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Switzerland is not in the UK and can insist. But we can use the health systems of other EU countries by obtaining a European Health Insurance Card. Most of the British in Spain are retired and make a lot of use of the Spanish health services. The high tech industries are having a lot of...

Not many living on state benefits. The benefits the Tories would like to withdraw from them are in work benefits like tax credits and child benefit. If, as is the case with a few, child benefit is paid to a mother of a child living outside the UK then withdrawing it is fair enough. But all in...

So are you implying that all those eastern Europeans are living on our benefits? That would be complete nonsense since most of them work hard and contribute to the economy. In fact most of the infrastructure we rely on like the NHS is heavily staffed by immigrants and would collapse without...

Point is no insurance, household or pedelec, will be valid if the bike is illegal. Which this bike is by a country mile. The copper who stopped him was clearly unaware of the law because if he was he could have nicked him and he would have been prosecuted and lost his licence. If he has one...

I don’t know why you assumed I was referring to you in my post. I made my comments general for a reason. But it seems to me that most of the anti EU crowd are the kind of people who Trump appeals to in the US. That is people who feel alienated by the present and who believe that their countries...

It also means paying into the EU in order to gain access to the single market as Norway has to do. As well as having to accept EU law without any say in forming it. All this was posted further up the thread. It seems to me that most anti EU people won’t face reality, and seem to believe that...

I was under the impression that we already could. We can have throttles if our government approves them. But they won’t.

We all know that the whole thing is a sham to unite the Tory party which is split down the middle on Europe. Dave’s playbook is Wilsons seventies one even down to now allowing ministers to take different sides and for the same reasons. Party unity. The ‘renegotiation’ will - assuming the new...

The thing is that there is no risk to them. Not even from trading standards for misleading advertising when another dealer put them on their case. It isn’t illegal to sell them only to use them…. Technically they may be liable when they allow a test ride. As I wrote before do a search here. All...

Bit of a red rag to a bull for KTM of this forum who is the importer. KTM do sell S pedelecs but he won’t sell any in the UK unless the buyer can prove he has legal usage of private land without any public access. Lots of threads on this topic here if you want a read. Some of them quite...

“ I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.” What then? Answers on the back of an envelope when all the swivel eyed Europhobe politicians contradict each other, and anyway couldn’t organise a p*ss up at a free bar. BTW Norway pays a large amount of its budget to the EU for them to...

No is the answer. Look up the threads where a couple of people have registered similar self build bikes and they had to make them into electric mopeds. Moped lights, wheels you name it. Spedelecs are not legal in the UK and cannot be registered or used legally. Something which 50 Cycles should...

No it’s because the wealthy Greek elites are mobile and international and don’t see why they should pay their taxes in Greece. That buy up Knightsbridge instead. Meanwhile their corruption and the corruption of Greek governments who they were hand on glove with destroyed the economy. Helped by...

I read the piece on the BBC site and all those drunks buying cars that can kill pedestrians and cyclists when they lose their driving licences is not one I would like to see here. I know many disqualified drivers buy pedelecs but cars, even small cars like these can do a lot more damage...

Bit of a tricky tightrope act to pull off though. How do you publicise the improvements - or in other words fixes - in a new motor, and not at the same time acknowledge that the previous generation of motor had problems? By weasel words like those of course. I thought they would have quietly...

But most simple rotation sensor bikes give the full power set on the handlebar control just by turning the pedals without any effort anyway. So if the pedals are to be turned why is a throttle needed? I can see the sense in a throttle for a rotation sensor controlled motor with a pedal lag for...

…..and a happy new year to all our members and readers.

You do seem to have an exaggerated faith in the law. Getting the judgement can be the easy part but then you have to enforce the judgement. All a lot of hassle when all you wanted was a bike which would do what you had paid for, and keep on doing it for a few years, hopefully reliably. As to...

That is certainly what users like oriteroom are concerned about. He has two, and if you read his posts he is trying to put some milage on the other one in case he does get stuck. Now I’m glad you’re pretty sure they would replace a motor out of warranty, but I wonder what you base your...

No I don’t think there is any hounding going on here. I’ve been a customer of 50 Cycles and have no complaints about them. I had a battery failure which was replaced without quibble even if I had to travel a long way to pick it up. However I would not buy an Impulse 11 after reading of several...