Posts by Maurice Wells
Trade-in offer for owners of Magnum e-bikes
Did we sell you a Magnum e-bike? We’re pre-empting a trade-in offer to you, due to spare parts availability getting tighter This being my 15th year of selling e-bikes, there’s one unavoidable fact – the more time that passes since a bike was ‘current’, the harder it is to get parts. In this respect, Magnum…
Read MoreTravelling with your e-bike on long distance buses in Aotearoa New Zealand
First hand guide to travelling Aotearoa with bikes and buses
Read MoreUniversity of Auckland/Waipapa Taumata Rau Partnership with Ebike Team
Staff of the University of Auckland have access to benefits when purchasing electric bicycles from the Electric Bike Team. We are offering $300 off our range of eZee electric bicycles and $150 off all other electric bicycles in our vast range in store. To take advantage of this offer, simply visit or get in touch…
Read MoreA family bike adventure with Te Huia train
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, as the saying goes. That’s certainly been the case for us moving from Sydney to Aotearoa and finding that there’s almost no train services with which to combine bike travels. NSW is not exactly a world leader for interregional public transport, but the options for bike…
Read MoreCargo Bike World launch at EBT – Feb 10, 2024
Presenting “Cargo Bike World” – cargo bikes hand made in Christchurch by Pete Thornton! Launching at the Electric Bike Team at 29 East Street Auckland at 5pm, Saturday February 10th. A culmination of decades of bicycle industry experience, Pete is bringing his creations to the world. Beautiful cargo bikes built to last – repairable, practical…
Read MoreSailing adventure with a Brompton side
After completing this trip, my mum reminded me of something I’d forgotten. When we moved to Auckland from Sydney in 2015, I’d told her that I aimed to do two things that were relevant to our new home: learn te reo Māori and learn to sail. Well, one of those two things had been working…
Read MoreEBT Timber Trail team trip – ride report
Continuing our Matariki tradition of a team trip away into a second year, the team went for a weekend away to ride the Timber Trail in the Pureora forest. There were many contenders for where to see in the new year – would it be in Northland, on the Pou Herenga Tai – Twin Coasts…
Read MoreE-bikes gain exemption from Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) in NZ – a.k.a. ‘half price e-bikes!’
Quietly gaining the odd small headline in early 2023 is a gamechanger for anyone interested in an electric bicycle for getting to work. Deloitte has written an excellent summary on the technical accounting considerations. Electric bicycles (and scooters and public transport) are no longer considered a fringe benefit in NZ law and as such, are…
Read MoreConsumer Magazine bike reviews 2022
The new Consumer reviews are out and Moustache has once again topped the class not only with the reviewers but in the customer surveys of satisfaction with their e-bikes. Paid up members of Consumer (or purchasers of a one-off digital pass) can access all the review details and their handy, interactive comparison tools on their…
Read MoreEbike Team in The Listener (again)
We were delighted to be included in Russell Brown’s e-bike article in The Listener in June. It covered recent trends in the e-bike market in New Zealand with a focus on who is using them for transport and what sort of e-bikes that were riding. One thing has already changed in the two months since…
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