http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/li...1c37c9959 36c

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:39:51 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/li...en-blaze-of-gl
ry-wsj3zmcsw?shareToken=68b0f8ea451b09f937d21c37c9959 36c

Seems like a good idea until you think it through and realise drivers don't
generally look at the road surface and it'll be completely invisible in
mirrors. Might be useful for pedestrians crossing but other than that it
I suspect its a waste of money.

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Spud

In message
-septe
mber.org, at 10:39:51 on Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Recliner
remarked:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/li...n-a-green-blaz
e-of-glory-wsj3zmcsw?shareToken=68b0f8ea451b09f937d21c37c9959 36c

"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.
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Roland Perry

In message , at 11:34:50 on Wed, 18 Jan
2017, d remarked:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/li...en-blaze-of-gl
ry-wsj3zmcsw?shareToken=68b0f8ea451b09f937d21c37c9959 36c

Seems like a good idea until you think it through and realise drivers don't
generally look at the road surface and it'll be completely invisible in
mirrors. Might be useful for pedestrians crossing but other than that it
I suspect its a waste of money.

Is it even legal?
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote:
"[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.

Even in Cambridge there is basically one shop dedicated to (expensive)
electric bikes, 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.

Theo

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:59:31 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 11:34:50 on Wed, 18 Jan
2017, d remarked:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/li...en-blaze-of-gl
ry-wsj3zmcsw?shareToken=68b0f8ea451b09f937d21c37c9959 36c

Seems like a good idea until you think it through and realise drivers don't
generally look at the road surface and it'll be completely invisible in
mirrors. Might be useful for pedestrians crossing but other than that it
I suspect its a waste of money.

Is it even legal?

Presumably, as they're being fitted to Sadiq's Cycles.

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

On 18 Jan 2017 13:07:28 +0000 (GMT)
Theo wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
Even in Cambridge there is basically one shop dedicated to (expensive)
electric bikes, 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

Given some mugs pay the price of a small car for a normal bike you can hardly
blame them. In the bike world there seems to be one born every nanosecond.

--
Spud

On 18 Jan 2017 13:07:28 +0000 (GMT), Theo
wrote:

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.

Even in Cambridge there is basically one shop dedicated to (expensive)
electric bikes, 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.

Electric bikes have become quite common here in Norway. Some import
cheap kits from China and retrofit their existing bike.

--
jhk

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

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?

No, https://www.electricbikesales.co.uk/

dedicated to (expensive) electric bikes,

Most are about £1k-£2k.

Meanwhile, a down-to-earth retailer is about half to a third of that:
http://wooshbikes.co.uk/?sirocco

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.

Sounds about right. A conversion kit in China is about $300.
https://bmsbattery.com/

Theo