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I was looking earlier this year to add to my stable of e bikes that I retail. having sold quite a few hundred ebikes I didn't want to get my fingers burnt, and have customers complaining about unreliable bikes. Back-up from the supplier was important, and feedback off forums like this one...

As a retailer I am stuck in between the suppliers and the customers of electric bikes, so get proper feedback on the shop floor. I have sold nearly 400 electric bikes. I decided to get into them early as I could see great potential, and a good niche market for my shop, as our competitors had the...

No problem Orraman. I do see the point of it, with a mixed forum like this, I do tend to use the forum to gain great advise. If we all work together, it is all for the good of promoting the use of electric bikes. Keep up the great work.

Have added my status as a cycle shop owner to comply with the terms of this site.

Wow I didn't realise I had such talented customers. :D I am so glad you love the bike, we were very impressed when we first saw them, especially after selling cheaper electric bikes for so many years. They are so reliable and well built. It just goes to show that it is so true, that you only...

I hope you are happy with your Raleigh Ebike. :)

I actually spend most of my time in Brittany, although I do own a cycle shop in the UK. There are always electric bikes for sale in some supermarkets, and the post office now have custom built electric bikes for deliveries. So they are slowly creeping in. The overheads when running a business...

if sports HQ are the sole inporters, I am sure they set their own RRP which could be inflated to make the bike look a bigger bargain when it is discounted, I mean have you evet seen a sette suite for sale at less than half the RRP! saying that it looks a good buy at that price, as a second back...

It probably closed because people went to Halfords for cheaper parts! You cant always compete with a multi national for its buying power.

I do not think better brake pads will make a big difference, but sometimes cheap outer brake cables tend to crimp slightly under pressure. So better quality outer brake cables might help, especially on the back brake. of course better levers will help as well, but you would lose the cut out. You...

For one, you do not have to click on the links, secondly I do not think that many people do. You also neew hundreds of thousands of clicks to make any real money. But whatever they do make, good luck to them, for all the wealth of free information that you get on here, and yet you still...

Try finding a fault on some cheap ebike bought off the INTERNET. Could take you two hours and still no joy, so you ask the customer for £50 for your time, but the bike is still not working. If you do get it going after finding some poorly soldered wire, after dismantling half the bike, for sure...

Flec I was just comparing the Raleigh Dover at £1799 to the Kalhoff pro connect at £1750. The Raleigh has suspension forks and seat post, and the rest of the spec seems similar, so it seems it is slightly better value than the Kalhoff, or at least equal. Or am I missing something.

I got this reply from Scott UK ; That is correct we will not be selling the E Bikes this season. They will only be sold in Germany and a few other European countries.

I did read somewhere that they were only going to supply Europe and not the UK though.

Am I a Businessman ? Yes I do in fact own a cycle shop, and I have seen only two of my customers on here and as I am based in the Channel Islands I am hardly here to promote my shop as we do not, or ever would sell electric bikes on line. One thing that I have learnt in business, is that...

There was also the basic version, not the LPX model.

Can anyone recommend a good solar charger for electric bikes.

There are two versions, the LPX has the lighter better battery. I have sold about 60 of these with not to many problems, had the odd control box fault.

I own a bike shop and have fitted a few kits to customers bikes. Basically unless you are quite handy with spanner I would try to buy an electric bike off the shelf. One problem we had was the size of the battery we could fit, so they had a poor range, and the customer kept coming back...