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    China & Taiwan Ban E-bikes

    This week China banned electric bikes in major cities and Taiwan introduce regulations requiring e-bikes and their owners to be licensed. China link to news item Taiwan link to new's item What's going on? For many years now car manufacturers in China have been lobbying the government to cap...
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    Richie Schley gets the beer on a ROTWILD

    New Video just released from ROTWILD - I wish I could jump that high! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR2fx-rSED83vRIt2fcTWVRySe3xlIHST
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    Rotwild e-bike beats the bus by 40 minutes.

    Funny video from London TimeOut's Katie Dailey racing her Rotwild Q1+ eMTB against some other 'futuristic' transport modes... http://justebikes.co.uk/reviews/news/london-timeout-rotwild-q1-electric-mbt-review-2015/
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    Last yesterday's Commons DEbate on e-bike regulations

    Here it is: Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles (Amendment) Regulations 2015 The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Claire Perry): I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015, No. 24). It...
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    Raleigh joins the de-restricted e-bike debate (at last).

    At long last Haibike dealers Raleigh have made public their their view on de-restricting electric bikes, publishing guidance for dealers and public this evening: "As you may or may not be aware, there has been much talk recently of the de-restriction of electric bikes in the UK to exceed...
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    Changes to Regulations - Speed pedelecs / dongles / throttles

    Is there a post elsewhere on Pedelecs covering this: proposed changes to e-bike regulations
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    'Mister Resistor' AKA Alexei Sayle reviews Sparta E-bike in Telegraph

    Today's Daily Telegraph includes a review of a Sparta RXS e-bike by Alexei Sayle. Petrol Head and Daily Telegraph motoring correspondent Alexei Sayle has been whizzing about town on a shiny new Sparta RXS electric bike these past weeks. Alexei: "I have to say I've fallen in love with this...
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    Financial Times on e-bikes

    Here is a link to FT article by Harry Eyres on his experience of Sparta e-bikes. The Financial Times' Harry Eyres wonders about London and e-bikes... at LEV Ltd.
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    Eden Project E-bikes

    Many thanks to Janine Kelk for organising the e-bike show at the Eden Project (20-24th April). And thanks also to the ever-positive Peter, who come rain or shine, was on hand helping hundreds of visitors on their way around the test track. In addition to Sparta, Koga and Haibikes, we took the...
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    Haibike 2013 Models now online at Justebikes

    This season's UK Haibikes are now online at Justebikes.co.uk. First consignment will be here on the 4th of February. The product improvements have come at a price I'm afraid, but they do job like no other e-bike on the planet and still represent good value for money. They're selling well and...
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    Will e-bikes ever enjoy mainstream popularity in the UK?

    E-bikes make more sense than EVs, so why do EVs get all the attention – and subsidies? I’m in the e-bike business, (founder of justebikes.co.uk) so I obviously have a particular perspective on these things. But from where I stand, it looks like government support for the electric car business...
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    New Haibikes for 2012

    2012 Haibikes are now on our website. In addition to the flagship full suspension model (bigger brakes, bigger suspension) there's a low cost low weight Hard-Tail (£ 2'007, 19.9 Kg), plus a Low-Step Trekking model for those that would prefer not to do battle with a cross-bar. Happy...
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    Gadget Show Presenters support HAiBiKE charity auction

    Gadget Show presenters Jason, Suzi, Pollyanna & Ortis in fundraising video for HAiBiKE auction (in aid of Colchester Breast Cancer Unit) See it here: Justebikes .co.uk is fundraising for Colchester Hospitals Charity Rgds, James
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    Haibike

    Here is a new thread to bring discussions, service bulletins, and thoughts on Haibike models eQ Trekking (road e-bike) and eQ XDuro (mountain e-bike) all together under one heading.
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    Justebikes Introduction

    Just an introduction... I'm James FitzGerald, founder of Light Electric Vehicles Ltd, a company specializing in providing e-bike fleets to public and private corporations. We have recently launched a new retail website “justebikes.co.uk” where you find details of our KOGA, SPARTA, HAiBiKE and...