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Fully agree on both your points. I'm a heretic where assisted bikes are concerned. Despite an association with them in the trade from my youth I never wanted one, always liking riding good bicycles far too much. I was nearly 70 when I bought my first EAPC and then it was only to help hauling...

I've already said, recognising the high demand which isn't going to go away, plus the fact that the change has long been de facto anyway and we are obviously never going to get the policing to stop that. History proves it, the rise from 200 watts to 250 watts happened accidentally without...

No it isn't, since as well as exemption (J) there is also exemption (b) Vehicles exclusively intended for the handicapped and exemption (k) providing for low seating points on LIe bicycle based vehicles, so a choice of options And anyway claims of such discrimination are too often unrealistic...

But not as EAPCs. Although the DfT say they "consider" them as EAPCs, they are not. They are no longer only electric assisted when they can be driven by throttle alone, and the fact of Type Approval re-specifies them as motor vehicles in law. Just excused the bureaucracy in GB alone. But...

Yes it's 24 hours Tony. .

Exactly. Who is really to blame? Surely it's as much we in the West for getting them to do our dirty work on the cheap while claiming all manner of false "green" credentials? The solution is in our hands, producing the things we need in an environmentally responsible way, instead of hiding...

Good to see you back Danidl, hope you are in good health. .

I've already explained at length with three examples, why can't you understand them? Such ministerial change can only follow such as widespread discussion, consultation and extensive acceptance of the principle, and even then the change is only a partial permission, not a change in the law...

No, no, no, there is no such consultation so I don't know what you are speaking of. There is consideration being given to changing the law to allow 500 watts and fully acting throttles, but that would have to be with new law replacing the existing 1983 regulation and the 2015 parliamentary...

Sorry, I missed this response from you. No, I'm not suggesting that at all. If you reread my post you will see that for such substansive changes there would have to be precedent in discussion about the subject making it already well understood and appreciated. Such as a consultation or a...

Its application can be. An EAPC is limited to a rated maximum of 48 volts by the low voltage directive. That battery is labelled 52 volts, which is effectively the claimed rating, so illegal on an EU or UK pedelec. However 48volt batteries all charge to 52 volts maximum anyway, so only the...

Dubai is in the desert: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/dubai-floods-uae-rainfall-weather-forecast .

EU manufactured pedelecs don't normally have brake cutouts so that's far from unusual. Brake cutouts usually only appear on e-bikes with throttles, mainly Oriental sourced. Negligence lawsuit? No chance of that happening. .

My skys often look like that, being in the London Airports complex of flight paths. Here's some trails lit at sunset:

Which made me the perfect customer for my Leaf in 2018: Already in my eighth decade of life. Having the surplus money which I can't take with me after death. Having no children to leave it to. And the proven reliable Leaf and battery a car for life at my age, making depreciation...

Of course they don't, using a meter you can't find a fault that is no longer there. Hopefully it won't be an intermittent fault that returns, but if it does you'll then be able to trace it with a meter. Meanwhile it's probably a good idea to give it a little charge once a month rather than...

Or the power of prayer? When Gray put it back on the bike the last time he was probably unwittingly thinking "Please God let it work this time". And it did. :D ,

Of course they are not being honest or good, this proposal has nothing whatsoever to do with promoting pedelec use. The intention is what it has been ever since the outset, when they introduced the e-scooter trial, to include e-scooters in with pedelec legislation in a legal short cut. Hence...

That is disingenuous, you know that you have had a number of negative reactions from members and none positive. We've clearlyindicated that we are not interested and cannot see any point in you posting these accounts. Putting it bluntly, you are in the wrong place for such personal and...

No risk of that happening while so many politicians drive, including those in the House of Lords. Not to mention our ever ageing royalty who frequently drive themselves. .