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    Carrera vulcan or vengeance reliability?

    Sorry to clarify, I was looking at bikes up to £500 on Halfords as I can get them pretty much half price via a work scheme so the cost to me was only going to be £260, that's mainly the reason I was only looking at the 2 Carrera ebikes, I'm limited to Halfords only if I want the discount. Had a...
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    Carrera vulcan or vengeance reliability?

    Lol, that made me chuckle, your absolutely right, I think reading a few posts on the issues people have had made me paranoid. Using cycletowork scheme I was getting prices of around £260 however looks like they were last remaining stock so all gone now, the carrera ones that are in stock are...
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    Carrera vulcan or vengeance reliability?

    Live in bedfordshire and I'm not very handy to be honest, think I'd struggle
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    Carrera vulcan or vengeance reliability?

    Thank you for the replies, out of interest, when they do go wrong do you know if they are still ok to use as conventional bikes without the electric assist? I think if I know worst case scenario they are still good to ride if electrics fail it would make decision easier, they seem on the heavy...
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    Carrera vulcan or vengeance reliability?

    Hi All Totally new to e bikes and I'm after my first budget one for casual leisure use, want to spend under £500 (will be using cycletowork scheme to get this price down) and the only decent options I can see are the Carrera vulcan or vengeance options. When I've searched online I can see old...