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Anyone know much about Electric Bikes or Scooters?

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After trying to find a lightweight mobility scooter I could get into the car easily I am pondering about those smallish electric bikes or scooters?


I can walk so not completely dependant on the mobility scooter so wondered about one of these little bikes or scooters. They look smaller and easier to manage. I'd not use them much - just for a bit of freedom on a quiet path or something in the countryside - not for whizzing round supermarkets.


So many to choose not really sure where to start and one thing I want is easy to dismantle or lightweight when folded. They look like they'd be easier to manage and the little scooters look quite cheap - but if having a bike I wouldn't really want to have to pedal.
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  • Nasqueron
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    If you don't want to pedal, don't bother with an e-bike, the motor is there to boost you say up a hill not to replace pedalling, the range and battery charge is very limited

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    People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.

  • Richard53
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    If you don't mind pedalling (gently or strenuously, your choice) then there are some decent folding ebikes around. Here's one:


    http://www.voltbikes.co.uk/metro-folding-electric-bike.php


    But they ain't cheap - £1350 with the bigger battery, good for 60 miles or so.
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