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I know, and as you just said, with extra assistance so more suitable for the widest range of the disabled. If you just mean standard pedelecs with 250 watt rating, then as said before, just get any one approved for a throttle. Cost is just £55 at a testing station or get one done for you by...

They are permanently treated as EAPCs by the authorities, though technically they become motor vehicles in law. However there is already a far superior class of bicycle for the disabled which is why the authorities won't look at your proposal. That is the L1e-A class, pedelec again but allowed...

I agree, calling it Push Assist protects them. However, calling it Start assist as is common now should cause no problem if the pedals are turned by the feet, even with so called Ghost pedalling. There is still some rider input as Newton's first law of motion is in play since the pedals have...

My post just above yours explains, the walk assist origin was the bike used as a pedestrian controlled vehicle, and to be a pedestrian meant walking only, since even scooting a bike with a foot on one pedal is legally riding it. There is nothing in the EAPC exemption from being a motor vehicle...

That is close to the answer, the origin of Walk Assist on pedelecs was before there was anything permitting it in EAPC law, but there was a law permitting pedestrian controlled vehicles. These usually took the form of powered four wheel barrow or small van with a motor switched by a tension...

Agreed, but reflecting how impossible it is for us to compete with the Orient. .

Hi Gringo, Cycle engineers Highpath Engineering have for many years made these swing cranks in Britain. LINK .

And modern housing, heating, clean water supplies and sufficient food, which together took us to 70 years being commonplace before modern medical care. .

Me too. The population when I was born was 2 billion, now quadrupled and increasingly out of control. .

In the sense of being fined by the local authority. And he could then in theory also be charged further over the death itself, since it occurred while he would have been breaking a law, albeit a bye law. .

If you note the registration number, time and place you can report them and action will be taken. One of the benefits of the DVLA hotline is that you aren't required to provide your name (or any other personally identifying information) when you call in. Just give your location, the type of...

It depends on it being their land by ownership or right of management. Bournemouth’s promenade, for example, has a cycling speed limit of 10mph (and on some days bikes aren’t allowed there at all), so their bye laws have force. And it's not just speed limits, Local Authorities can impose...

I am genuinely pleased to learn of all the happy aspects of your life, very long may they continue. But it leaves me puzzled, why the explosions of textual anger, extremism and cruelty to one's fellow man in one who claims to be so contented? Like you I speak as I find and you certainly do...

I'd predicted such a reaction. :D As I posted previously you are sadly on course to go to your grave a very unhappy dissatisfied man. Meanwhile perhaps you could stand in for Benjamin Netanyahu to give him a break. Or much better take a course in criminology which will help you understand...

Dangerous cyclists and indeed most prisoners aren't usually nonces or murderers though. No, the universal problem of mankind is that we have set up a civilisation so imperfect that it creates many of the very problems you speak of, making life impossible for ever increasing numbers of people...

But you would soon be one of those serving time in such conditions, since you would be one of these malefactors who harm people with such treatment, breaching so many of the laws which protect us. And that is the primary reason for having law, to protect. Punishment to enforce the protection...

No, they are exempt because they aren't subject to Motor Vehicle law. Because speed which is not of itself illegal is not necessarily wanton or dangerous. Unlike that of Charlie Alliston's case, who didn't have the two legally required brakes and wrongly thought shouting a warning of...

That is national Road Traffic Act speed limits for Motor Vehicles of course, and bicycles including EAPCs are not motor vehicles. Lawfully imposed Local Authority speed limits apply to all, including cyclists. As do owners speed limits on their private lands. .

- - - - - for one's e-boat. :D .

The e-car market makes no sense and the reason for that is the extremes of demand. When demand for new ones started to sharply rise from the start of 2018, the inability of the manufacturers to supply increasingly led to over a year waiting lists and ridiculously high prices for used very...