Dan90

Update. David from Wisper reached out and sorted everything for me, he was great Got my Tailwind Trail and had it out for a test ride, love it! Thanks for the help everyone.

What a disaster. Finally got my certificate value increased to include the delivery cost and now the price of the bike has increased by £100. I'm done with Wisper. First not being able to help me out with paying the delivery cost separately and now this. It's just not meant to be.

No luck DIdn't have a lot of time after work to explain the issue and now they're closed. I'll call them on Monday, thinking I use my cert to order the 360Wh, ask them to upgrade it to the 540Wh and I'll BACS them the shipping costs. Hopefully that works, but not sure what happens if you don't use your full certificate balance on the initial purchase. Really wish I thought of the damn delivery fees!

Awww man, my certificate is the exact price of the bike, I didn't factor in shipping cost. Would have had to pretend I was buying it and go through the motions before applying for my cert to know the total Hopefully there's some way I can pay separately for shipping, sent them a message so fingers crossed.

Thanks all, got my Cycle Scheme application done, hopefully approved tomorrow and I'll get the Tailwind ordered. Will report back if the hills causing my any trouble but I doubt it will!

Can't seem to find it, there's lots of Strava routes nearby but none that go on that hill. All I know is that 10 years ago I had to get off my bike and push after about a quarter of the way up Does anyone know how steep a hill would need to be before the Wisper Tailwind Trail would struggle?

Thanks for all the useful info guys, it's helped a lot. Think I'll go for this Wisper Tailwind Trail Crossbar, thanks Peter. If no one can see any issues with that I think I'll go ahead and get it ordered this week. Just need to speak to HR and get them on CycleScheme first. As for twist throttles and stuff, I'll maybe look into it in future to see if I can swap out the thumb throttle. Just want to get out there and get used to cycling again

I like the Tailwind Trail, looks great thanks. One question though. If down the line I wanted to take it onto private property and use a bigger motor and a half grip throttle, is that something that I can add? I'm sure there's compatability issues with other components, but just in theory? In this case if I get a full throttle bike from Wisper with a thumb throttle, could I swap that out for twist throttle? Not at all set on mid drive, only just read up on the differences after reading your post but I think hub would be more suitable for me tbh. I also really prefer the intergrated battery look, just looks a lot cleaner imo, so that kinda rules out kits for me I'm afraid.

Hi all, Wanting to buy an e-bike for the work commute, about 5 miles, lots of potholes, steep hills and a short trail through some woods. Things that might help. Budget up to £4000 but ideally less and looking to purchase through a Cycle to Work scheme. I'm 5"11 and about 75kgs. I've looked at the E MOVEMENT THUNDER V4.2, MULTITRACKS X1B, YOIKOTO E-SUMMIT, SPECIALIZED Tero 3.0 2022, TREK Marlin +6 2024. But as it's my first time looking into e-bikes I've no idea if these are junk or decent value for money. Then there's what's legal and not so legal. Recently had a go on a friends e-bike, just a cheap one from Amazon but it was a lot of fun with the throttle, really liked that, are those legal? Cause I'd love to find something I can just crank the throttle on the hills and breeze up them. I have a lot of research to do but thought I'd ask here to try get some thoughts, maybe save me a bit of time.