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  1. flecc

    Prices of the electricity we use to charge

    You'll have to do better than that incoherent chump! So the car market, new and second hand, has been ruined for dealers! Of course it has, that is much of the political point of this change to EVs. The days of near universal car ownership are ending with the change to EVs that are many...
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    Prices of the electricity we use to charge

    Should anyone ever believe him? .
  3. flecc

    Which ebike is best to speed up commute, must be able to pedal at 30 km/h

    But the rider is part of the setting equipment so the allowance is also for their imperfection. :) .
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    Prices of the electricity we use to charge

    We are all different. I caught it in the first year's original infection in May. That didn't trouble me at all since I needed no medical attention whatsover, but I assumed it gave me some immunity since I missed both the Alpha (Kent) variant and the Delta variant, despite so many around me...
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    Changes to selling e-bikes, conversion kits and batteries on eBay.co.uk - No more private (personal) sales.

    Now that really is the best way of producing thick, jet black, known carcinogenic tar coatings on food. All barbecue invitations I get receive a "thanks, but no thanks" from me. I don't see the attraction of half raw, half burnt to a cinder food. .
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    Changes to selling e-bikes, conversion kits and batteries on eBay.co.uk - No more private (personal) sales.

    Never had any such problems and I've been cooking for myself and sometimes others for 64 years. The only element failure experienced was one early radiant ring, but I soon got rid of the radiant ring cooker anyway. .
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    Changes to selling e-bikes, conversion kits and batteries on eBay.co.uk - No more private (personal) sales.

    No. Cooking with an electric hob is just a different set of skills that I've been using for 56 years now, at first with radiant ring but soon changing to ceramic hob for the ease of cleaning. If it really is found difficult, there's always the option of an induction hob with suitable pans...
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    Changes to selling e-bikes, conversion kits and batteries on eBay.co.uk - No more private (personal) sales.

    And here in the London Borough of Croydon we were one of the last to convert. But I didn't wait for it to happen. A year earlier in 1970 I put myself 55 years ahead of the government by converting entirely to electric and had the gas meter ripped out. .
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    Changes to selling e-bikes, conversion kits and batteries on eBay.co.uk - No more private (personal) sales.

    That's nothing. When I first moved to my present home we still had so called Town Gas, gas baked from coal, converting it to coke, That gas was just as capable of blowing the front wall from our buildings, it was also lethal to breathe and a very popular method of committing suicide: "Coal...
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    This extract from a government site may be useful to you. It is what our Grandfather Rights were based upon: 2. Is there some leeway for in-scope EAPC models that were in stock or on sale prior to 1 January 2016? Yes. We believe that in-scope EAPC without type approval can continue to be sold...
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    Yes, considered entirely legal in British law since they are from before 1st January 2016 and have "Grandfather Rights", the general ruling that laws cannot be backdated to before they are passed into law. .
  12. flecc

    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    In Great Britain it is the law, see this link Official government advice pages are generally useless, no court will accept that they say. .
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    That is a very big story to be written. But in a nutshell, as part of the adoption of the EU EAPC law we were lawfully ordered by the EU to cancel all conflicting domestic legislation and our 1983 regulation conflicted in almost every possible way. The DfT failed to do the latter. But of...
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    The Two and Three Wheeled Motor Vehicles Type Approval regulation 168/2013 contains some exemptions from being classified as motor vehicles, including this one for EAPCs which thus remain bicycles in law: *** (h) pedal cycles with pedal assistance which are equipped with an auxiliary electric...
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    The police do not and cannot make the law, so challenge them to produce such a law. If they can find someone knowledgeable enough, they'll only find that such a throttle is permitted, not banned. That is in this technical regulation: EN 15194:2009 (E) 13 4.2.4.3 Start up assistance mode...
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    Exactly, a throttle law doesn't exist for the police to enforce, so why would you need a defence? .
  17. flecc

    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    It appears to be completely right. The problem is convincing the police that throttles are not illegal in themselves, only if they are illegally used at any time, i.e. over 6kph without pedalling. .
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    The law says nothing at all about throttles and never has done. This is the exemption that allows EAPCs to remain bicycles in law and not motor vehicles: (h) pedal cycles with pedal assistance which are equipped with an auxiliary electric motor having a maximum continuous rated power of less...
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    I haven't said or implied anything like that. Throttles on EAPCs are not illegal anyway, they can only become illegal if they can operate without pedalling above 6 kph / 4 mph. .
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    Legal EBIKE LOOPHOLES

    It doesn't, that is why I referred to "stretching" the walk assist law. .