E-Bike and Electric Vehicle Reviews
Your spine knows things your brain hasn’t caught up with yet. Ask anyone who’s ridden a rigid-forked hybrid over a patch of Victorian cobbles near a UK train station, or clattered through one of the thousands of potholes that appear on British roads every winter — the kind that seem to multiply overnight like something … Read more
Here’s a confession every commuter eventually makes to themselves, usually while scrubbing chain grease out of a work trouser hem for the third time that month: bicycle chains are brilliant technology wrapped in a genuinely irritating maintenance routine. That’s the real story behind belt drive ebike maintenance cost — it isn’t really about the belt … Read more
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