This is Chester, initially a bike, then a horse bike and now an Electric Bike Horse. He is absolutely gorgeous!

This was a tandem bike that came in for a conversion. Job done in about 1 hour. Quick fit of putting a front hub motor on and a tube battery in the frame. Came together well, fun to ride! This couple will be getting out a lot more in the future!

The Roadrunner is one of our more popular and most reliable models. Kahmong, from Christmas island, was delighted with his purchase today. This bike has a Bafang rear hub motor, Samsung 14.5Ah battery, integrated lights, hydraulic discs and an extremely riding and efficient riding position. Please come in for a test ride anytime! A bit more info on this bike here.

Whilst kids should be encouraged to pedal, every now and then there is a good reason to make a kid’s electric bike. This was a Norco 26″ mountain bike that we put a kit on. It serves a purpose so this cool guy can go electric mountain bike riding with his Dad, who also rides an electric mountain bike. They’ve been having loads of funs in the hills and trails. Surprisingly, children tend to be a lot more cautious than adults at this age and tend to only use the motor uphill when needed. Allows everyone to have loads of fun outdoors! Please note this isn’t for riding on the road, kids need to legally be 16 for riding on the road but on the trails it’s all fair game.

If you’re looking for a more production line model for a child then XDS are now doing an attractive model. Click here to see.

We’ve recently started stocking the Fatboy Bikes. These are pretty popular now for teens, parents of kids and bogans. They have fat 20″ tyres, usually around 4″ wide and are actually pretty fun to ride around. They are sturdy enough for parents of young kids to use as a type of cargo bike with their extended seat and foot-pegs and cool enough for teens and bogans to ride around with a smile instead of a snarl. Fatboy have jumped onto this trending style of ebike to bring in a few of their own models. They are the Harlem, the Scrambler and the Bagus. All pictured below. They have taken a typical Alibaba ebike and tweaked it to have good brakes, improved battery characteristics, off road/unroad toggles and picked up on the latest trending styles of these fat bikes making headlines around the world for often nefarious reasons.

The Scrambler:

The Harlem:

The Bagus:

We’re super excited that the Amflow ebikes have finally arrived! These are one of the best electric mountain bikes available in the world currently. They are extremely light and responsive and feel as close to a regular mountain bike as we’ve ever experienced – apart from the awesome power boost.

These bikes are the first to come out with the motor from DJI, the world’s biggest and best known recreational drone manufacturer. They’ve named it the Avinox system, you can read all about it here. It’s a light weight, relatively high power mid-drive ebike system. The motor weighs 2.52kg and is capable of bursts of 850W peak power and 105 Nm continuous torque.

The battery is integrated into the down-tube of the frame and comes in two configurations of 800Wh and 600Wh, weighing 3.74 kg and 2.87 kg respectively. For the extra 1 kg, it’d be highly recommended to choose the higher capacity battery for the 25% extra riding range. There is a fast charger so that you can charge to 75% capacity in 1.5 hours.

The display sits above the top tube of the bike with function toggles on both hands. It’s a bright display that is touch sensitive and displays information including speed, distance, gradient, torque, estimate range, motor power and cyclist power. You can ride it in various power modes. These are auto, eco, trail and turbo. In any of these modes you can hold the toggle button down for around a second and it will enter boost mode for 30 seconds to give you maximum power.

Of course there is an app. It connects via bluetooth and allows you to customise various parameters, unlock the bike, see riding statistics, map your ride and access bike diagnostics. You can also put a SIM card into the bike to allow GPS based bike tracking.

There are currently only two models available. They are both Carbon and use the same frame, battery and motor. The two models are called the Amflow PL Carbon and the more expensive one is the Amflow PL Carbon Pro. You can see the full specs by clicking here on these models. The key differences between these bikes are listed below:

Please come into our shop to check them out. There will be a couple that will be set up available for hire from the shop next door to us Fremantle Bikes. These bikes are getting amazing reviews online. Here is just a few random picks from some independent sites that review the bike more extensively.

Say a congratulations to Sean. He’s travelled from NZ to Melbourne to Adelaide to Darwin to down the west coast of Australia to Fremantle to pop in for a spare tube. He’s built himself a solar-powered recumbent. He has a panel on top and a trailer that carries another spare panel and some camping equipment. This has a rear hub motor and 400W of panels in total. Sean reliably informs me that in the sun he can cruise at a touch over 40km/h and the panels are actually putting in a little extra energy into his battery pack. Quite remarkable journey. He travels up to 200km a day on this with power from the sun and pain-au-chocolat whenever he can find one. Nice effort!

Welcome to the Super 73 models in Fremantle. These are American designed electric bikes that are brought into the country by Ben Buckler boards in Sydney. They are a retro style bike that can be driven in street-legal mode or off-road complete beast mode! The bikes come with an app to allow you to unlock some serious power. They are a heavy but comfortable bike to ride around legally on the streets but they come into their own when on trails, beach or other off-road areas. You can unlock up to 2000 Watts of power in this mode.

Please come into our shop at 33 Adelaide street, Fremantle to test-ride one of these! – Street mode only though….

This old-school chopper bike came together nicely. We put the Bafang mid drive kit on it. Super fun ride. Please bring in bikes you’d like made electric into our store. Ones like these are our favourites! 33 Adelaide street, Fremantle. Click here to see how it rides!

Thanks to Warwick for sending in the following review:

“Our Breezer bike has been fitted out with your electric motor and my wife is really happy with it. It is used daily and looks like it is original to the bike. It does the job of helping her get back up our numerous hills with ease. She is, however, adamant that she will still use her pedals until she has to use the motor – not just cruise around on the flat using the motor like others she has seen!

Fitting it went smoothly and was helped considerably by both your written instructions and the YouTube video. Both were valuable and it may be worth cross referencing each in the other.

Dealing with Solar Bike was a pleasure and helped me get a much better understanding of electric bikes and conversion kits. My wife has already thought of doing the same conversion to her folding bike which we take when we go on holidays but we might let her use this one for a while before getting another!

A few photos are attached. The solar modules on our roof provide all the power to charge the bike battery (and charge our house battery and run the house!).

I hope Solarbike does really well in its quest to get sustainable transport into Australia.

Thanks again, Warwick.