner rim width and it was completely stable. If you look at the recommended widths on the chart below, you'll see that 50mm...

I strongly disagree, it's not semantics, the whole point of a pedelec in law and in fact is that it is not a motor vehicle. It's a motor assisted bicycle, remaining a bicycle in every way with power only applied through the pedals. And that is how they should remain, as normal bicycles. That...

700c, 27", 28", 622, 29er are all the same thing in rim terms, only the overall diameter of tyres or measurement methods make the difference in naming. 700c overall tyre diameter in mm with a slim tyre. US and UK term. 27" is with a very skinny race bike tyre. 28" with a larger diameter...

Just post about these in this Electric Bicycles forum Boz, that's what others have always done. The photo descriptive rides are always welcome. .

Or as it always used to be expressed in an old and valid dictum: "Laws are for the guidance of the wise and the obedience of the foolish". .

We had a classic illustration of this with the original eZee Torq back in 2006/7 in this forum and beyond. Very popular at it's introduction, the Torq was owned by 38% of forum members declaring their bike make and model. Very fast with 22 mph assist and a peak power measured at 1000 watts, it...

Well said KudosDave. When someone expresses a wish to go up steep hills with little or no pedal effort, the advice they should get and I've sometimes given is that an e-bike/pedelec is simply not suitable. They need as much as 3kW to do what they want, depending on their weight and hill...

The trouble is that when one manufacturer makes such a wild claim in advertising, their competitors feel obliged to do the same or lose sales. The Bosch and Yamaha claims you provided Eddie are both quite positive and might be challengeable in law by Trading Standards or the Advertising...

Well, he might have tried it out briefly, but the figures he gave clearly didn't result from that. Such brief trials can't result in a valid opinion anyway. It takes more than a day to properly judge an e-bike's worth, two to three days in my experience and A to B in it's long review history...

Bonkers, clearly written more from guesswork rather than actual experience. Typical of today's journalists, given a task they look it up on Google and Wikipedia and then copy what they've read, including sales spiel. .

Sites claiming all manner of illegal things are legal on the road are commonplace unfortunately. Any police check would probably be initially by trying it themselves. Many of our police forces have trialled e-bikes and a few forces routinely use them, so they are familiar with what is legal...

If the changeover is under the rider's control, these are also illegal. The DfT call this an "off-road" control and have said they are definitely banned. That advice was contained in a guidance they issued to police forces in April 2013.