spotting other e-bikes

[themutiny]

I have seen several posts on here to the effect that seeing any other e-bikes is rare, and I have commented that I see quite a few. This mornings sighting really does merit a comment.

I was out walking the dogs, and about 200 yds from my house I spotted an e-bike. As I got closer, I could see that it was an Alien. When the teenage girl doing her paper round climbed on it and whizzed off up the road I was speechless..

 

[Straylight]

Obviously a very enlightened young lady!

 

[Alex728]

They must pay a lot for paper rounds these days... I don't buy papers these days (not got any cats in this house so no need for litter tray lining) but with the weight of todays rags (for instance a "right on green grauniad" having a ton of magazines etc at weekends) an ebike would make sense though..

I have seen several e-bikes in town, older powabykes, that blue thing mail order cycles in Copdock sell (ridden by an old janitor type dude), a Giant(?) with Panasonic drive, a young chap on a IZIP and also a Powabyke X-6 on the town bike stands.

saw a good looking lady on what I thought was a Wisper but it turned out to be one of them fakes. At the risk of being non-PC I did also then wonder what else about her could be fake

 

[monster]

i think there are more ebikes than we realise. some of them are really stealthy and you wouldn't spot they were ebikes. i saw a chap with an old looking box on the back of his bike and he didn't seem to be pedaling. i was in traffic and only caught a glimps of him but chances are it was an ebike. i've only seen a handfull in oxford tho and theres loads of cyclists here.

 

[Bigbee]

They must pay a lot for paper rounds these days... I don't buy papers these days (not got any cats in this house so no need for litter tray lining) but with the weight of todays rags (for instance a "right on green grauniad" having a ton of magazines etc at weekends) an ebike would make sense though..

I have seen several e-bikes in town, older powabykes, that blue thing mail order cycles in Copdock sell (ridden by an old janitor type dude), a Giant(?) with Panasonic drive, a young chap on a IZIP and also a Powabyke X-6 on the town bike stands.

saw a good looking lady on what I thought was a Wisper but it turned out to be one of them fakes. At the risk of being non-PC I did also then wonder what else about her could be fake

Did it have Wisper on the bike then?Or was it a bike made with the same sort of frame?

 

[Mussels]

I've probably noticed about six ebikes in the last year, as I pass between fifty and a hundred bikes a day then it's a very low percentage.

 

[glenn]

only seen one here

here in the city i live in in devon have only seen one ebike besides mine. I think with the hills that the 200w limit is stopping them from being popular seems like this is a silly law as its the speed that matters not the power.

 

[nigel]

In southampton it used to be powabyke city but of late i have seen some different makes out there have seen 2 wispers and a few electric folders i would say there has been a slight increase in electric bikes in southampton nigel.

 

[HarryB]

About two minutes from my house I saw another cytronex bike the same as mine. It was such a coincidence that I thought for a minute it must be mine - I have not seen it again though. I see the occasional ebike but they are usually of the type that are not pedalled although there is a woman with a Laffree in Islington.

 

[themutiny]

I regularly see an almost identical Cytronex to mine - my wife's

 

[poppy]

I saw one, an EcoBike. Since I began to be interested in Ebikes 2 years ago.

 

[jac]

i see quite a few round Brighton in the last 2 weeks i have seen 5 different e bikes but if i am walking round town or along sea front at weekend i usually see at least one

jim

 

[lectureral]

I was thinking about this on the morning run to take my wife to work in the centre of Geneva - nearly every bike I saw on the way in (about 10-12) were electric bikes - mostly panasonic-powered.

 

[Wisper Bikes]

Same sort of frame

Did it have Wisper on the bike then?Or was it a bike made with the same sort of frame?

Hi Bigbee

They simply copied (very badly) the frame and every other bit they could even to the colour without spending too much money. I would love them to put Wisper on it!!

All the best David

 

[Barnowl]

The only E-bikes I have ever seen out on the road are a couple of Powabyke shoppers. We are a minority group. Maybe we should have an Electric Pride parade. Could cut down on those "that's cheating comments".

PS. Mobility scooters excepted. There's far too many of them on the streets.

 

[fishingpaul]

Given the small percentage of ebike riders,you are unlikelly to see another bike whilst out riding,in just two visits to evesham i spotted a lafree being ridden on the first visit and a parked lafree and also a powabyke being used as a moped on my second visit which was two years later.

 

[drgcb]

I've only seen another e-bike once out and about in Sheffield. It was a new-looking Agattu parked outside the hospital at which I was working at the time. I was dismayed to see it was only secured by one of those silly locks they give away free at Center Parcs

 

[Vikki]

I see a Giant something-or-other most mornings. I've seen another that I couldn't determine what it was and last week I saw an A2B and again this morning. That's about all I've seen and these are recent sightings.

Vikki.

 

[Bigbee]

I see a Giant something-or-other most mornings.


So do I I also see it in the evenings too!