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How Can You Stay Legal with Australia’s E-Bike Laws? Discover the Vamos Amigo 2024 Solution

How Can You Stay Legal with Australia’s E-Bike Laws? Discover the Vamos Amigo 2024 Solution

Understanding e-bike regulations in Australia can be tricky, especially with different laws across states. However, at Vamos Bikes, we’ve created a solution to ensure that everyone can ride our ne...

Are E-bike Batteries Safe To Use? 

Are E-bike Batteries Safe To Use? 

E-bikes are becoming more and more popular as a greener way to get around. With this becoming more popular, arise more concerns about e-bike batteries. There’s been a fair bit of worry about wheth...

How My Vamos Electric Bike Makes Me Money

How My Vamos Electric Bike Makes Me Money

I’ve heard that many people opt to sell their cars after investing in a Vamos electric bike. I chose to keep mine and rent it out. By that I’m creating an additional passive income stream I couldn...

How powered can an electric bike be in NSW

NSW Changes the Legal Power Output of Electric Bikes to 500W

As of 2023, New South Wales (NSW) has taken a great step forward in the e-bike world by increasing the legal continuous power limit allowed for electric bicycles from 250W to 500W. How might this ...

How To Choose The Right E-Bike

How To Choose The Right E-Bike

The Basics of the E-bike and what to look for Buying anything in the 21st century can seem a little daunting and e-bikes are no different. This article breaks down the key features of a modern e-b...

Electric Bikes and the Environment

Electric Bikes and the Environment

Understanding the Environmental Impact of E-Bikes At Vamos Bikes we get a lot of questions from customers about whether electric bikes are environmentally friendly. The short answer is yes, but we...

Do You Really Need a Car Living in Sydney or Any Major City?

Do You Really Need a Car Living in Sydney or Any Major City?

Unless a car is essential for your work, foregoing your four wheeler could provide a large boost to your household budget. Comparethemarket.com.au comparison website has displayed that the average...

An Ode To My Ebike

An Ode To My Ebike

Mornings used to be a bit of an issue for me. I would wake up, drag myself into the shower and wonder whether I’d be exhausted all day. I’d doze off on the bus to work and be woken up at the end o...

Helmet Laws

What's The Go With Australia and Its Helmet Laws?

Australia has always been under scrutiny for not having much trust in it’s kind, especially in New South Wales which is known by many as the “nanny state” (a strict Nanny at that!). This is expres...

What Are The Laws In Australia About Electric Bikes

What Are the Laws in Australia About Electric Bikes?

What is the law?  In Australia, the laws regarding e-bikes are constantly changing. However, generally speaking, they are becoming more relaxed. Increasingly higher wattage bikes are being allowed...

Do Electric Bikes Benefit The Environment

Do Electric Bikes Benefit the Environment?

A very common question we get asked is do electric bikes benefit the environment? It seems now that we are all becoming aware that we have to take more care for the  world we live in and doing thi...

Common Beliefs About About Electric Bikes Unraveled

Common Beliefs About Electric Bikes Unraveled

Aren’t e-bikes just for fat/lazy/old people? It is a common misconception that you ride an electric bike because you have something that physically disadvantages from riding a normal push bike, bu...