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Do take a look at this ultimate weirdo! Can you imagine the looks if one parked a bike with this on in a town?? And yet there is undeniably a crazy sort of logic to the idea. Go and take a look:- manta comfort saddle - Home

True - I imagine that if they protect the sliding members from muck and grit they are a valuable addition. I wonder why they went. The brakes don't appear to be nearer the forks.

Mmm! The most comfortable saddle I ever had was also the hardest and narrowest. Soft gels are usually a bit of a con.

I seem to have noticed that the front brake of the Raleigh appears to be behind the front forks as Flecc found on the Aggattu he tested, but in all the photos I have seen of the Aggattu, mostly on the 50cycles site, they are shown in front of the forks.

Raleigh Aggattu Is the Raleigh a complete carbon copy of the Aggattu has anyone yet discovered?

no tow Dear Guru Flecc - obeisance - I'm really a little glad to hear that I probably shall not need a trailer. Certainly I have no ambitions beyond shopping. I do so like the look of the panniers you had on the Aggattu at the supermarket in your review. Are they obtainable?

For some months a few years ago a trishaw style enterprise was run in a local tourist area. This involved a massive two seater trailer behind a normal ie non electric, bike which was stoked by, wait for it, a dainty young lass! How she ever did it I shall never know. It didn't last long -...

If - or rather when - I get my ebike I may well also get a trailer for it so I can do short trip hauls from the supermarket etc. What do I need to look out for in choosing a trailer for an ebike?

Oh dear! What can one do? Here's another option come jumping up just as I began to feel I was able to see the wood for the trees. Pro Connect as against Agattu. Has anyone managed to sort out a list of the differences yet? What an embarassment of riches!

God knows who made the thing, Flecc, but no doubt he is in for a long spell of purgatory as punishment! It wasn't the PowerPak which came out later and was much better. After a while I seem to remember the PowerPak had a centrifugal clutch added so that graunching the driving wheel onto the tyre...

Wow - remembered names! Dear me, Flecc, all those remembered names from the past. I used to study them avidly and feel decidedly fed up with my incredibly basic minimotor. A friend had a power pack which I thought much superior and which would actually climb a gradual slope unlike mine. I...

Thanks Many thanks, Flecc. I thought that I had searched the forum but somehow missed that. I now have much more of a feeling for the complexity of the whole subject than I had before. I had not imagined that anything resembling a strain guage could possibly be built into so small a unit...

I'm having to choose between the Agattu and the Sprint as I've mentioned elsewhere and am finding it a really difficult job. There is so much to consider, and there are convincing arguments for both at various places in this splendid forum. I am perhaps beginning to feel that the sprint may not...

mini motor Dear me - this thread has reminded me of just after Hitler's war and my first powered bike. An ancient upright boneshaker with a Mini Motor two stroke on the back driving the wheel with a sort of knife grinder that one crashed into the tyre once one had pedalled off!! Noisy smelly no...

frame size Incidently, Tim, would you have any information as to suitable frame size for man with 36 inside leg? Tony Game.

Good news Thanks Tim - that might well be good news. The point is that I want the thing to be a really ridable bike, not at all a moped, and nothing is less efficient than very bent knees! My use would be that I would ride out perhaps ten miles or so under me-power, and then come home...

Two bikes Further to my first message, the two ebikes that I've found that might suit me are the Kalkhoff Agattu as I mentioned and the ezee Sprint. Both have the step through frame which I need. Unfortunately the really big Agattu is only available in a crossbar frame. Tony Game.

Thanks Very kind of you to answer in such useful detail. I live in Suffolk actually which is pretty flat generally though with a few steep hills which however are short enough in general to walk up if need be. I don't have a medical problem other than general lack of fitness and inability to...

I badly want to continue riding a bike as I have for most of my life, but at 74 and (gulp) 17 stone I find that I get breathless too quickly to enjoy it nowadays. I'm also 6'4" which makes finding a fit difficult. This is made more of a problem as I can't any longer lift my leg over the saddle...