The Pashley is fully upright with a nice high bottom bracket.

One comment on the linked articles and radio interview:

It looks like Australia is leaning towards the EU e-bike limits of 250 watts and 25 km/hr. In my opinion this would be a mistake. I believe that Australia should adopt the North American e-bike standard.

My bike is set up for the North American standard of 750 watts and 32 km/hr. Even so, hills and/or headwinds will slow me right down to 15-20 km/hr. If I had only 1/3 the power I would be crawling.

I fail to see the point in ensuring that cyclists go very slow up hills. 250 watts is simply not enough power to achieve normal cycling speeds.

I can happily report that for the last 5 months my carport dilemma has been anything but… I take the bike 99% of the time.

The only time I don’t is when I have some large object to carry but I’m planning on buying a dutch cargo bike to fix that problem soon – I just need an e-bike version of it!

The upright dutch bike has had such a profound impact on the way we travel that we have, just today, sold one of our cars!

Cheers,

Dr Paul Martin
Brisbane, Australia

I have no doubt that this ‘seed-planting’ will see many people, who have not considered cycling, get out of their cars and hop on a bicycle – upright style +/- electric! I know of two examples where this is truly the case – both bought e-bikes.

Cyclist on these ‘upright bikes’ (electric or otherwise) look so much more inviting to non-cyclists and they’re always smiling – clearly enjoying the ride and not suffering from being unable to obtain a personal best time to work! The numbers are growing and many of them are women – which is exactly what cycling in Australia needs.

Happy cycling!

Dr Paul Martin
Brisbane, Australia

Great job!