E-Bike and Electric Vehicle Reviews
Grease down the right trouser leg, a re-lubed chain every fortnight, and that faint metallic tang on your hands after every ride, sound familiar? If you commute by bike regularly, a belt drive commuter ebike solves that entire category of annoyance in one go, and it’s exactly why the technology has gone from niche curiosity … Read more
There’s a particular kind of smugness that comes from watching someone fumble with a bike key while your ebike has already unlocked itself, quietly, the moment you walked within a few metres of it. That’s the promise of a Bluetooth enabled ebike — a bike whose motor, lock, diagnostics and firmware all talk to your … Read more
Somewhere in London right now, someone is walking back to the spot where they left their electric bike, and it isn’t there. That gap on the railings — just a cut cable or an empty patch of pavement — has become a depressingly familiar sight, and the electric bike theft statistics behind it are not … Read more
Lock your bike outside a flat in Hackney or a bike rack at Waterloo for more than a few hours and you’re taking a gamble whether you like it or not. London consistently posts some of the highest bike theft figures of any UK city, and ebikes — heavier, pricier, and packed with removable batteries … Read more
Somewhere in Hackney right now, a thief is eyeing up a parked ebike, and the odds are frustratingly good that they’ll get away clean. A GPS enabled commuter ebike is an electric bicycle with location tracking built directly into its frame or motor housing, letting the owner monitor, geofence and recover it through a smartphone … Read more
Push a fully loaded electric bike up a kerb ramp with the motor switched off and you’ll understand the problem in about four seconds flat. These things are heavy. A typical battery, hub motor and reinforced frame can add 10-20kg over a normal bicycle, and when you’re not sat on the saddle to steer that … Read more
Anyone who’s ever wheeled a fully loaded e-bike up a steep driveway or squeezed it through a narrow side gate knows the problem instantly: these things are heavy. A typical e-bike weighs anywhere from 20kg to 30kg once you factor in the motor and battery, and manhandling that kind of weight by hand — especially … Read more
Right, let’s get one thing out of the way first: not every “smart” ebike on Amazon actually knows how hard you’re pedalling. Plenty of budget machines fake it with a cadence sensor — a glorified switch that flicks the motor on the moment your cranks start spinning, whether you’re barely brushing the pedals or hauling … Read more
Pedal a normal bike up a slight rise and your effort simply increases – more push, more speed, no drama. Copy that exact feeling onto an electric bike and you’ve more or less summed up how torque sensing works electric bike systems in a single sentence. Rather than flicking the motor on like a light … Read more
There’s a moment on every hill where a normal bike either turns you into a puddle of regret or makes you get off and push. A pedal assist electric bike for fitness changes that equation without removing the exercise altogether — you still pedal, your heart rate still climbs, and your legs still do genuine … Read more