Comment by jacquesm

4 years ago

Where I live you can't legally cobble together your own s-pedelec, you need type approval.

The EU is large. Did you or anyone else by any chance do any research on EU countries with a fairly flexible certificate of conformity approval procedure for L1e-B/speed pedelecs?

I'm starting to research my options for a twice weekly 2*65km commute. Most of it is ideally suited for speed pedelecs, along a canal and an old railway converted to cycle highway. The commercial offerings don't suit my needs. I wouldn't really want to pay a lot of money for a DRM offering either. That would be different for a DRM free version with serviceable battery packs.

A lot of the problem would go away if the Bosch DRM could be broken in some way, or at least convinced to accept non-Bosch batteries...

Same here. The tsdz2 based bike is limited to 25 km/h so it’s a bicycle and not a s-pedelec.

The so called cyber bike is though and it wouldn’t be legal either where I live.