Electric bicycles -- who sells them?

monument

Does anybody know what bike shops or any other shops around Ireland sell electric bikes?

...I'm looking to do some research on sales of them, I don't need one myself quite yet.

weiland79

There's a shop on Capel Street in Dublin. Don't know what it's called but i've seen them in the window.

seamus

There's a shop called green machines in Terenure Village. They've been selling electric bicycles and scooters for about ten years now.

http://www.greenmachines.ie/

Victor

One on Pearse Street, another on Terenure Road East.

You need to differentiate between electric motorbikes and legitimate ped-elecs.

mcmoustache

monument wrote: »

Does anybody know what bike shops or any other shops around Ireland sell electric bikes?

...I'm looking to do some research on sales of them, I don't need one myself quite yet.

Sure you are...

*hums "...old man monument, ain't what he used to be, ain't what he used to be"*


On a more sombre note, here's some copy pasta of what I found with google:

Green Effect Technology Ltd. – www.tge.ie

2 Great Strand Street, Dublin City Centre, Dublin 01, 01 872 9626
Brands: Green Effect, Electric Bikes, Foldable Electric Bikes
GreenAer Mobility City Centre – www.greenaer.ie

12A Magennis Place, Pearse Street, Dublin City Centre, Dublin 02, 01 674 7849
Brands: Easy Bike Electric Bikes, Mobiky Foldable Bikes

monument

Thanks everybody so-far.

Anybody know if many places sell them outside Dublin?

Lumen

I saw one of these today:

http://www.ciebike.ie/escooters.html

The rear numberplate panel was an advert for the website, rather than an actual registration number.

Is that legal? I mean, is it really still a bicycle? I think it was one of the ones on the left, which appear to have pedals.

The website says ">45 kms Run Distance...More than 400 Charge Times". Presumably that means it needs an annual battery replacement.

It was going a lot slower than the advertised "25-32km/h Max Speed".

monument

Pedal assist bicycles are legal, anything else may need a licence, tax, insurance, and a reg.

Esroh

http://www.electricescapes.ie/

These guys are based in Westport

Lumen

monument wrote: »

Pedal assist bicycles are legal

I think that depends on how the pedal assist works, and at which speeds.

Satanta

Lumen wrote: »

I think that depends on how the pedal assist works, and at which speeds.

The motor must assist along with the rider pedaling (i.e. not motor on it's own) and IIRC 25kmph is the speed at which the motor must cut out/stop assistance


I had one that was throttle only as well as pedal assist and kept assisting up to 30mph. I was never pulled up on it... but it wasnt strictly legal.

kincsem

I saw a load of them in CycleSuperStore, Tallaght, a few months ago.

kenmc

some place on the corner of nangor road and park west advertising ebikes. Don't know any more than that I'm afraid. I see the sign and promptly forget to remember the details on it. Every day.
As you can probably tell, I'm a marketeers worst nightmare