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Private e-scooters are illegal in a lot of places, but little seems to be done to stop them being used. So if a 'license' is required how likely is it that its enforced ?

If the forks on my bike are a bit stiff, can you treat them ?

It seems quite common that people who do bad stuff express 'remorse' ----- when caught.

What type of blank do you have ?

Indeed. But in retrospect, I was forgetting how readily some are prepared to lie to the Police etc, as in; Policeman: "did you deliberately set the cut off speed above the legal limit ?" Deceitful cyclist: "No officer, it must have been an imperfection on my part"

Whilst the 'guidelines' are that you wont be prosecuted unless you exceed the legal limit +10%, I doubt they are saying that you can never be prosecuted for exceeding the legal limit. Say you have an accident and the Police actually check your bike and see that you have set the cutoff to...

Well for road legal UK use, the motor should stop giving assistance once you exceed 25kmph. So if your looking for a eBike that 'I can pedal quickly (>25 km/h)' then most all of them will do that if you put in the effort when the motor stops providing assistance.

Indeed, and unless they subscribe to Amazon Prime, they would not have free delivery.

So if your on Personal Independent Payments, is that a legal loophole around some of the eBike regulations ?

And several 'journeys' a day apparently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly29m5rrd4o The guy was interviewed on Radio 4 Today, this morning.

Lots of cycle mudguards have a protector covering the front edge of the mudguard. Even the plastic ones on my eMountainBike has them, maybe not so important for plastic mudguards but a definite safety feature for metal mudguards.

I beleive the policy for electric bikes is the same as it is for vehicles; https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/legal/speeding-fines/#am-i-allowed-a-10-leeway-of-the-speed-limit

Unfortunately the (probably) illegal use of eBikes by Delivery riders is very visible to the public. Every time I go out on my bike I will see plenty of Delivery riders, no pedaling and throttle only and going way faster than 15.5mph. And self converted bikes apparently held together by gaffa...

As its been made so easy to de-restrict, then maybe the seller\promoter fully expects riders to do so.

Indeed. As well as comments from Sir Iain Duncan Smith who seemed disappointment that the changes the Conservatives were going to introduce for cycling offenses were abandoned because of the election, see the '5. Establishing new offences' section in the document below...

10, maybe even 5 years ago I was happy enough using my Brompton, originally bought for commuting, for environmentally friendly local trips. The significant advantage of the Brompton is that you don't have to leave it outside shops\doctor etc to be nicked, it folds real small and rolls around so...

Are you using the bike in the UK ?

Agreed. And I doubt the British workers at Brompton would be prepared to take a massive pay cut to make the bikes cheaper.

On my DIY converted eBrompton, I dumped the 3 speed Sturmey Archer hub gear and set up for 3 cogs on the rear derailleur shifter. This save a lot of weight. These 3 gears are plenty and for Urban use, I almost never shift it out of top gear, the motor takes up the slack on most all hills.