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  1. welshmike

    Hello. I'm pleased to find this forum.

    My wife rode a similar bike with an earlier Harmony system that she hired over 2 weeks in Mallorca and was delighted with it. There was no occasion when she had to stop on a hill and restart in Mallorca unlike her first ride here in Hampshire when an oncoming vehicle in a narrow hilly lane...
  2. welshmike

    Hello. I'm pleased to find this forum.

    Yes indeed the lack of a Harmony function that would make it easy to start riding the bike on a hill was a serious oversight on my part having been seduced with the otherwise superb system. If I fully understand how the Harmony system and sensors work there may be a way of changing the...
  3. welshmike

    Hello. I'm pleased to find this forum.

    Well I promised to reports back. My wife has now enjoyed her third country lanes ride on her new bicycle which carried her up a couple of steep hills at between 10 and 15 mph while I struggled in the lowest gear of my sports road bike at 4 mph (I need the exercise). This time she set the...
  4. welshmike

    Hello. I'm pleased to find this forum.

    Yes indeed the Harmony of the Bosch motor and the Nuvinci CVT provides seamless gear changing. My wife, who has physical problems preventing her riding a non e-bike, has ridden her new Gazelle e-bike just once over a 30 mile ride last Thursday. (I was riding my Specialized Sirrus hybrid to...
  5. welshmike

    Hello. I'm pleased to find this forum.

    Sorry but your reply is not relevant to the difficulties my wife has had starting her pedelec e-bike on a steep hill (this bike and please read up how its Harmony system works http://electricbikesguildford.com/electric_bikes/gazelle_orange_cx_hybrid_m_2016_step_through.html ) .
  6. welshmike

    Hello. I'm pleased to find this forum.

    Please could you give me an example of such a bike? (I understand that to ride an e-bike that is not a pedelec one has to have a riding licence and pay road tax?)
  7. welshmike

    Hello. I'm pleased to find this forum.

    I'm a fairly keen road biker and my wife has just bought a Gazelle Orange CX HM so that she can thrash me getting up hills ;-) https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.0115983,-1.2639006,3a,75y,79.39h,61.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5WWUegcwn2MXL4FESvzv8w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 She runs the bike in...