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  1. flecc

    Bike Repairs

    As Saneagle has said above, there is no ruling for or against throttles, only on whether pedalling is taking place to permit power, so no clarification on throttle use during pedalling is required. .
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    Why Ride Rad?

    So Eggrider is an "Off road switch", which is "Strictly Forbidden" to use the DfT's expressions. .
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Thatcher, May, Truss, now Mordaunt. When will they learn? Their recent male PMs are hopeless, their female ones to date even worse. .
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    I rode the first UK legal throttle Ebike

    No it doesn't, since it's 250-Watt LPM, a sub class of L1e-A with ministerial permission to be treated as a normal EAPC (pedelec). .
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    Prices of the electricity we use to charge

    Fully agreed, though I'm an electricity only customer.
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    Prices of the electricity we use to charge

    You've had it now though, Michael Gove will get you under his new catch-all definitions of extremism. .
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    Disabled cyclist; with one bad choice behind her, needs help with a new bike

    Indeed. It's why in their earlier form known as scooters (Vespa et al) they completely eliminated the add on motors for bicycles from the market. The main reason the latter and complete pedelecs ever returned was the advent of their bureacracy free form with electric assist motors. .
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    Disabled cyclist; with one bad choice behind her, needs help with a new bike

    Guerney has you on "Ignore", so he won't see your question or any of your posts past or present. He says he has me on ignore too. Why he thinks it's ok to comment adversely on someone or their products when they cannot reply to him I don't know. To me it is very ill mannered. I'm reporting...
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    Disabled cyclist; with one bad choice behind her, needs help with a new bike

    And from very long experience of similar inquiries in here, we know that the disabled rarely understand the limitations of physics, current technology and the regulations of bureacracy free electric assist bikes. They mean that they are only suitable for those who can still cycle normally but...
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    New figures reveal 11 deaths from e-bike fires in UK last year, as MPs call for tighter regulations

    One proven answer is to buy a pedelec and any subsequent batteries from the most highly regarded companies in respect of known battery lives, support and honouring warranties. They know that their reputation has taken years of hard work to build, but can be lost in a few seconds of poor...
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    Help! Dead Bike

    It is the Silver Fish 36 volt battery, Smarta is just a marketing brand name that never made anything. You can get the replacement battery on ebay for just over £150 complete with charger, but are you sure it is a working ebike before spending that? .
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    New figures reveal 11 deaths from e-bike fires in UK last year, as MPs call for tighter regulations

    They are, since the defects that lead to a cell under performing are intrinsically often a fire risk. The problem is that it is extremely difficult to produce consistently perfect lithium cells so there is a high reject rate. Take Tesla's current nightmare. They are at the top of the e-car...
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    Help! Dead Bike

    Depends which model. The Smarta ebike model I knew was also being sold as the Synergie Mistral in 2007/8 until that firm failed and Pedelecs member "Blew it" owned one. It has a brushed rear hub motor and a Silver Fish battery. This link is to Blewits post about it, with a photo. Those...
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    The Roaming Radrunner - The Sibson Surprise!

    Yes, I found it boring too, we aren't really a general Vlog platform. Not much point in promoting Rad Power class two mopeds here anyway, since with all sorts of legal and technical problems they're pulled right out of Europe to only trade in the USA now, closing their Netherlands office. .
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    Centre stand options..

    I only manage because the motor/controller combination on that earlier Ezee Quando is very powerful, able to sink 1000 watts despite a 250 watt legal rating. As A to B's review said, just sit on, twist the thottle and it flattens the hills. It even manages a standing start without any...
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    Centre stand options..

    34 tooth Megarange low sprocket, but don't forget this is a 20" wheel so always low geared anyway. One can end up with a rapid cadence just to catch up with the motor's 15mph. The 60 tooth means that I have a comfortable pedalling range from 4.2 mph at a 40 cadence in low gear, which would...
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    Centre stand options..

    It was a conversion from single speed to derailleur gears and with a huge 60 tooth chain ring. Those with the 20" wheels meaning a low bottom chainline, hence a fixed two leg stand fouling the chain whether stand up or down. Here's a side on photo taken during the conversion amd before the...
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    E-bike For a Child

    The added mass need not be large enough to make much difference, especially for the obesity epidemic kids whose added mass is greater than any pedelec! Definitely, they'd cycle much more so become more skilled as well as healthier. If she lets them cycle, assistance less than that which...
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    Centre stand options..

    My way of dealing with this loading and stability problem on a 20" wheel rear hub motor bike: The original stand was a twin leg one, this being needed to hold the chainwheel off the ground when the bike is folded in half, but that stand fouled the derailleur chainline. Also, with the...
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    E-bike For a Child

    There's far more seriously injured cyclists on the A & E programs on several channels. Last one I saw didn't have to wait for an ambulance, he'd collided with the back of one. And one adult case I saw a little while ago was so horrifically injured that even the case hardened female A & E...