I decided to buy an e-bike because I was fed up with walking everywhere or struggling with my old bike up the hills where I live (not always steep but dragging long and quite a few of them!) I usually ended up pushing it panting and red faced.
I tried a few different bikes out with front hub drive rear hub drive and centre drive. I found myself drawn to a Wisper 705 Torque. I liked the way it rode both with assistance and without. I did want to pedal under my own power most of the time.
This review is in no way intended to be technical.Just my observations. I don't really have much to compare it to just my old 6 geared Bobbin Bramble and short test rides on other e-bikes.
I went down to E-Bikes direct in Sussex and tried a few bikes out and decided to buy the Wisper. It was duly delivered last Thursday. It was very well packaged and just needed the pedals put on & handle bars straightened.
Unfortunately I hurt my back last week so was reduced to staring at the bike for a few days. Finally got out on it today.
Rode it to work it was great. Liked the little bit of a boost as I stopped/ started following a bus along a busy road, just meant that I didn't keep the traffic waiting each time we moved on.
The disk brakes are brilliant, of course all bike disk brakes probably are but it's my first bike with them. We have a town built on many old river valleys so there are lots of steep but short hills so there's a lot of braking.
The gears feel smooth and easy to use with well placed levers.
When the assistance is required it is smooth. I did have a bit of a panic when the power cut out/display went off I turned it on and went to pull away it went off again twice, then I realised the battery had worked loose my fault I'm sure. Will be double checking it's well locked in tomorrow!
Two small criticisms are there's no printed instructions with the bike(just one for the battery) and the kick stand barely holds the bike up it feels prone to falling if on anything but very level ground.
Edit: I've tightened the fixing for the stand and it seems better now.
I tried a few different bikes out with front hub drive rear hub drive and centre drive. I found myself drawn to a Wisper 705 Torque. I liked the way it rode both with assistance and without. I did want to pedal under my own power most of the time.
This review is in no way intended to be technical.Just my observations. I don't really have much to compare it to just my old 6 geared Bobbin Bramble and short test rides on other e-bikes.
I went down to E-Bikes direct in Sussex and tried a few bikes out and decided to buy the Wisper. It was duly delivered last Thursday. It was very well packaged and just needed the pedals put on & handle bars straightened.
Unfortunately I hurt my back last week so was reduced to staring at the bike for a few days. Finally got out on it today.
Rode it to work it was great. Liked the little bit of a boost as I stopped/ started following a bus along a busy road, just meant that I didn't keep the traffic waiting each time we moved on.
The disk brakes are brilliant, of course all bike disk brakes probably are but it's my first bike with them. We have a town built on many old river valleys so there are lots of steep but short hills so there's a lot of braking.
The gears feel smooth and easy to use with well placed levers.
When the assistance is required it is smooth. I did have a bit of a panic when the power cut out/display went off I turned it on and went to pull away it went off again twice, then I realised the battery had worked loose my fault I'm sure. Will be double checking it's well locked in tomorrow!
Two small criticisms are there's no printed instructions with the bike(just one for the battery) and the kick stand barely holds the bike up it feels prone to falling if on anything but very level ground.
Edit: I've tightened the fixing for the stand and it seems better now.
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