Fair enough Scott, whatever butters your parsnips mate.
Bikegear23 seems to have several Kalkhoff bikes for sale on ebay currently. All the pics of the bikes are taken outside the 50cycles warehouse it would appear.
Whilst I appreciate that you have received your bike (which is great), there are 42 of us who haven't and won't be receiving ours, as we bought our bikes from 50cycles ltd, which is now the subject of an insolvency order, with a liquidator to be appointed.
It remains too easy for UK company directors to ditch one company with massive debts and start another one, which is exactly what's happened here. However when these company directors appear in court (which is mandatory in proceedings such as this), there will be questions asked as to their trading patterns post company wind-up/insolvency.
There are many riding S Class bikes illegally as pedelecs and the likelyhood of getting caught is very low at the moment.
Regardless of whether they set up again, with a history like the one you describe, I doubt any manufacturer / distributor would touch them with a barge pole. Even if they use another name for cover, word seems to spread as to who is behind the company. If any brand sells to a retailer with a track record of dissolving a business with massive debt, and then popping up again a short while later, you have to say, more fool them, they knew the risk.
The good news is that there can't be many large ebike suppliers left for them to deal with.
Somehow, I don’t think you will be getting a reply to this. There used to be a company on here that did this sort of thing all the time. A new user would pop up and sing the praises of this particular company and then disappear when rumbled. I forget the name of the company involved, but it may come back to me later.
Even more true since such a large number of European brands are owned by two very large Dutch groups, Accell and Pon Holdings.
Once again thank you for everyone's advice. I now have a much clearer path to follow on my route to eBike ownership. S Class bikes not being an option now. Cheers.
My great great great Grandmother survived the Titanic. She said there was no problem with the number of lifeboats as far as she was concerned.
I think it could be more than a diversion. Scott and Co. have been playing with the company valuation for nearly a decade, long ago advertising it for sale, possibly to ascertain a value to borrow against. They've built up a long chain of debts to many previous suppliers, now escaping them all via insolvency.
You quoted (somewhere!) that you and 41 others were owed £137,944.49 for bikes ordered but not received. You do realize that is an average of £3284 per bike? That would about right if most were full suspension MTB E bikes but surely not.Just Wondering.
