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It isn't impossible that we might in the end have to go down the "miss-sold" route to get the retailer to take them back. We are both 100% sure that we were never at any time during the sale told that these types of bikes, either were, or were going to be illegal soon in N.I. During our 33 years...

More sad than a joke for us who are no longer able to cycle on a conventional bike but I know what you mean.

In keeping with all things over here being stupid and complicated our local snails are occasionally so confused they have a tendency to go backwards for no apparent reason.

I really don't want to go down this road so to speak with registration etc because we are still effectively part of the UK and deserve to have the same regulations. My latest understanding is that something heavy legal wise is being commenced and I will keep you all updated as it blunders along...

I have had every licence known to man since 1965 including a well used Class One HGV licence and I have no intentions of looking for points as I have never had any. When my paper licence was returned for a plastic one a few years back the motorcycle section was "omitted" apparently due to an...

Hmm - and if you are a cyclist only and don't drive, therefore no licence and subsequently disqualified from what - cycling on a conventional push bike perhaps? This gets worse by the day. Has the holiday season in Stormont finished yet - or is it the pantomime season already?

Have that video on favourites. The audience were proper shocked, some of them thinking that the sound of rear wheel starter engine was the bike! Brilliant when the 6 fired up. Brief shot of the genius Erv Kanemoto in the last few seconds. There is also a clip (but I have lost it) of Mick Grant...

Now you have done it and got me back to Oliver's Mount when Rob Iannucci brought a Honda 6, an MV 3 and an ex Pasolini Benelli 4, all genuine ex works bikes fettled by Nobby Clark. Mick Grant was involved and I think Dave Roper. The sound of those around that parkland was pure music to old folk...

Blimey don't get me started on Honda and their 125cc five cylinder racer of the mid sixties revving to an astonishing 22,000 rpm and 130+ mph. I still have the memories of that sound. Sorry I think I might have drifted onto the wrong forum.

I think something nearly went seriously wrong there - I was trying to reply to Tommie to say that an NSU Quickly was my Dad's method of transport for some years and I was in awe of it as a 9 year old.

Has this ever surfaced anywhere in mass production?

Blimey that brings back memories but a LOT more busy than when we have done that route. The section between Holywood and Helens Bay has a small piece which is impossible for cycling. Walking, pushing and struggling up a hideous unstable bank. Once attempted never forgotten but the remainder is...

John Hanna, five minutes from where we live. Good shout Danidl. Next time you are in Lisburn give me a call by whatever means and we can have lunch. Been over on the ferry the weekend it opened but sadly unable to bring the bikes. Drive to Carlingford for lunch as usual. Excellent day as...

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We won't be doing the registering nightmare. I won't be applying for a licence as I had one since 1966 and used it riding 170 mph superbikes for over 30 years. I have a retired friend from the MOT (when it was in Lislea Drive for those who remember) and he says they will have to be issued with...

OK guys, I have to ask. Bear with me. Scenario. We are both out on our bikes. Plod senses a collar so stops us. We switch off the motor with two pushes on a thumb rocker switch on the handlebars unseen. How could plod prove a motor was being used prior to the stop? We would say that because...

That form makes me feel sick. It is a minefield of complexities.

With proper respect to all you "competitive" boys I can say that the handful of e-bike users we have encountered in the last two years have been like ourselves and into our sixties with health issues. We saw little or nothing in the way of poor behaviour on e-bikes but again at the risk of the...

Agree but a prosecution would possibly only happen if there was an accident involving a member of the public and that would send out all the wrong signals. I have said (thought) all along that a "test case" would provide a LOT of answers. Since the "ban" began I have never seen an e-bike in use...