Electric post bike seen in Germany

[alanterrill]

Just come back from a week around Lake Constance (Germany) and saw a few of these -hub gear, disc brakes front and back and a motor in the centre. Looks very solid and practical. Also saw a few blue step through electrics but the only name I could see was Sprint (possibly Sprinter), but more like a Giant Suede than an Ezee, but like the post bike, it had its motor in the centre like the Lafreee Twist.

Alan

 

[Ian]

No wonder it's got disc brakes, can you imagine going downhill loaded front and rear with full mailbags

 

[flecc]

With our Royal Mail currently hunting around for electric post bikes, we could yet see these imported Alan, there's not much on our market that could do this job.

 

[alanterrill]

I didn't know the British post office were looking for pedelecs, but then I found a very recent article on the subject http://www.bike-eu.com/news/article.asp?id=2304 http://www.bike-eu.com/news/article.asp?id=2304

It sounds like Pashley ought to be thinking about electrics seriously before they lose out to a big contract. Did you see the program on bicycles on BBC4 last night -primarily about cycling in the Edwardian era, it nonetheless showed Pashley's factory, and lots of hand built post bikes being put together.

Alan

 

[flecc]

It sounds like Pashley ought to be thinking about electrics seriously before they lose out to a big contract.

Alan

They may well be Alan, as they wouldn't like to lose all that Royal Mail business. Certainly they have traditionally had a strong "Buy British" bias even where that has been irrational as with buying Leyland-DAF vans when well proven vehicles like the Transit and similar were the clear choices of preference.

Pashley could easily adapt their post bike to a hub motor from Heinzmann or similar.
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