Are you aware of how the law was set in relation to electric bikes in Australia? Rumour has it that an elite cyclist advised this limit after riding one and considering it potentially dangerous! We'd like to see them limit CARS to 200watts!
Until earlier this year, it was legal to ride a petrol-motor bike up to 1 horsepower (746watts), along with its awful noise and GHG emissions. Americans can legally ride electric bikes up to this limit too, lucky them!
Yet the electric bike lobby in Australia still haven't got anywhere with trying to raise the limit, at least to the EU standard 250w.. Despite our governments' apparent commitment to a reduction in Greenhouse Gases.
This severely limits the options for e-bikers here in Oz, as many bikes and motors are made to suit the EU specs. Many of the bikes sold are actually likely to be slightly over the legal limit, as it's very hard to be exact with their output, factoring in efficiency losses and such things.
And given its pretty difficult for the authorities to test the output of electric bikes, what's stopping us from 'interpreting' the law as we see fit?
What are your thoughts?
Rev Bikes provide high-quality conversion kits & batteries, to transform standard bikes to Electric Bikes, or REV-Bikes. We are excited to start this community space, to generate conversations about this topic, and to share experiences and tips about the conversion process. We hope to have our customers and followers contribute to this blog, so we can move the movement forward together. Please join us..
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
NEW WEBSITE UP!!!
Hooray, we have a live site for REV BIKES! It's still being tweaked, but have a look at www.rev-electricbikekits.com.au Orders can be place via phone for the next week or 2 until the web builder is back from Europe, or via the Seedlinks site at www.seedlinks.com.au/shop
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Conversion Workshop at CERES
We've been getting excited about being invited to run a free demo conversion session at CERES Environment Park in Brunswick this Saturday. We had a great e-bike enthusiast teed up to deliver the session. CERES had a very funky bike donated for the project (interesting how much harder conversions are on new fandangled bikes with bells and whistles everywhere, compared to simpler older bikes!). And then at the last minute, our Guest Presenter pulls out :( Very unimpressive Monkey Magic!
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