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This is page 2 from the 6th April 2015 amendment to the EAPC regulations: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/24/regulation/2/made See item 3 (b) (3) In regulation 3— (b)for “bicycles and tricycles”, substitute “pedal cycles with two or more wheels”. So you can have as many wheels as...

Not true, I'm safe from this because I've never fallen for the smartphone and pager scams. Like my forebears over as much as 100,000 years, I've had and still have a very satisfying life without such rubbish. It doesn't always help anyway. Yesterday a 90 year old who I work with in our...

But they don't go after them do they, there is no policing to speak of. They'll probably just make more unsuitable regulations that are a nuisance to us all, kidding themselves that it's a problem solved. The most likely main threat is that every kit, modified or home constructed EAPC will...

To further highlight just what a mistake it is for us to call our machines e-bikes, short for electric bikes, I've just noticed this at the head of a Halfords web page: "PLEASE NOTE: In the UK you must be over 14 years old to purchase and ride an electric bike but you won't need a licence, nor...

And that is precisely the trouble, brought upon ourselves in increasingly costly ways. Our careless loose generic naming even led to our UK politicians lumping e-scooters in with our machines, despite them being motor vehicles requiring a driving licence and ours not. .

Peter's omission, not mine, since at his motor repair centre he only repairs mid drives, so I could only quote what he actually said. .

I've previously argued long and hard in here that we should not be calling our machines e-bikes, it's just asking for this sort of trouble, so I'm pleased to see at the end of the article that Peter Collard argues similar: "I personally feel that before irreparable damage is done to the...

This program is more then two months old. .

Going about it the wrong way, they should not be trying to put out the flames. The best way has been shown to be letting the fire continue under controlled conditions.

Big cats will eat Chinamen though: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-38793011 .

If your electric bike conforms to the regulations for pedelecs (EAPCs), it is a bicycle in law and the following all applies: Cyclists can ride on the pavement in some circumstances, details quoted below. Read right through to the end, showing this still applies: "On 1st August 1999, new...

For the first two decades from the start of this millennium Kinetics in Glasgow were the cycle dealer with the Heinzmann agency. They also had a lot of expertise with NiCad batteries which Heinzmann exclusively still used at that time. .

I'm not concerned with the Oxford experiment and it didn't any raise money to build new schools, doctors surgeries or kids playgrounds. I'm not disagreeing with the idea that politicians are anti car, indeed I've been posting many times how they regret ever letting car ownership become so...

Nobody is stopping people travelling anywhere, or even having their own vehicles. They can have any of the forms of electric vehicles, indeed governments are spending heavily on charging infrastructure and encouraging low energy use transport like our pedelecs and e-scooters. .

The LEZ and ULEZ origins were not Sadiq Khan's, he has just continued with them. Towards the end of 2006, the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, proposed changing the congestion charge fee, from being a flat rate for all qualifying vehicles, to being based on (VED) bands.[8] VED bands for new...

Northern Ireland has its own Road Traffic jurisdiction, though they mainly follow ours. The mainland UK 1983 law as amended by the 2015 law were only adopted from 13th May 2020 in Northern Ireland. The 2015 amendment contains the permission for 4 wheels, this link is to the part you need...

He is wrong on that point alone, from the congestion charge on it has been openly declared that the funds raised are for the benefit of public transport and cycling. That is the real point of such charging, since the improvement of public transport itself reduces personal car use and therefore...

Your favourite twerp Geoff obviously doesn't think: The congestion charge lowered central London motor traffic by 20%. The scrappage scheme permanently got rid of a large number of the dirtiest diesel vehicles. The LEZ and ULEZ zones have resulted in large numbers of other high emission...

Welcome to the world of senior moments! Don't let it get you down though, at least with most of us the onset isn't until we reach about seventy. For those deluded enough to think they'd make good politicians, it can be anything over twenty years old. .

An increase in bus use! That's a massive understatement. Our bus fleet has doubled from 4500 to 9000 now and they are all much cleaner, gradually changing to pure electric. We also now have by far the lowest incidence of car ownership in the UK as people find they don't need cars any more by...