I think this might be a good time to say how nice I think this forum is. Although there are disagreements sometimes, it's a natural thing that all the people are not going to agree all the time. As for trade members, I bet that most of them are in the trade in the first place because they love ebikes. Which is the same reason that brings us all to the forum and the fact that they are here shows their enthusiasm for the subject (as well as their business acumen).
All in all this forum is populated with nice folk who have mature attitudes, often giving large amounts of time to write very helpful advice to those in need. In contrast to the last forum that I spent 5 years of my time on which was frequented by young motorcyclists. It did have some real nice chaps on it, and I always got the help I needed if I asked a mechanical question, but the general behavior was not half as civilised as here. Most newbies were given a baptism of fire that involved having to undergo some kind of verbal gang initiation type flaming designed to destroy their ego. If they survived this then they would one day go on to victimise the next generation of new lads. I managed to get past their customary greeting of 'show us your tits' and earnt their respect, although not without having to complain to the mods about rudeness because I owned a 4 stroke which they somehow equated to a kind of extreme sex act and another insult which I only managed to counter by drawing a cartoon showing just how sad the guy in question was. In the 5 years I spent there I never dared show them my face once and they only saw photos of me like the one below...
So you guys are a bunch of kittens by comparison and I've come to love this place since I discovered it in January. Group hug!