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They can't legally do that, they too have to comply with the law, and that also applies to the law on misleading people. .

We are quite safe. They have chosen the wording most likely to ensure compliance, but will not attempt to oppose what the law actually is. A similar situation arose when the European Parliament recommended that pedelecs should have whatever power the designer considered necessary to achieve...

And for this subject the law can never make sense. The fundamental behind all this is that the Laws of Physics and the Laws of Man are incompatible. Since the Laws of Physics are immutable, it is the Laws of Man that must bend to achieve any sort of compatibility. Whether any of us like that...

Why do you persist in getting this wrong? We are signed up to BS EN15194, the legal technical standard which determines the motor rating, NOT the actual power. Nor does it set any maximum power. So the actual power is not a matter for any court, only compliance with the law as it stands. .

I use SSDs for both Windows and data and they are lasting almost a decade. Today I've just replaced two Kingstons in my desktop after 9 years 4 months of all day, every day use, though only the Windows 7 drive was beginning to fail but still fully operational. The data SSD is still perfectly...

High Court rulings have been made that the pedals should be fully functional as such, so tiny cranks with pedals on both sides of small wheels are not legal. But hand cycles rotating a chainwheel or hand cycles with a fore and aft rowing action both qualify as pedalling. Once again it's the...

Seems perfectly legal, leg action controlling delivery of motor power. It would have a problem with 250LPM for a throttle approval though, since the L1e Moped classes require a seat for the rider. .

Not very stable and you wouldn't want to ride one at 25 kph / 15.5 mph anyway. See this previous thread answers: https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/views-on-diblasi-r34-please.18842/ .

There's no such thing as an independent sovereign government in this present day world, nor has there been for well over 100 years. All are interdependent, even the USA is a slave to the many traps of its own devising. Why do you protest? What makes you think your alternative sources know the...

While it was probably just an act of courtesy, many drivers are well aware due to publicity about it that that cyclists are videoing their misdemeanours and sending them to the police. So it's also possible that his apology was an insurance, hoping to avoid a video with registration number...

Not really, since technical document BS EN 15194 specifies the conditions and both the letter and the spirit of that is to allow far more than 250 watts as necessary. It only says that a motor should be able to run at 250 watts continuously without overheating, no mention of what it does when...

Any changes could only come in very gradually, starting with LIe-A, the 15.5mph with up to 1000 watt class. Once any changes there proved to be commensurate with road safety, easements for the 28mph 4.5kW Moped class might then be possible, but of course this is a process taking years, not...

They are already available to all, with optional higher wattages and twist and go throttles, and have been for many years. All are within the L1e-A and L1e-B classes, and they are e-bikes, but they are NOT pedelecs (EAPCs). Pedelecs are not e-bikes. I don't know how long I will have to keep...

I remember a slow motion version of this in my area. At the bus/tram interchange I saw a decent lookinging road bike locked by its crossbar to a bike stand but with front wheel missing. It being a route I regularly cycled, I saw other parts gradually being removed over time, gradual...

Only trouble is many angle grinder thefts in London and other cities are made by van gangs, they pick up a number of bikes during a theft trip. Then any locks that aren't onto street furniture they remove at their leisure. .

Agreed I was speaking in precise legal terms, but in English those are the only terms that matter for trouble free usage here. So I disagree that e-bike is perfectly correct for an EAPC, since it is so wide open to the misunderstanding and misuse we are currently suffering from. Remember that...

I always use pedelec to distinguish them as the legal bureacracy free bicycles that they remain. Of course it shouldn't have been necessary since we originally possessed the term Moped (motor + pedals) which quite accurately described our EAPCs, but sadly the chumps in the government's...

Indeed, from the official Protection Report, Executive Summary on the 31st December 2017 Liverpool Multi-Storey fire: 16.42 First call to the Fire and Rescue Service (999 call from member of public). 16.45 Local event firefighting team arrive at main entrance, under blue lights. 16.50 Fire &...

No, you're safe to cycle as long as your pedelec is legal or close to that. It's as Saneagle described, just dealing with a specific objective, the people being very obviously illegal, often in multiple ways. They illustrate what we've always known, it's the same small proportion of people who...

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