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It's on the roads that you'd benefit more from derestriction as normal traffic flow is often much quicker than 15.5 mph. Unless the canal tow path is very quiet and in a lot better condition than the ones I use to come into Manchester in the Summer, then you don't want to be doing 20mph+ on...

I have two of these from Amazon and they are excellent for around a tenner (lots of sellers of them - all the same light)...

It sounds like an upgraded ALP, subject to any weight and cost issues. If they cost and weigh the same and are both zero resist then perhaps Cruise will replace the ALP in future generations.

I think we all are :) If you have serious health issues then a cadence sensing motor would tend to be best. But if not and if your commute is genuinely flat and on tarmac (and you don't intend to dongle an ebike) then a decent non ebike is going to be cheaper and faster (and possibly less strain...

I have a flat 12km flat commute (24 km in total). I do it using a Bosch ALP and it's fine. The bike's original purpose was as an off road tourer and I still use it for that as well. If I was buying a bike just for a flat commute I would think about either a hub ebike or even just a modern and...

Bosch Drive Unit Active Plus Generation 3 (50Nm) Cruise (250Watt) I have this unit on my Cube. The issue is what you are using it for and how you are going to use it, If you have assist on all the time and in use then the ALP is probably a little more economical as the power settings are...

Erm - what limit? 15.5mph - how can you tell it's assisting over that limit exactly and isn't just under pedal power alone? By the sound of it this was a self-built/modified bike and may actually be illegal (as the FB user stated he had 'set his speed dial to 15.5mph' which implies he can set...

Actually I checked again as I now have the actual printout. Cube 1 year review It was 5.3WH/mile (giving an average real world range of c.100 miles) but there is an enormous BUT in that. It's that I cycled 850 out of the 1800 miles the Cube did without any assist turned on at all That shows...

On roads, no way. Bloody lethal idea. On boring bike paths I might listen to an audio book I guess, but most of the time down riverbanks and exploring cycle routes and woods etc. I far prefer to hear the world around me... Also how annoying are bloody runners who can't hear your bell on cycle...

I just got my first year service stats on my Cube Touring with Bosch ALP system. 3000km 53% Tour (which will be my commute) , 43% Eco (my wandering down rivers and canals at weekends). I hardly ever use Sport or Turbo. Average of 8.3 Watt Hours per mile (so that is an average 60 mile range in...

"Although there are people who commute up to 30 miles each way by bike it is unusual and a 25 mile round trip is on the outside bounds of what is realistic on a daily basis. ..and still do a days work. " Is it? I have a 25 mile round-trip to Manchester City Centre each dry day and it's just 40...

Thanks. I'll check him out. I go up to Poynton on my Bramhall- High Lane- Middlewood Way- Macclesfield route (I prefer off road) . I like the cafe just up from the abandoned railway station at Poynton and sometimes wander down the canal there. I followed the canal all the way towards the High...

I live in Edgeley - are you local? My Cube Touring needs a service and I'm torn bewteen Woodsons and the NW Mountain Bike Centre.

Mainly why I went with the Cube over the Motus or the Crossfuse when I bought mine a year ago. Germany is mad on ebikes and Cube are their largest manufacturer. I just figured the build quality would be superior. And it has been tank-like to be fair. Apart from moving the bell over to the...

See if you can get any Winter deals on a Cube Touring Bike. A quick Google turned up this at £1279 for example: Cube Touring 400 Even at £1600 it would be a steal. I've done 3000km trouble free on mine in the past year (marginally higher specs but still the same basic bike). Silent, zero...

I have a 2019 Cube Touring 500 Iridium with very similar specs to the Pro. Bought it a year ago. Have done 3000km on it to date . Absolutely bomb proof. Whisper silent. Zero resist. Stupid range. I use it for roaming off-road - down cycle routes, canal and river paths, commuting to work and...

Well if he has more than a 250W motor or has dongled an otherwise legal one he is definitely guilty of the electric moped offences and the no insurance one (as any normal bike insurance he has will be invalidated by him driving a speed pedelec). Assuming an engineer looked at the bike before...

The problem is that there has now been a pedestrian death due to an ebike in the UK. Is anyone honestly surprised it was an illegal ebike? If you want data we'll need to wait say ten years to get a data set of pedestrian deaths. And does anyone really think that, proportionate to their...

I'm not sure you know what correlation means. In general more drivers will exceed the speed limit than will shoot red lights. But people who never exceed the speed limit will be very unlikely to run red lights. And people who regularly exceed the speed limit will be much more likely to run red...

It's not, because most cyclists haven't a clue about the law as regards lights at all so don't make a positive decision to break it. Everyone who dongles a bike or runs a red light knows perfectly well it's illegal. People who knowingly break the 30mph speed limit in cars are a better example...