First Electric Bike

[MarkF]

The deal is now done, I forgot that my lad owed me £8.50, so that is the fee for him to collect and ride the bike home, a fiver wouldn't swing the deal. Looking forward to getting it in the garage and a fettle.

Tightwad.

Get her one of these:

http://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-gb/bikes/model/prime.e.2.w/19215/77409/#specifications

I don't think that is any better looking, one day I'll buy one when the design is "cooler" and maybe re-charge times lower, there are some wonderful designs from small companies.

 

[classic33]

The deal is now done, I forgot that my lad owed me £8.50, so that is the fee for him to collect and ride the bike home, a fiver wouldn't swing the deal. Looking forward to getting it in the garage and a fettle.



I don't think that is any better looking, one day I'll buy one when the design is "cooler" and maybe re-charge times lower, there are some wonderful designs from small companies.

You're certain it wasn't £8.49 he owed you?

 

[summerdays]

And her reaction? or is it yet to be picked up?

Could you get your son to post her comments on your behalf .... if you are unable to....

 

[classic33]

And her reaction? or is it yet to be picked up?

Could you get your son to post her comments on your behalf .... if you are unable to....

Battered to death with a dead battery you mean!

 

[rebelpeter]

Electric bikes are good ive had three just got a new one, always best to get the 36 volt one rather than a 24 volt, im a bit shocked though to hear you have to pay your own son to help his own mother ....

 

[welsh dragon]

Electric bikes are good ive had three just got a new one, always best to get the 36 volt one rather than a 24 volt, im a bit shocked though to hear you have to pay your own son to help his own mother ....

He had to pay his son because it's so dam ugly. I have no doubt his friends would laugh they're heads off if they saw him riding it, hence having to pay him.

 

[MarkF]

Electric bikes are good ive had three just got a new one, always best to get the 36 volt one rather than a 24 volt, im a bit shocked though to hear you have to pay your own son to help his own mother ....

If I was 16, no way would £8.50 do the trick, look at it! He's to pick it up at 9am Saturday and will spend till then worrying, it wouldn't surprise me if he went via the canal and back up through the woods, tripling the journey length but retaining his street cred.

It's a 36v model.

 

[welsh dragon]

If I was 16, no way would £8.50 do the trick, look at it! He's to pick it up at 9am Saturday and will spend till then worrying, it wouldn't surprise me if he went via the canal and back up through the woods, tripling the journey length but retaining his street cred.

It's a 36v model.

Thats the ticket . There's nothing better than embarrassing the kids

 

[summerdays]

Thats the ticket . There's nothing better than embarrassing the kids

Well your wife will find that bit funny anyway!!!

 

[ColinJ]

The previous owner paid £500 for it. You paid £50. I think the fact that (s)he effectively paid you £450 to take it away should tell you something!

 

[classic33]

He had to pay his son because it's so dam ugly. I have no doubt his friends would laugh they're heads off if they saw him riding it, hence having to pay him.

Blackmail would be more like it.
Done correctly, he'd have a picture of him actually riding it for future use though.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Lets look at it logically, if you took off the basket and the rack box, then took off the big motorbike mirrors for something more subtle or none at all, then take off the orange spoke reflectors, then put on a set of nice plain black tyres it would start to look a lot better and more like a bike.


Then all you'd need to do is throw a tarpaulin over the whole thing and never lift that up again and it'd be fine

 

[tomgordon]

Kalkoff, bide your time they go cheap on eBay you just have to wait and wait and wait!!l one day I will buy one. There are times when I need one but I just can't bring myself to buy one.

 

[Kestevan]

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Lets look at it logically, if you took off the basket and the rack box, then took off the big motorbike mirrors for something more subtle or none at all, then take off the orange spoke reflectors, then put on a set of nice plain black tyres it would start to look a lot better and more like a bike.


Then all you'd need to do is throw a tarpaulin over the whole thing and never lift that up again and it'd be fine

Nah - that's just not fair to future generations. At some point in the distant future a poor unsuspecting fool will be sure to lift the tarp....... (just what is the half life of fugly btw).

I'd suggest hammers.... and petrol, lots of petrol. Get the remains buried next to whatever bits of you your poor wife leaves behind after you give it to her.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I think that could be the coolest looking e_bike out there.