In message , at 13:07:28 on Wed,
18 Jan 2017, Theo remarked:

"[You don’t see electric bikes much in the UK at the moment, probably because]
we tend to see cycling as a sport, people getting into their lycra and
doing a time trial at the weekend. "

She's never been to Cambridge, then.

[completed the quote]

She has a point about electric bikes though. In China, they're everywhere.
You can buy them in the supermarket for a few hundred dollars. Here,
they're sold by bijou little bike shops for near a thousand pounds. Or two
or three times that if you buy from a brand name or they manage to sell you
an electric mountain bike.

£5k from the shop below.

Even in Cambridge there is basically one shop

Rutland Cycling?

dedicated to (expensive) electric bikes,

Most are about £1k-£2k.

and a few of the others have a derisory two-thousand-pound
example. And there's a busy bike hire market, but nobody hired electric
that I could find when I looked recently.

Peter Dawe is claiming he'll be selling electric bikes soon. I must pop
round and see if he has a demonstrator. "About £500 each" he says.
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Roland Perry