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The quiet Surrey town of Coulsdon, home to several major auto dealerships, is shortly to be joined by Cycling Made Easy. While the town may be an unlikely place for a transport revolution, CME has grand plans to steal the limelight from the well-established car brands in the area. Cycling Made Easy first opened its …

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H7 Engineering (owner of Oxygen Bicycles) have signed an agreement with Seascooter UK Ltd to form a new company called Oxygen Electric Bikes Ltd (OEBL). Seascooter UK Ltd will become a major shareholder in the new company and will take over all sales, marketing and support operations from its offices in Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire. H7 …

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E-bikeshop have announced their expansion into a new electric bike sales & distribution centre in Farnham on the Hampshire/Surrey border in April 2014. E-bikeshop started as a normal cycle shop in Petersfield, Hampshire, later expanding to a second, much larger site in Alton, Hampshire. With sales of electric bikes outgrowing both sites, the company will be moving …

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Maxtrack, action sports distributors in Gloucestershire, have announced that they are now distributing Koga bicycles, including conventional bicycles as well as power assisted e-bikes, as from January 2014. The 2014 range includes the E-lement, E-Nova, E-xtension, E-Tour and the E-Deluxe. Maxtrack will have a representative range of electric bike models in stock to show new …

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A Dutch Mobility Report for 2013 shows use of electric bikes have ‘rapidly increased’ in the Netherlands between 2000 and 2012. During that time cyclists travelled 14% more kilometers than in previous years, with the largest share of that growth being attributed to electric bikes. The country’s increasing numbers of senior citizens were credited with …

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ETRA, the European Two Wheels Retailers’ association, has been dissolved at a meeting on 8th January. The members at the meeting made the decision to dissolve ETRA unanimously due to insufficient funding. ETRA was launched in 1995 with the broad remit of defending and furthering the interests of independent two wheel retailers with respect to …

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