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Evening, Throttle Jockeys! Been reading about rear-wheel puncture repairs, and think I'll try a Cobra inner tube for £11.99. They're like a straight snake that you link together with out having to remove zee dreaded wheel! Anyone tried 'em? Johnny

Hi, Throttle Jockeys! Am still whizzing around on my Pro Rider e-Wayfarer and am so pleased I got into e-biking. Have been all over the shop with it, having tremendous fun. Next trip will be along the prom from St. Anne's to Fleetwood, and maybe back on the tram if I get too c-cold! The...

Hi,throttle jockeys! :) Still having loads of fun on my trusty new eWayfarer. It seems to fly along the canal towpath. I think there's extra phlogisten in the air near water, which enhances the magnetic flux of the motor. Or maybe it's just the narrowness of the pathway ahead that makes you...

Hi, Throttles Jockeys! My pal and I (we're codgers) bought a brace of Pro Rider e-Wayfarers a couple of weeks ago, and have had tons of fun already. Blinking marvellous! Took 'em camping on Anglesey and whizzed around all over the shop, then back to the tent & electric hook-up for tea and a...

Evening, battery boys and gals! A couple of years ago I almost bought an eastern-looking pedal rickshaw from a junkshop for £250. I'm pretty sure it was a genuine imported one. It was rather crudely manufactured, gearless - and quite hellish to pedal, which is why I didn't take the plunge...

Evening, throttle-jockeys! Yesterday I spotted a fellow throttle-jockey steaming effortlessly up the hills of Rivington (near Bolton, Lancs, if anyone knows 'em). He was a middle-aged chap and he looked as if he was just on a leisurely amble along! But his bike looked like my pa's old green...

This is what electric bikers really need: a county-wide grid of girlfriends, or boyfriends, strategically placed within battery range. Somewhere you can stop for 4 - 6 hours for tea and cakes whilst topping up. What I'm really envisaging is a network of places you can get a charge for a fee...

Evening, battery boys and gals! Have just been looking at Alien bikes and have taken a fancy to their Cruiser. Nice twist-style framework with an American-retro look, a Suzhou Bafan 250watt motor, a 36v Lion neatly placed on the carrier, and not a bad price either. It looks fun! Any...

Evening, colleagues! I think all you throttle jockeys (thanks, BlewIt!) have got it just right. My moped pal and I have long thought that low-powered cruising is tops. Whenever we go out on our BSAs, in a group, it always end up as a a high-speed ride and we hardly get to enjoy the...

"Anything you like, because he'll never catch up with you!" Afternoon, watt-wayfarers! What DO you call a chap or gal on an electric bike? I like 'electrocyclists' best, probably, but it's still a bit of a mouthful and sounds too much like electrocution! 'E-bikers' is not bad, I suppose, but...

Evening, volt-voyageurs! I've now had a little spin on a Milan 2. Great fun, and totally silent running! Also, I've noticed that a couple of e-bike manufacturers specify 200w motors for the UK market, and 250w for the EU. Is is worth, say, buying a bike in Belgium for the sake of the extra 50...

There was a programme on Radio 4 not long ago called 'Three Men in a Float'. Three young funsters travelled across England in a milk-float, begging for a recharge wherever they could get it. It took a while, but they made it, and I think one generous bloke was considering altering his house...

Evening, electroids! I was just thinking back to the 1950s, and I don't remember seeing any electric bike technology then - it was all super little two-strokes back then. Think the earliest electric I came across was in the 60s. There was a little one you could get with (Embassy, I think)...

Any electrobikers(!) near Manchester? I'm lining you up for a run out:) , with tea and cakes en route, when I finally get my bike! :) Johnny

Evening, riders! I've spent the past three or four months studying and mulling over electric bikes - and I feel like I'm going round and round in circles and about to do my fruit! I just want one to play around on (mostly on the flat) for starters, really, and I've currently got in mind a...

Evening, pedallers! Just joined your magic website! I've been a-whizzing around the past few years on a 1959 two-stroke NSU Quickly moped, but it's really time I went electric! I have two ideas in mind: a brushless Nano-Motor front-wheel kit; or, for more power, a self-build set-up with a...