HelenJ – Page 19 – Pedelecs – Electric Bike Community

The Department for Transport yesterday published a consultation document entitled ‘Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles (EAPC) Deregulation’ seeking views to its proposed changes to current legislation, which define what constitutes an electric bike for road use in the UK. The UK’s existing UK electric bike law, the Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles (EAPC) Regulations, came into force …

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Board members of Sustrans, the charity dedicated to safer travelling on foot, bike or public transport, recently experienced cycling in London’s commuter traffic in the saddle of an electric bike for the first time. The Electric Bike Company (EBC Ltd) took a range of e-bikes along to the October Sustrans board meeting to demonstrate the …

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Raleigh has announced it has secured the UK and Irish sales rights for the Dutch Koga brand. Both Raleigh and Koga are part of the Accell Group. The move pushes Raleigh’s UK portfolio of distributed brands to more than 50, with the Koga range spanning the E-bike, Race, MTB, Touring, Trekking and Comfort models – …

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Birmingham’s NEC once again opened its doors for the ever-popular Cycle Show over the weekend. The e-bike village exhibited bikes from A2B, Ansmann, Batribike, Byocycles, Cyclotricity, EBCO, FreeGo Wisper Group, Gazelle, KTM, Momentum, Powabyke and RooDog – to name just a small handful – with many displaying their updated and new models for 2015. The …

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Mat Dib, who suffers from chronic kidney disease, this week completed the Isle of Man TT mountain bike course in the fastest time of just under one and half hours on an e-bike, to become a Guinness World Record holder. Mat, an avid motorsport follower, visits the Isle of Man TT race as a spectator …

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