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Another notable thing about the Netherlands cycling accident statistics is that 40% of the circa 200 cyclist deaths each year are with no others involved, causing their own deaths. No doubt once again the speed freaks. .

A bit like that, in the sense that if one follows every detail of the regulations, such bikes would fall foul of the reqirements in some nit picking way. .

It is in my Sticky Thread: Pedelec Law, the details .

You can buy any one you like and get it approved for a fully acting throttle in just the same way Wisper do Terry: Getting legal permission to have a fully acting "Twist and Go" throttle on a pedelec: The Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval test now includes a sub-category for "Twist and go"...

Probably no need, I think such machines will remove themselves from the roads quite quickly, maybe even removing their riders from the population! .

The 250W LPM e-bikes supplied by Wisper use their existing stamped bicycle frame number as the VIN number, this agreed from the outset of this sub-category when the individual approvals were done at Southampton. Since then their approvals have been done at Gillingham, Kent, more convenient to...

I'm not referring to the M.A.C., only to the fact that an MAC inspection will certify a home build as a legitimate EAPC according to all the rules. For example the required labelling on the converted bicycle showing the Manufacturer, the Maximum Continuous Rated Power and the Maximum Assisted...

I know of it too, the last time I saw it published was in A to B magazine. The male researcher was very thorough, even in his gender bias research to the extent of experimentally wearing a long blonde wig and suitable apparel to appear to drivers as a female cyclist. .

It's not stupid, it's not incompetent and it is not badly written. It does what it should do, certify a motor as being able to deliver 250 watts consistently over wide range of circumstances, while allowing sufficient power for the specific need ín the more difficult circumstances. Back in the...

Which of course produces the opposite of happiness, the certainty of dissatisfaction resulting. .

That's actually not true and never has been since there is a simple solution that I hit on very early in life. Whatever one's income, someone else will be earning less and managing ok, so just be that person and save the difference. I've been retired for thirty-three years now and I'm still...

I don't do that since for me primary safety is everything, never having the accident. I believe our excessive British emphasis on secondary safety and the resultant feeling of security leads to many more accidents, while an ever present knowledge of vulnerability leads to more care and far...

I have done many times in this forum, saying how I've ridden bicycles for well over 70 years, never wearing a helmet and never banging my head doing it. There are some things helmet wearing promoters should be aware of: Bicycles have been around since the first one in 1817, yet a cycle helmet...

Not just many people but many countries too, like Britain, paying vast interest every month on our immense national debt. For Britain I'd change the words in your brackets too: (Not being convinced they always need the latest "defensive" tech and regularly fighting proxy US wars doesn't help...

Even worse for me John, since I always pay my credit card total every month, using it like a charge card, so credit scorers often wouldn't even list me as existing. Not true of ClearScore though, since they regularly advise my good score despite my never having anything owing, so you could try...

Speaking of battery fires, this should be fun: Battery Electric Trains on trial in London for unelectrified branch lines use all day long. The battery fully recharges at the end of each run in just three and a half minutes! Being media no information of what battery type is used, probably...

Nor me since the day the forum opened in October 2006. Over seventeen years of mostly lithium battery charging and usage by at least 15,000 members joining over the years, without a single fire. .

The exemption to allow EAPCs is very singular in its mention of an auxilliary motor. However, there is no mention of the motor being in a wheel, hence mid motors, so not in a wheel or divided between two wheels doesn't seem to matter, especially since it is the bicycle and not the motor which...

Indeed it has. The first 2010 model with a 24 kWh battery was good for just over 70 miles (claimed 90). The revision with a 30 kWh battery three years later was good for over 90 miles (claimed 124). Both good for 89mph top speed and 11.2 seconds 0 to 62mph. The increased efficiency second...

Nissan have announced that they will have a solid state battery model on the road in 2028, and they have lead the way with lithium batteried e-car development from 2010 on. I'm a very happy Nissan second generation Leaf owner for six years now and it, its two chargers and even its battery and...