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But it hasn't even crossed the mainland EU, out of the 27 countries only accepted in Germany, Denmark and with restrictions in The Netherlands. France was intending to join in but chickened out when The Netherlands hit big public acceptance problems with S-pedelecs. I'm sure that would apply...

I've been convinced for decades that this is the case. Nothing else can account for some of those who have held that office. .

Shows how far I go back, living on the London fringe I used to give goodies like carrots to our milkman's horse. Not the whole story, the milk float delivered cost of milk today is about 50% higher than supermarket milk and their other groceries like butter and bread equally dearer. Most...

That is from January 2024, a year ago!!!! .

A number of things have damaged the image of electric transport, leading to so many people now having such a negative view. The premature launch of e-cars with ridiculous high prices, low top speeds and pathetically poor ranges, circa 70 miles but even that only in favourable conditions. Then...

I didn't !!!! I expressly said "illegal e-bikes used for deliveries". I made no mention of all the other types of vehicle in use for that purpose. .

Perfectly true. Sadly though it hides other bitter truths: The illegal e-bikes used for delivery, maybe 10% or less of the total, often work all the time, day and night. As @saneagle remarked about the centre of cities and towns like the North Croydon he exampled with photos, we see them all...

A throttle cannot be essential, our "safety" bicycles have managed without one for some 140 years. The fundamental of an assisted bicycle in law is that it must remain a bicycle to be free of motor vehicle law. And bicycle motion is only by pedalling. That is the rationale behind the ban on...

As said, tap the l/h axle end to drive the whole innards out of the hub shell in one piece. That's what I did to replace the whole innards when my Nexus 5 failed, buying another, knocking out its inner and installing it in my existing hub shell. .

The biggest fuss would be from the moped interests. They are well aware of the true EAPC power situation but happy so long as it is presented as 250 watts, which is why they agreed to it originally. .

You can legally have throttle from a standing start on any EAPC, but only up to 4mph to get you rolling. After that the power has to be maintained by pedalling. .

And once again people wanting more power, so the scooters from Vespa, Lambretta etcetera quickly killed off the assisted bicycle from the mid 1950s! I'm aware of those early ones you illustrated but discount them since few were still realistically usable as bicycles, and so many used a clumsy...

Lots of corrections necessary. EAPC law is modern (6th April 2015) and not related to IC engines in any way. All petrol assisted bicycles always had to be registered as motorcycles and mostly ridden with a full motor cycles licence, there was no separate assisted bicycle law back then. You...

Improvement or mitigation don't solve the problem, which is that our development of the mind, seemingly beyond limits, can only end one way, self destruction. The danger with this is that we take all other life with us. Best get rid of the cause first. .

Best prospect for the future of biology on this planet that I've seen in many years, terminating the worst species of all by far, the only one that seriously threatens all other life. .

It is with Li-ion batteries, thanks to the fact they can spontaneously erupt due to cell chemical action that isn't related to them being either used or charged. .

Giving wasn't what I was implying, indeed it's giving to the third world that has often created their problems. But in many cases where they don't have a very long history of advancement and civilisation, as China has had for example, they do need help or guidance to eventually attain the...

Absolutely. Indeed I go as far as to say it is our only real problem Affluence is the secret. It's easily seen that as a people get more affluent and their living standards rise, their birth rate falls dramatically and the breeding like rabbits stops. Indeed the wealthier countries often...

The problem once again is, what defines a bicycle and separates it from a motor vehicle? The objective was to provide assistance for cycling, not replace cycling, so from the outset here in Europe and elsewhere it was decided that was the need to pedal to make progress. Therefore pedalling was...

Thanks. I didn't know they'd finally given into the EU pressure that had been upon them for years. Apparently after all the abuse publicity they changed it from 12 to 18 in 2013, from the youngest to the oldest in the EU. .