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Catt · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Location: The land of OZ

Looking for a user friendly cost effective electric bycicle in the Seoul area. Would prefer to be able to view and test drive. Can be from a shop or for sale by owner.

Catt · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Location: The land of OZ

OneWayTraffic · Joined: 14 Mar 2005

I've done a fair bit of research into these, and your choices are either lead acid (550,000-700,000) or Lithium ion (1 million plus.) The lead acid ones are sometimes cheap China imports.

In Songpa, where I live, some of the shops have ebikes from time to time. If you ask at enough shops (bring some photos) you may be able to get one.

www.hirun.co.kr is a Korean maker of ebikes, some good looking ones on that website, but I can't speak to the quality at all. You could try getting a Korean friend to order one or ring them up yourself.

Me, I'm gonna wait until I go back to NZ and can get my hands on one of these:

http://www.wisper-bikes.co.uk/

There's an importer in NZ and the quality is very good apparently.

PS I'd stay away from "cost effective" myself if I was you. Some of the cheap bikes are pretty nasty. If you want to save dollars you could order a kit from China and do a conversion yourself. Up to you.

earthbound14 · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Location: seoul

I don't know much about electric bikes in Korea...but I saw a shop selling electric scooters in the Chungmuro area (where all the motorcycle shops are). Cool little shop.

This would be my electric bike of choice....a tad pricey, but it shows what can be done rather than just slapping an electric motor on a bike or gutting a motorcycle and slapping an electric engine in. This is a nice bike designed from the ground up to be a kickin electric bike. Lighter, quiter, more efficient than a motorcycle, can rock you around the city better than any pedal bike. Only draw back is you won't get in shape.

http://www.goblade.co.uk/

http://www.goblade.co.uk/Images/MCNEcoSmall.jpg

http://www.motocrossactionmag.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&tier=3&nid=B15F09F058DD40A697D4295348E0E863

Catt · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Location: The land of OZ

What my friend is looking for is a bike that he can pedal most of the time but if tired or having to go up some of the crazy hills around where we live he can switch to the electric engine.

earthbound14 · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Location: seoul

best bet is to check out the area around Chungmurro station where the motorcycle shops are (where I say the electric bike) or ask a some of the higher end bike shop owners what they know.

here is an expensive electric lowrider Schwinn (990,000) available in Korea

http://www.bestx.co.kr/index.php?pgurl=shop/sh_goods_list&ctpose=ABA&ctno=407