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A few weeks ago I fitted an ammeter to my Torq in order to monitor current consumption from the battery, mainly out of personal interest but also as an aid to minimising power consumption and therefore maximising range. The instrument itself is a blue LED 3 digit meter in a somewhat crudely...

Seems not everyone likes the idea, while not about electrics this article is on todays BBC news website. BBC NEWS | Magazine | The bicycle backlash unfolds

It has been discussed elsewhere whether electric bikes really are suitable for mail order, my own view is that they are if purchased from a bona-fide retailer because of the automatic rights granted to the purchaser under the distance selling regulations. A brief summary are the regulations is...

I saw an interesting machine in Nottingham city centre today, a rugged looking delivery bike with twin crossbars supporting an advertising board for "Pickwicks Sandwich Bar", outside of which it was parked with total immunity from the parking attendants. In the front wheel was a chunky looking...

I came across this recent BBC News story which seems to confirm that the state of the roads all over the country is getting worse, something that many of us have known for some time.

I have just noticed that both myself and Stuart (Coops) are very close to the 1000 mark, in fact the next lively debate could well see us both over that figure. Miles behind Flecc though who is rapidly approaching a whopping 5000!

I found this snippet on this evenings website from the local paper. "CYCLISTS CAN GET THEIR BIKES MICROCHIPPED TO HELP DETER THIEVES" 10:30 - 04 January 2008 Cyclists can help protect their bike from theft by getting an electronic tag fitted to them. Volunteers from the Crime and...

There's some interesting pdf's on this site, of particular interest are the Panasonic brochure with details of their homegrown offerings both powered and unpowered, the Sanyo e-bike brochure, the Bridgestone brochure showing details of it's belt drive bicycles and the brochure from Otec Research...

I'm a bit late posting this but for anyone who's not already aware there is £50M of lottery funds to be used for 1 of 4 projects. For most of us cyclists the preferred choice would be the Sustrans Connect 2 project concerned with improving existing cycle routes and creating new paths in 79...

I've been working on this seasonal project for a few weeks but have been awaiting a shipment of LEDs from a Chinese supplier which finally arrived yesterday enabling me to complete the project. It is a pair of LED headlamps built into dynamo lamp housings which come as standard on Ezee...

While casually looking at the members list I was quite surprised to find that I have the third highest number of posts, not far behind Coops but miles behind Flecc. That led to some thoughts about how many of the members are currently active, and so I came up with the following statistics...

Well I'm back from from holiday, not a lot to report other than that the South Hams region of Devon is very hilly, far worse than anything I've previously experienced in that the majority of the land mass is at 400-500 feet, punctuated by frequent descents to virtually sea level meaning many...

Just a quick post to let you all know I've packed the bike into the car, hitched the caravan up and will be away cycling in South Devon and West Somerset for the next 10 days and as I don't have a mobile device other than an ordinary cellular phone I will be silent on the forum. I'm sure the...

Hi All, The Royal Mail story seems to have gone quite lately but last week I thought I saw a postie on an electric bike, it was a very fleeting glimpse of a very shiny and obviously brand new bike with what looked like a front hub motor about the size of that used in the Torq. It had a PO red...

Does anyone know of electric bikes being used for delivery or courier purposes. I know German posties use them and our that own Royal Mail is considering them but know of no other examples except perhaps the small fleet of rickshaws in use in Leicester city centre. These are primarily powered by...

I came across this, it may be of interest to anyone in the south east wanting an extended trial of of a Powacycle or Urban Mover or anyone contemplating e-biking wanting an opportunity to try it out.

Last Sunday I noticed a noise from the back of the Torq but only when cornering hard, since then it got worse until today I decided I must investigate. The noise sounded like a metallic scraping once per revolution and the main suspect was the roller brake. The bike was inverted and sure enough...

I've been out on the Torq today making the the most of the sunshine. This morning a lycra clad cyclist on a racing bike emerged from a golf club entrance a hundered meters or so ahead of me and on the gently rising slope began to pull further ahead until I lost sight of him. Further on where the...

As promised for John and anyone else who's interested here's details of my extremely bright rearlamp. It consists of 14 superbright 5mm LED's and 1 standard flashing LED inserted into 5mm holes drilled in a cateye rack mount reflector (4 of the LEDs are behind the lens and not visible in the...

Whist casually browsing the 50cycles blog I came across this photo. At first glance it's an Ezee Torq, it even has the Torq logo on the down tube, but look closer, suspension forks and a motor rather larger than the usual Torq motor, and while I can't be certain, the front wheel looks smaller...