@Jed: Yes I think there is a place, maybe on this forum, for a guide for those who want to get to grips with the mechanics of bikes, motors, batteries etc. in order to understand better how to get what they want/need from a bike.
Many, even most, will ask for advice and thats that, but for those who want to get more such a guide would be most useful. I've gained much insight from this forum into both bikes and ebikes in quite a short time on a steep learning curve, so I know it can be done; I've often thought that the information scattered around in the many threads could be centralized somehow.
I know too, though, that there are arguments against this though, like some will be put off asking questions, or leave bewildered etc: I'm not one to advocate innovation when its unnecessary, but since the still nascent ebike industry sometimes requires a hands-on DIY element, maybe a subforum for technical aspects would solve that problem, leaving the main electric bicycles forum here for Q & A type threads for advice on buying etc?
It would also be interesting to see how the amount of usage of the forums compares
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EDIT: Of course, division isn't necessarily useful (keeping up with multiple forum thread indexes for one!) and all could be (and probably would be!
) dealt with within the existing forum, in an "open" format...
Just my thoughts
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Stuart.