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OK, you want a solution. With my e-bike and me weighing only 5 kilos more than your trike and rider, I've had years of experience of climbing 20 and 25% with a 20" wheeled 250 watt rear hub motor which could sink 1000 watts, giving almost 600 watts of net power. I still had to work since the...

But he hadn't solved it Freddie. He was in flat Norfolk and commented on that. There is no way the motor he chose would cope with a 20% or 25% hill. You've already correctly identified the opposing problems, being stuck with one trike model which inherently cannot give enough front wheel tyre...

Not so, the thread and posts you are commenting on are from 2012. There have been numerous updates since then. And where are the "many" e-bikes designed for disabled people? I've never seen one in over 70 years connected with the subject of power assisted bicycles. Quote from your first...

First a warm welcome Freddy, and no, what has happened isn't usual. It's unlikely the two admin members have the prior knowledge you suggest. I've reported this thread to admin with the below message to get you some attention: "Could you please check what has happened to Freddy's post and...

A pedelec rider doesn't need to look into all the detail of these laws, they are there for designers and manufacturers to assist them in producing legal machines and to earn official approval such as the CE marking. As I ended the above link. It's actually all very simple, just do what is...

Sadly that is true, and it has led to a ridiculous inconsistency. To be on the road any vehicle type has to be either type approved or exempted from type approval. Then once one of those is achieved, a law permitting and specifying usage has to be passed, but that second doesn't necessarily...

It is much more black and white than you present it You are not quoting from the law but from an amendment to the law, so it's incomplete. However those statements are correct. It's all enforceable, but your second statement is incorrect. the "soft" cutoff as you describe it is before 15.5...

Not known, Panasonic kept such detail secret since their units were sold as sealed for life with fully encapsulated circuitry, repair only by unit replacement. .

Because of all the vagaries of the law I'd need to know much more to be definitive. But the answer is almost certainly yes for the buyer in terms of legal liability, if they are unaware that it was an altered machine and sold to them as legal. The key fact is that pedelec specification and...

It can be. The Panasonic motors from 2007 on for example were superficially identical but internally tweaked for different power levels according to the pedelec manufacturers wishes. Or as with BionX, the internal controller settings being a choice. .

Context as always matters, there is a difference between being a legal machine and legal use. The bike in question was being supplied as a 500 watt rated machine, thus supplied as illegal which could be limited by the buyer to legal usage. Nealh was right, the supplier has stated that it is...

All that matters is being legally configured as supplied and not having a handy switch to boost power while out on the road. What Soundwave means is that you cannot change anything and remain legal, but he is wrong in this statement: "the fact that you can change anything means is does not...

If a complete pedelec branded by the supplier as of their manufacture in law, and the limiting is not easily changed while riding, yes, entirely legal if compliant with all the other requirements of the law. It is a 250 watt machine. .

But technical standard EN15194, Type Approval Exemption law and Pedelec law all only apply to complete pedelecs, so what a motor only maker says they are has no prescribed legal meaning. If Woosh are nominating the specification of pedelecs made to their order, they are not just a retailer but...

We don't have traffic police driving in London, there's too many slow moving traffic queues for car chases. I remember the cycling officers in the centre boasting that they made all the nicks for using a mobile phone at the wheel, being the only officers able to catch up and stop the guilty...

Nor for me, the pedelec law always suited me since I come from the era when for over 150 years everyone had cycled at around 10 mph and 15 mph was considered fast. It's only in Britain since the late 1980s that the current barmy 20+mph cycling speeds have been thought normal. You don't need to...

No known cases at all on the grounds of being an unapproved vehicle. The authorities are only concerned with the key usage laws being observed, 250 watts continuous power rating and 15.5 mph power assist limit. If they are observed, these grey areas are ignored here in the UK: Being a kit...

Also on the thread subject, but the cost of charging an e-car on the public network. One of the charging companies, Geniepoint, have just announced the new prices with the latest increases: Off Peak: 20.00 - 07.59 . . . 88p per kWh Peak: 08.00 - 19.59 . . . 98p per kWh Ouch! Fortunately...

And there might even be a further variant with e-cars which also use a 12 volt battery for the usual car systems, in addition to their traction battery. On my Nissan Leaf that gets charged at the same time as the traction battery is plugged into any charger. But to take care of any heavy 12...

There isn't one, as Putin's total Russian withdrawal from Georgia once he'd taught them his necessary lesson, showed and proved beyond contradiction. Also now proven by the Georgian government's current voluntary co-operation with Russia, even against their people's will. They at least have...