Recent content by Waspy

£260 is a super low budget, but God loves a tryer! Better check Halfords daily for those re-stocked bargains. As for doing a test ride, this is very dangerous because of Newton's Third Law of Electricity: "You test an e-bike - you buy an e-bike"

Mate, I'm a little confused. Do you have a £500 budget or not? A good normal hardtail or hybrid can easily be 500 and more. There are many decent e-bikes for that money on eBay and Amazon (just ask the members here what they'd recommend) or even a Carrera on the CTW scheme. There's one thing...

In that case you'd probably be best buying this Carrera Vulcan for £480. There is a two year warranty on all electrical parts, so you'd get at least two years out of it. Then ride it for as long as you can after that and if/when it fails, dump it/sell it for parts and buy another...

Also, you can buy a pretty decent Chinese e-bike on eBay for about £600. Hitway is one example. Then when you come to pay with Paypal you get an option to pay by instalments...

They seem to have campaigns where they choose a day and hit a town centre for a bit of mass e-bike law enforcement. I should be OK mind, I have a 250w motor and no throttle and never go into the centre of my town that is a beacon of art and culture i.e. Swindon.

You are doing the Lord's work One addition to my Lottery winning list: Buy a house next door to you. Seriously though, have you never thought of starting a little e-bike repair business? Even as a low turnover hobbyist type business?

Absolutely nobody wants to ride an electric bike with failed electrics, you seem to think you are doomed to this fate if you buy Carrera :) Why are you fixated on Carrera? Ideally you want a bike where each electrical component is easily and relatively cheap to replace, should they go wrong...

How many e-bikes do you actually own? Where do you store them? Or do you give/sell them to friends and family at mate's rates? I get how working on bikes and e-bikes is a nice hobby and kind of therapeutic. I would love a little workshop, paraffin heater (that could be taking nostalgia a bit...

Me, trying to follow threads like this:

Well, that's confusing. In post #11 in that thread you name yourself as Steve, but in this thread NealH refers to you as d8veh. I had a quick look at some ancient posts of mine and the original d8veh comes up as Deleted member 4366. I think the original was from Telford also (not sure). And...

So there we have it @Peter.Bridge , we now know why d8veh and saneagle have never been seen in the same room. Mind you the original would have lost the plot with that Finnish guy complaining about some German website recently.

I believe this is called, "Riding on the hoods" and I think it is more comfortable than mountain bike riding positions. Mind you, modern mountain bikes have high head tubes and very wide handlebars which look a lot more comfortable than the museum pieces I ride.

I would love to live in your world for just one year, getting totally baked, riding an electric bike at 40MPH for 30 miles while not giving one f***. Do you actually own an alarm clock?

I like your thinking. I suppose I will now be browsing Gumtree for 27.5" bikes (which I won't buy of course).