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Posted 8 years ago #
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A willingness to follow orders? Makes you wonder what they're up to.
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Not recreating the third reich? Just clumsily phrased when they meant good at carrying out instructions as given.?
Here is another sad wee holiday poem
Just back from a run to castel-y-bere in the Dysyni Valley
A rabbit dying by the roadside
Shuffled itself nearer to the verge
Not there on my way down
Struck by the van I waited for near the castle
Further on its mate gazed plaintively from the hedgerow
Then turned into the field as I ran pastPosted 8 years ago # -
It’s interesting it talked about bosch engine bikes being the largest growth area.
I was out on a hybrid focus Aventura with a bosch mid mounted engine on Saturday. It had the active bosch engine rather than the performance engine of the last E bike rode also had higher gearers.
Although I went past many mountain bikes on tracks, it did not climb like the bosch performance engined mountain bike cycled a few weeks ago.
It had full mud guards and rack built in lights did seem like a would be a good city bike although I was using it on tracks.
However the high price 2100 being above the cycle to work scheme and the speed limiter being set at 15.5 mph may keep this product fairly niche.
If the cycle to work scheme was increased to 2k, and speed limit to 20 mph then would think these would sell very well.
When the city centre smoke bans/restrictions gain traction in a number of years and electric cars become more main stream, possibly people will also look to electric bikes when realise how good the technology is. Although I personally prefer my touring bike ( I was on e bike as not fixed my bike yet), many people don’t like exercise so much. Also smell issues riding a manual bike to a work or have to change clothes which could make it seem a chore. The electric hybrid solves these issues and still gives a reasonably lightweight bike feel.
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If the cycle to work scheme was increased to 2k…then would think these would sell very well.
I ran my work's cycle to work scheme for a few years and I've been saying that for a long time too. But CtW is also for getting onto bikes people who couldn't ordinarily afford a bike in the first place, and £1000 still buys a lot of bike for that purpose.
and speed limit to 20 mph
We have to be careful lest we blur the line between a bicycle with electric assist and an electric moped. Of course, 20mph is 20mph whether you're doing it by human power or electrons, but 20mph with electronics that won't turn off is perhaps a bigger risk than 20mph with legs that generally automatically turn off.
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