Hi all,

You can see the electric bicycle/scooter I bought by typing "Electric Scooter" into ebay. It's the "I-Spec Tzj-809 Electric Bicycle Scooter" - and you'll see that the seller has four bikes currently at auction. Power is 200 watts.

The seller is now saying that this next shipment will be arriving sometime after 12 June (I bought mine in late February, and he was saying then that they would arrive "late March/early April" - but I only picked it up about a week ago as the factory was delayed, the ship ran slow, and things took longer going through customs, etc, etc).

I have to say though that (having met him), the seller seems an honest, decent type of bloke.
He trades from his home at Jimboomba - and I drove down there to pick up the bike rather than pay the $175 delivery fee.

It's probably worth mentioning that the seller's brother was (at that time), also selling electric bikes on ebay (as "OZIMPORTS"), from his home at Little Mountain (just west of Caloundra). When I was buying mine, the "local" bloke only had the older model of these same bikes - and it only had a 14 ampere hour battery (mine has a 20 ah.). He may be worth contacting to see if he intends to import the new model.

So far, I am pleased with the bike. If we lived in a dead flat area, the bike would be outstanding. It happily scoots along (say) Tamarind Street at about 35 kph, but slows down quickly on any sort of hill. I just always remind myself that my leg powered (real) bicycle used to do that too. On little hills, no pedalling is necessary, but you go up them at about 15-20kph. I probably don't need to pedal at all going from town to home in Nth Maleny. Coming in to town though (for example going up the bit of a steep hill where Burgum Road meets Nth Maleny Road), I need to pedal for the last 30 metres - and I have to say that the seating position is NOT wonderfully suited to pedaling. It's easy to get up a bit of a wobble as you pedal, but perhaps I'll get better at it.

Paul Russell