I'd always thought that eBikes were illegal in the UK, that was until I stumbled across the BBC article the other day 
I gave up cycling several years ago as I found the hills/headwinds getting a bit too much and I didn't even bother when on holiday abroad (lots of nice level tracks) as my wife isn't a cyclist at all and hasn't been on a bike since her teenage years.
However, having realised that eBikes were not only legal, but also quite sophisticated, I wondered if there was a dedicated forum and subsequently came across this one - and started reading. A couple of days later I had ordered a couple of bikes from Hatti, a Santana for my wife and a Sirocco CD for myself. Delivery should be later this week
We have good tracks near us (Loch Lomond) and also take the car to the Mosel Valley quite often so the opportunities are there for some fun cycling. It will be nice to go somewhere and have a pub lunch again
The biggest difficulty has been choosing the right bikes as there appear to be a number of good brands discussed on here and, more importantly, very good feedback from the retailers/distributors. The bikes from Juicy, Kudos eZee (and others) all look like possible future purchases but we've gone with Woosh to start our eBike adventure. Similarly, we don't really know what the "real life" differences will be between hub or crank, types of gearing, battery life etc etc so we decided just to get stuck in and find out. Hatti was certainly very helpful when discussing different models.
So, thank you all for a very informative forum and I shall, no doubt, be posting some ride reports and pics in due course
I gave up cycling several years ago as I found the hills/headwinds getting a bit too much and I didn't even bother when on holiday abroad (lots of nice level tracks) as my wife isn't a cyclist at all and hasn't been on a bike since her teenage years.
However, having realised that eBikes were not only legal, but also quite sophisticated, I wondered if there was a dedicated forum and subsequently came across this one - and started reading. A couple of days later I had ordered a couple of bikes from Hatti, a Santana for my wife and a Sirocco CD for myself. Delivery should be later this week
We have good tracks near us (Loch Lomond) and also take the car to the Mosel Valley quite often so the opportunities are there for some fun cycling. It will be nice to go somewhere and have a pub lunch again
The biggest difficulty has been choosing the right bikes as there appear to be a number of good brands discussed on here and, more importantly, very good feedback from the retailers/distributors. The bikes from Juicy, Kudos eZee (and others) all look like possible future purchases but we've gone with Woosh to start our eBike adventure. Similarly, we don't really know what the "real life" differences will be between hub or crank, types of gearing, battery life etc etc so we decided just to get stuck in and find out. Hatti was certainly very helpful when discussing different models.
So, thank you all for a very informative forum and I shall, no doubt, be posting some ride reports and pics in due course
