One of my mates is on about getting a electric crank drive bike for off road. Any ideas and what are the best ones guys
There were a couple at the NEC show last Autumn. There might be an exhibitors list squirrelled away somewhere on line.
Here you go http://www.haibike.de/produkte_liste_epower_en,3004.html german branded electric mountain bikes.
Quite annoying if I am honest, they turn up to a lot of the local races I enter and end up on the podium, very frustrating!
The guys at Crank Cycles have most of these models in stock.
They seem to know their stuff too!
Their ebike specific website is - www.e-bikeshop.co.uk
Loads of the Haibikes ones in the shops over here.. Germany seems to have gone for e-bikes in a big way...
i owned a Haibike rx fs for about 8 months.
fantastic bike, proper full sus design, capable of calderdale climbs and descents. managed a 300 mile offroad tour in the dales/north yorks moors last summer. it performed faultlessly........until the las 100yds of offroad.
the frame snapped. after a long period of arbitration i got a full refund.
oh, and if you can, buy local.