Steb

many thanks, I'm new to pedelecs, I gather from reading this forum that reliability/longevity isn't up there with cars or ordinary bikes (I guess it is a relatively new technology). But I'd have thought a bike that chews its gearbox in 200 miles and on which lights have a manufacturing defect is pretty crap. Is that the norm though?

apologies for bumping a long post - but I'm contemplating a kalkhoff beat - does anyone know if the impulse 2.2 is reliable? I gather the impulse 2.0 had problems. does anyone have longer term experience of a kalkhoff beat with impulse 2.2? I wonder what the top speed is, and whether the lack of a suspension fork is an issue given our third world pot holed roads?

bigoted, selfish, more than a little bit racist yes, crazy no.