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I agree, but I fear this is a long lost battle. We have many thousands of miles of road with some 45 million various vehicles jam packing them with traffic. We have many thousands of miles of pavements, over 90% empty all the time since so many appear to have lost the use of their legs and...

Only if they needed no L plates, no two part driving licence, no third party insurance, no CBT and no helmet compulsion. It's the total of all those things that prevent popularising two wheel use widely enough. That is why people are illegally mopeding around on e-scooters. They'll happily...

It's more than a cosmetic change though. At the outset of the hire e-scooter trial they said they they wanted to keep with their common 350 watts rating, necessary without pedal assistance, and combine them with assisted bicycles. So obviously that meant an increase in pedelec power and full...

No I think they are making it quite clear that EAPC's are changing to 500 watts with throttle if this is adopted. They wont have more power than speed pedelecs though, since they already have the 500 watt limit, changed to that some years ago. That's for sure, though they might respond by...

They've already taken care of that by saying at the outset that the e-scooters can have 350 watts for the trial, the same as in the USA and Europe. So I don't think power was the issue, as I said, it's the throttle that was the stumbling block since they wanted to include e-scooters into EAPC...

The real problem with the proposal is the throttle, not the power increase. Without a throttle in existing law the machine remains a pedelec and an EAPC, never an e-bike (motor driven bicycle). With a fully acting throttle it is no longer a pedelec or EAPC, despite the DfT saying it will...

Don't worry, it will. There are no unintended consequences. This change is merely an adjustment to the existing overall position within Great Britain, but not Northern Ireland. We could have had all this internally with Europe's blessing since the first introduction of EU law, if the DfT had...

It's not maximum power though: Proposed changes The government proposes 2 changes to existing regulations: to amend the legal definition of how EAPCs are classified so that the maximum continuous rated power of the electric motor must not exceed 500 watts instead of 250 watts as set out in the...

Most likely failing to think at all about what he was doing. A hospital blood test will reveal if alcohol or drugs were involved. .

Crash into an e-bike without lights at 1.17am on an unlit motorway. Not much of an investigation needed. .

Nigelbb is/was an A & E doctor in a Northern Ireland hospital. .

Oh dear, any attempt to discredit a simple inconvenient fact! What I posted then proved beyond any doubt that statements that the great majority of ICU covid patents had not been vaccinated were bunkum, which wouldn't be altered by inclusion of a few patients with such a test. .

An answer posted on 29th December 2021: https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/brexit-for-once-some-facts.24369/post-638688 .

I wouldn't argue with any of that, quite obviously the vaccine had a medicinal value in considerably lessening the ill effects of Covid infection, and I posted as such then while criticising some other aspects. But the government's own data which said that, also inconveniently proved that...

You are so blinkered by your blind acceptance of all the government said that it isn't worth trying to argue with you, no matter what proofs I have. Even the government's own excellent measurement tool proved that the claims for the efficacy of the viruses were wildly exaggerated and also that...

I think you should re-read my post. That is what I said how they passed responsibility to us. As Woosh confirmed, I isolated, and in addition ignored some of the governments more idiotic compulsory guidance to make myself even more safe. Such utter stupidity as ordering us to exercise only...

Interesting, and I don't find it surprising. From the earliest days of the vaccines being applied I was critical of them, feeling it was far to premature. My view on dealing with new and unknown pandemics is to only take the most obvious precautions of masking, separation and the basics of...

Actually it is what happened, as your sentence confirms. They shifted the burden onto us to deal with Covid with those restrictions. Queuing with two metre gaps, exercising in restricted local areas, having to go to all sorts of inconvenient places to get tests and jabs, while all they did...

Attenborough was primarily speaking of Arctic polar ice, which your above link confirms is very real. I trust that, and I also trust the Inuits who live there and are no longer able to hunt the sea ice as effectively as they've done for many past centuries. Polar Bears are similarly affected...

The first of these nucear icebreakers was in 1957, before there was today's awareness of the impending threat of global warming and icecap melt. In any case the nuclear aspect has nothing to do with any supposed inadequacies of diesel power. It is to allow winter long duty without having to...