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Never had any such problems and I've been cooking for myself and sometimes others for 64 years. The only element failure experienced was one early radiant ring, but I soon got rid of the radiant ring cooker anyway. .

No. Cooking with an electric hob is just a different set of skills that I've been using for 56 years now, at first with radiant ring but soon changing to ceramic hob for the ease of cleaning. If it really is found difficult, there's always the option of an induction hob with suitable pans...

And here in the London Borough of Croydon we were one of the last to convert. But I didn't wait for it to happen. A year earlier in 1970 I put myself 55 years ahead of the government by converting entirely to electric and had the gas meter ripped out. .

That's nothing. When I first moved to my present home we still had so called Town Gas, gas baked from coal, converting it to coke, That gas was just as capable of blowing the front wall from our buildings, it was also lethal to breathe and a very popular method of committing suicide: "Coal...

This extract from a government site may be useful to you. It is what our Grandfather Rights were based upon: 2. Is there some leeway for in-scope EAPC models that were in stock or on sale prior to 1 January 2016? Yes. We believe that in-scope EAPC without type approval can continue to be sold...

Yes, considered entirely legal in British law since they are from before 1st January 2016 and have "Grandfather Rights", the general ruling that laws cannot be backdated to before they are passed into law. .

In Great Britain it is the law, see this link Official government advice pages are generally useless, no court will accept that they say. .

That is a very big story to be written. But in a nutshell, as part of the adoption of the EU EAPC law we were lawfully ordered by the EU to cancel all conflicting domestic legislation and our 1983 regulation conflicted in almost every possible way. The DfT failed to do the latter. But of...

The Two and Three Wheeled Motor Vehicles Type Approval regulation 168/2013 contains some exemptions from being classified as motor vehicles, including this one for EAPCs which thus remain bicycles in law: *** (h) pedal cycles with pedal assistance which are equipped with an auxiliary electric...

The police do not and cannot make the law, so challenge them to produce such a law. If they can find someone knowledgeable enough, they'll only find that such a throttle is permitted, not banned. That is in this technical regulation: EN 15194:2009 (E) 13 4.2.4.3 Start up assistance mode...

Exactly, a throttle law doesn't exist for the police to enforce, so why would you need a defence? .

It appears to be completely right. The problem is convincing the police that throttles are not illegal in themselves, only if they are illegally used at any time, i.e. over 6kph without pedalling. .

The law says nothing at all about throttles and never has done. This is the exemption that allows EAPCs to remain bicycles in law and not motor vehicles: (h) pedal cycles with pedal assistance which are equipped with an auxiliary electric motor having a maximum continuous rated power of less...

I haven't said or implied anything like that. Throttles on EAPCs are not illegal anyway, they can only become illegal if they can operate without pedalling above 6 kph / 4 mph. .

It doesn't, that is why I referred to "stretching" the walk assist law. .

I took Andy's meaning to be as he explained, at 15.5 mph. This whole issue has become a terrible mess, and it is almost enirely the fault of British pedelecers, thanks to their constant demands to have throttles. In the continental countries where they ride pedelecs en masse in ways we've...

Like all EAPCs they total 250 watts Maximum Continuous Rated Power, NOT 250 watts actual maximum power. .

We've moved on since then. We no longer call them necessary unemployment slots, now we call them Non-employed slots, people of working age who no longer want to work all their active lives. I'm an early example. I made up my mind at the very young age of 16 that I intended to retire at...

This protection obsession dates back to when motorcycles AND assisted bicycles had front number plates, nicely placed to slice a pedestrian into two. They got rid of those and have never stopped looking at two wheelers ever since.

Indeed, explaining the widespread political view. You surely don't think I want my driving to be more expensive and more controlled and restrictive, or that I want to be forced to use public transport? Of course I don't, my early driving and riding was in an even more free age than yours and...