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As I've said, assisted cycling is a failed concept, not an opinion but fact for legal assisted bikes. The concept is assistance for those who can no longer always cycle for various reasons. One of the most common limitations is inability to keep pedalling continuously for a variety of...

As far as I'm concerned assisted cycling is a failed concept, so they are all bad. That's why despite contact with the subject through my cycling life, I didn't buy one until I was nearly 70, only to confirm I didn't really like them anyway, crank or hub motor. My best advice is to cycle on...

Definitely yes. The sooner we and indeed Europe cut off from the USA and isolate them, the better. Then we can get on with properly integrating Europe instead of driving Russia into China's arms and looking for more wars to create. .

Of course not, I knew that before I bought mine long ago,but it didn't matter since I had no intention of doing such mileages. I don't need all these silly videos stating the obvious that you and others post, because I really do know the subject and what is relevant. Among which is that hardly...

Not relevant to the Ami I commented on and which was illustrated in your post. I don't watch these idiotic anti EV videos. But if you are referring to my seven year old Leaf, of course it hasn't reached 314,000 miles. At that almost 45,000 a year it's an unsuitable car for that sort of...

I posted long ago that the Ami battery will only last a couple of years and its not a fair comparison with other e-car batteries. It stands to reason, it's only 5kW with only local range capability so can need almost daily full charging and often being almost emptied. Compare that to my Leaf...

My guidance post was aimed at amateur builds though, since professional builds by suppliers such as yourself are really a small scale form of manufacturing. .

I'm confident that neither the police nor the Crown Prosecution Service would consider it worthwhile, however serious the case. That has been the practice in cases of death involving "electric" bikes to date, preferring the least serious charge aimed at the rider's behaviour rather than the...

Conversion status is known and not of uncertain status. As I've explained in my comprehensive post on EAPC law, they were subject to Single Vehicle Approval (SVA), now known as Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA). Among many others this covers Amateur Built Vehicles. This means that to be...

Nonsense. The link you provide leads to: The Building (Local Authority Charges) Regulations 2010 (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/404/contents/made) You've been given the correct source for EAPC advice by Saneagle above. If you want to look at some of the amendment detail of the...

As long as walk assist is only applied by a fail safe method such as Off if released, it isn't an EAPC problem. Walking with such a vehicle if its weight is below 400 kilos is covered by the Pedestrian Controlled Vehicle regulation, requiring no licence or special permission, and that speed...

At last, only twenty-one and a quarter years too late. .

Untrue. The remainder of the world has it in their power to solve the problem, simply by controlling our rabid consumption. It is our problem of our own creation, not China's. The vast bulk of the coal is used to answer our demands, over a third of the Chinese still live rural lives...

They have just over 20 times our UK population so their emissions are just over 1.5 times ours, not 31 times. Precisely, so it's our coal consumption, exported. They've made staggering progress with renewables in recent years, just think how bad their sitution was in 2008 when they had to...

Variables. The population of Britain in 764 was under 1 million. And all those recent headlines were gross exaggeration, two snowflakes and the media gets hysterical. .

That's at present. I meant, as in the France I quoted, having national legality but local authority bans, back door bans killing them off where they are most used. .

We may end up with a back door ban. They were legal for a while in France, but now Paris where they were most used has totally banned them permanently. Our local authorities also have that power. .

Sorry David, you can't get away with that, cycle is far too vague a generic term. We cycle all manner of things. My bin men were around earlier cycling, recycling my household waste. The term EAPC says it all, Electric Assist Pedal Cycle, not Electric Assist Motor Cycle. .

It isn't snobbery, I've explained it many times. It is to keep the bicycle as a bicycle in law and in fact, despite the assistance, and not become any form of motor vehicle. And what defines a bicycle is that it must be pedalled to make progress. (As Matthew comments above) So an EAPCs's...

Agreed. I'm sure you'll remember the "Yes Minister" comedies on TV, so true to the reality. Civil Servants and ambitious Ministers don't make "courageous" decisions, and allowing motor assisted bicycles to be faster/more powerful/bigger are all courageous decisions. Truth be told, if the...