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This isn't always true. Whilst defensive driving will help to avoid mitigate most accidents sometimes you can drive as defensively as you can and some idiot will still hit you. When some knob head texting on his phone ran into the back of my father in law's car last year as he and my kids...

We know. I was answering the question as to what would have happened had he been on a non-electric bike.

Wouldn't they have had to go with 'furious' cycling or similar Victorian offence? Unless it was so bad as to be straight up manslaughter.

The problem is that you don't just emergency stop whenever a pedestrian steps off a kerb in a busy town or city, especially on a bike and especially if you don't know what is behind you. Loads of pedestrians step off kerbs having seen you coming in the middle of he road with the intention of...

I think she comes out at such an angle to him that he would need to catch her in his peripheral vision to spot her approach. We'd like to think we'd spot a pedestrian who just stepped off like that (and I once did when in my car for a girl on a bike who launched herself at 90 degrees off a...

Yes I think it's the excess speed (assuming they can prove it) that will be his main difficulty. That and the fact he's a scroat who rides an illegal ebike and fails to stop when he seriously injures someone.

Stopping distance doesn't matter in the instant case as much as there was so little time to react. She walked quickly out into the traffic with no warning. The stopping distance of an average car at 20mph is 12 metres. What do we think the stopping distance of an ebike, at 30mph, would be? I...

True - lets say 100kg in total then. It's 9000N. Still less than a fifth of the force from a 20mph mini. Obviously and sadly 9kN is enough to kill someone but it's still not generally as dangerous as 51kN. Looking at the video, if he'd been driving a mini at 20mph and she had walked straight...

It's not a 'get out of my way' scenario at all. That would be an appropriate critique of the cyclist who recently tried to plough through a gaggle of pedestrians beeping his airhorn and got stung for £100k of costs when he hit one. In this scenario she walked out alone against the lights...

Dalston vid |(warning shows moment of contact)

I think that is a little sweeping. He was in the wrong driving an e-moped without registration, but bikes can and do go faster then 15mph on commutes. Whether or not he lacked due diligence is an open question, especially now we've seen the video. He is absolutely wrong for leaving the scene and...

I have to say, having seen the video, that, for a moped, the vehicle didn't seem to be driven particularly aggressively. He was in the middle of the road, not near the edge, there were no other pedestrians in it, so no particular reason for him to slow down/anticipate an issue and she just...

Overpowered bike = Illegal uninsured moped.

Well my weight plus full panniers means my Cube (Bosch mid-drive) carries over 100kg. It certainly feels incredibly sturdy. I think they are rated at 115kg or 160kg (structural with trailer) but I'd imagine you get a 20% tolerance on those figures. The trapeze is a good compromise between...

Can't you ship it home by sea? Might take a few weeks but it would turn up eventually. Otherwise you could look at seeing if you can hire a battery - maybe a place that rents out ebikes might have one it would be prepared to hire out in the off season...or can't you just hire an ebike whilst...

Is one of the differences on a hub bike a narrower bracketing of assist levels? The Bosch ones are something like 40/100/200/300%.

"E-bike conformity is not a criminal matter and a warrant cannot be obtained for this civil matter." There could be relevant criminal offences - driving on a public highway whilst uninsured is definitely a criminal matter for example - but it's not an indictable (Crown Court) offence, so the...

"The journey is almost all flat (London) and I'll probably use it for leisure on the weekend (no more than 10 miles each way). " You say that you're 62kg. Do you have health issues? If not why do you need an e-bike? Something like this is much lighter (9kg!), cheaper, much faster on flat...

That looks like a lovely bike and good value at £2500. The 4th Gen CX is zero resist I think, which takes away the biggest advantage the ALP had over the old CX motors. It it is much harder to dongle, but that isn't usually important on a Tourer. If you are going to go up really steep hills...

It's not exactly a budget bike, although it's very nice. If you want German buld quality on a budget for Touring type bikes then Cubes are very good value. You can pick up something like this for less than £2k Cube Reaction If you can manage with a Tourer rather than an e-MTB then the ALP...