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  1. k2397

    Recommendations for 6ft 5 rider - woosh or Wisper or something else?

    Well, I am 6' 3" and weigh just over 100kg. I bought a Wisper Wayfarer hub drive in December and am very happy with it. It is plenty big enough, and has enough power to get me up the fairly steep hills near where I live without too much exertion on my part. I chose the smaller of the two...
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    Our new Wispers in Portugal - first impressions

    You're not wrong about the impatience, my wife in particular was very keen to get her bike ASAP! The bikes were showing as unavailable on the Wisper website, so when we found some available for immediate dispatch from EBD it seemed like a good idea at the time - particularly as we had a...
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    Our new Wispers in Portugal - first impressions

    Our new Wispers arrived in Portugal today. Mine is a Red Wayfarer H9 with crossbar, my wife's a Blue Wayfarer H7 step-through, both hub drive. We bought them from E-Bikes Direct in the UK as they had availability, and they were shipped out by Algarve Removals, who we use regularly. The first...
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    New power assisted invention no batteries

    Woosh is right. I share his view that this is indeed a silly idea. A good bicycle is already an efficient device for converting energy into forward motion. The main issue is drag - which is why it is possible to cycle at over 150mph if air resistance is eliminated. There are also various...
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    Wispers in Portugal

    I am just over 60, my wife just under, and we are retired and living in Portugal. We are both quite tall, I am 6' 2" and she is 5'10", and we are not lightweights. We both have hybrid bikes but have found ourselves a bit limited by the hills and headwinds that one encounters around here -...