We may need to rewrite our guide to when and where you’re allowed to ride an e-scooter. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has indicated that privately owned electric scooters will be made road legal in the Queen’s Speech on May 10.To quickly sum up the current state of affairs with regards to e-scooters: only rental vehicles … Read more
A Venice e-bike producer has had over €2m of assets seized by police following an investigation into “aggravated smuggling”. The firm in question is said to have evaded the payment of anti-dumping and customs duties by importing complete e-bikes from China, but unassembled, in separate shipments.First introduced by the EU in 1993, anti-dumping measures involve … Read more
Canyon has produced two limited edition city e-bikes built around Fazua’s new Ride 60 mid-motor system: the Commuter:ON 8 LTD, which is available with either a conventional or step-through frame, plus the pared-back and somewhat sportier Roadlite:ON 8 LTD.Fazua’s new low profile system is just 4.3kg which helps keep the total weight of the Commuter:ON … Read more
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Cooper Car Company’s bicycle arm, Cooper Bikes, has launched a ‘Classic’ range of steel e-bikes. The range comprises a single-speed, two urban bikes and a drop handlebar ‘randonneur’ – all of which feature a regenerative braking system. The Cooper Car Company is still best known for the Mini Cooper launched by John Cooper In 1961. … Read more
The Netherlands is so very close, but also so very far away – even their KwikFit is different. The Dutch version has started doing e-bike servicing.The move is actually part of a broader shift towards ‘e-servicing’ that has seen the first electric vehicle (EV) only branch of KwikFit open in Amsterdam this week.Several e-bike service … Read more
Alba is a relatively new bike brand in the market, specialising in electric folding bikes. It will come as no surprise that the Fold X is an electric folding bike. The Fold X has a 6061 aluminium step-through frame that folds in the centre. Like other folding bikes, it has a single down tube without … Read more
A dozen people have been arrested in connection with the thefts of over 700 batteries from electric mopeds in Milan. The group reportedly targeted shared-use vehicles in particular.Moto.it reports that an investigation was launched in 2020 after Cityscoot, one of Milan’s electric moped share scheme operators, reported hundreds of batteries having been taken. The operator … Read more
The Volt Connect is a well-equipped hybrid e-bike that looks ideal for commuting, leisure rides and touring. Most notably it uses a Bafang M200 mid-drive which Bafang class as a “city” mid-drive rated at 65Nm torque — around the same as the highly regarded Bosch Performance Line Gen 3 motor. The motor also weighs around the same … Read more
If you’re heading up to Alexandra Palace for the Cycle Show this weekend then there are plenty of great ebikes to see. A whole hall of them! And with a great test circuit as part of the show, there are plenty of opportunities to try them out too. Here are 11 of the bikes we … Read more
Hero International, the UK-headquartered European bike company owned by India’s Hero Cycles, has announced a new e-bike assembly line within its Trafford Park manufacturing facility in Manchester. The new line will produce around 50,000 e-bikes in three years, before scaling up to 30,000 bikes a year.Hero claims to be the largest bicycle manufacturer in the … Read more
