Your Favourite Electric Bike Websites

[EdBike]

Except this one ;-) We know this website’s awesome...

New electric bike users need to be educated, not sold to when they first come across electric bikes. Whilst there are a handful of awesome websites out there, they’re not necessarily ranking at the search engines, and being found.

I’d like to run a little contest where you can nominate a set of electric bike websites which help the electric bike industry as a whole, so not necessarily the ones which want you to buy stuff!

Post your nominations below with a one-line reason, and then I’ll post a poll of the nominations once people have given their suggestions in. Then, we can create a top 10 best electric bikes websites list, and reward some hardworking webmasters with an early Christmas present letting them know we recognize and value their work

And maybe we could add categories like Best webpage or Best online electric bike shop too?

Three of my nominations which I’ve come across that have helped me:

Electric Bikes - Electric Bike News - Reviews - Trends - Information - a great electric bike blog posting latest news and reviews
A to B Magazine - Reviews Electric Bikes, Foldable Bicycles, eScooters - the online partner of A to B magazine features dozens of great (often UK specific) guides to electric bikes, makes and models as well as showing off benefits of electric bikes
index - so this one is actually three minisites, but Flecc, electric bike guru and resident hero’s efforts explaining the techincal elements of electric bikes, especially his site’s on the Panasonic crank-drive units and Torq Talk.

 

[Blew it]

Has to be AtoB

AtoB magazine is my preferred site for reviews. All machines reviewed are tested on the same route by the same riders. The test route is ridden using the highest power mode available to the machine on test. This is important, because it tells the least fittest rider living in a hilly area what sort of range per charge should be expected.

When trying to decide which center-drive machine would best suit my needs, it was the reviews of the Gepida Reptilla, the Raleigh Dover and the Daum Pedelec in AtoB which influenced my final choice, a Panasonic powered Kalkhoff Sahel Pro Disc.

EDIT: Oops!, just noticed you wanted a 'one-liner'. how about "Real life reviews for real life riders"

 

[EdBike]

AtoB magazine is my preferred site for reviews. All machines reviewed are tested on the same route by the same riders. The test route is ridden using the highest power mode available to the machine on test. This is important, because it tells the least fittest rider living in a hilly area what sort of range per charge should be expected.

When trying to decide which center-drive machine would best suit my needs, it was the reviews of the Gepida Reptilla, the Raleigh Dover and the Daum Pedelec in AtoB which influenced my final choice, a Panasonic powered Kalkhoff Sahel Pro Disc.

EDIT: Oops!, just noticed you wanted a 'one-liner'. how about "Real life reviews for real life riders"

Thanks for your input! Don't worry about the 'one-liner'. It's just so we can understand why.

I like the AtoB website - have you come across the ElectricBikeMag website? Electric Bike Magazine: the independent guide to power assisted cycling

 

[blackrat]

Great topic for someone like me who is new to all of this.
Thanks,
Blackrat

 

[EdBike]

50cycles Genius

Having just seen the videos page on 50cycles, how about suggesting your favourite electric bike videos too: http://www.50cycles.com/videos.htm

 

[flecc]

Having just seen the videos page on 50cycles, how about suggesting your favourite electric bike videos too: http://www.50cycles.com/videos.htm

Already done Ed, resides in the "Sticky Threads" folder at the top of the page with three pages full of posts about them:

Electric Bike Videos
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[EdBike]

Already done Ed, resides in the "Sticky Threads" folder at the top of the page with three pages full of posts about them:

Electric Bike Videos
.

Cheers Flecc. Will add them to file. What independent websites have you come across that stand out to you?

 

[flecc]

Cheers Flecc. Will add them to file. What independent websites have you come across that stand out to you?

I can't really recall any offhand Ed, I tend to notice the ones that make me shudder rather than the ones which please me.

In part this is because I'm always to busy to spend time looking in depth through websites, and for the same reason I rarely view videos, not enough time.

It might appear from my 16,000 plus posts and other e-bike activities that this is all I do, but in fact that's only a small part of my life and I have many other interests. This year has been particularly busy and I could well have given up retirement and gone back to work for a rest!
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[EdBike]

I can't really recall any offhand Ed, I tend to notice the ones that make me shudder rather than the ones which please me.

In part this is because I'm always to busy to spend time looking in depth through websites, and for the same reason I rarely view videos, not enough time.

It might appear from my 16,000 plus posts and other e-bike activities that this is all I do, but in fact that's only a small part of my life and I have many other interests. This year has been particularly busy and I could well have given up retirement and gone back to work for a rest!
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Sure, I understand. I wasn't trying to put you on the spot or anything; just an open question. You can appreciate why I asked though? You and anyone else

Not even the industry folk spend all there time thinking electric bikes - still, I'd love to meet you and others here in person and just talk. That is, of course, if we all find the time