News – Page 27 – Pedelecs – Electric Bike Community

Australian husband and wife team, Gary and Rachel Corbett, are aiming to set a new world record for the longest electric bike journey ever recorded. The EuroVelo European cycle route network – stretching through 43 countries in total – will feature prominently in the couple’s record attempt, which is planned to take up to 12 …

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E-bikes can replace cars and make people fitter is the positive conclusion confirmed by Cycling Made Easy’s 2014 customer survey. However, Ray Wookey, the firm’s director, cautioned: “It’s not simply a case of getting any old e-bike, it has to be the right one.” The survey found that owners of e-bikes cycle between three and …

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Batribike and Oxygen have announced they’ve agreed a ‘business relationsip’ which enables them to produce 2 e-bike models in the UK for spring 2015. The models being hand-built at Batribike’s facility in Lincolnshire are the Batribike Storm and the Oxygen MTB-X. Both will be made available through existing dealer networks. With MTB styling, 24 gears, …

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The Department for Transport yesterday published a consultation document entitled ‘Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles (EAPC) Deregulation’ seeking views to its proposed changes to current legislation, which define what constitutes an electric bike for road use in the UK. The UK’s existing UK electric bike law, the Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles (EAPC) Regulations, came into force …

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