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Obviously so, since official policy was to include deaths that weren't necessarily due to Covid, i.e. all Deaths within 28 days of a positive test had to be put entered as due to Covid, whether so or not. My own brother's death was entered as due to Covid in 2020 when it emphatically was not...

Information Link (Saracen's bike) .

I agree, but we've tried to get it and failed. Members of the trade tried to get the DfT to look at it, accepting it in principle, but after consideration they refused to, so I doubt they would even look again. The fundamental problem we have is that we have one of the world's best road...

We can, the S class speed pedelecs allowed 500 watt rating and 45kph (28mph) are authorised for EU wide use including the UK still. But not completely freely, since each country still decides whether to accept them and the conditions attached. Germany, France and Denmark do accept them...

It's not about speed alone, it's about whether one is tested for proficiency or not. Car drivers are, cyclists are not, so any cyclist motorised is restricted to a typical cycling speed for safety reasons. .

Neal has used both, but has posted strongly in favour of hub motors. Link I started with a crank drive pedelec but sold it and followed with hub motors. .

Not for me either. The gearing conflict alone is unresolvable with a shared drive path. For me and many if not most, the single gear of a hub motor handles the 5 to 15.5 mph assisted speed range well enough and the most any hub motor can need for that range is two gears with a dual speed hub...

I did and fully understand them. Perhaps you don't understand how aggressive they can be, but perhaps your impulsive resorting to threatening the Ignore function at me and others might help you understand the inherent intolerance that others perceive. .

True, but utility cycling in the 1940s and before was very different. Almost none of today's head down over drop handlebars inputting lots of effort at 20mph or more, plus cycling up steep hills. Then it was upright, almost universally at around 10 mph and getting off and walking up hills of...

You are so right. Britain uniquely became this oddly sporting biased cycling nation that we are due to cycling actually dying almost totally out of existence here between 1955 and 1980. That was due to our recovering much faster following WW2 since we'd had far less war damage than mainland...

My old boss from the 1940's would turn in his grave. I still remember when the first 5 speed rear only derailleur appeared in the shop. "Ridiculous" he said, "who could ever want more than three gears? :D .

I accept that and have long appreciated your posts and the valuable help you give in here, making me all the more surprised by this interchange with Woosh. Woosh's business model is very relevant as witness the healthy way in which it has survived and the high regard so many have for them...

No misunderstanding, you were telling Woosh how to run his business in a very critical way. Perhaps you were trying to be helpful, but it was obvious early on that Woosh didn't see it that way so it was becoming a matter of good manners. Minding one's own business has more than one meaning...

Woosh didn't post any conclusions until the questioning and challenges started. All he had done was point out that he also had motor wheels at a reasonable price, from which the challenges built up without any justification. I disagree, it's a myth that a business has to grow or die and not...

Agreed, I've found the MPs almost bomb proof in the worst road conditions. I still remember one notable six mile round trip to the recycling depot on a bike with a Maxxis front tyre, MP on the rear and towing a trailer with ersatz Chinese tyres. N/S trailer tyre punctured at two miles, tube...

But look at all the work you've done to seal it. This is the trouble I think Paul refers to, most consumers rightly expect what they buy to operate well in the typical conditions they will be operating in, including bicycles in rain. In respect of rain pedelecs are often poor as the many...

The law is identical here in the UK, 250 watt continuous power rating is the maximum allowed. Although we left the EU, all their laws we adopted during EU membership we transferred into a bill called the Great Repeal Bill, making them UK law too. Now we can only change them one at a time...

The attack you and Guerney have launched on Woosh was unjustified. He has simply been running a successful business that suits many customers in the small UK market and has not been whining over the years about Chinese suppliers while doing that. The whining you complain of was simply part...

It's the forum rules Paul, an extract below: Forum Rules & Terms of Use These terms of use may be changed at any time without notice: You are responsible for what you post. We welcome constructive, informative, tasteful and civil posts. The forum is intended to be as pleasant a place as...

I don't think it's a valid question at all, you are effectively saying that if one finds they have a competitor doing the same thing or better, they should pack up shop! That's how we ended up with losing our small shops to the dominance of supermarkets who now make us suffer for it...