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I'm in London, Britain's bicycle theft capital. But in 55 years in my current area shopping from local supermarkets and other shops with bikes and pedelecs I've never lost a bike or any part, or suffered any damage. That is despite using the simplest of cable locks and on one occasion just a...

Yes, I'd heard that too. Perhaps not surprising, since with only a quarter of our population they buy a third of a million pedelecs each year. If each one lasts ten years, that's equal to every fifth person of any age having a pedelec. .

It's perhaps the one time when the lack of popular e-biking in Britain is a blessing, Imagine if we were like the Netherlands where 70% cycle, a very high proportion on e-bikes. Dozens of pedelecers at cafes, pubs, stations etc all hopefully clutching chargers, multiple batteries and leads ! .

It's even more complicated than that: Firstly a type approved pedelec doesn't exist, in law being type approved means it becomes a moped everywhere the EU type law exists, including here in Britain. The only difference here is that the DfT has arrange for the police forces to ignore the law...

Sometimes it's better they don't "fix" them. This was Hesiers Hill after Tandridge Council resurfaced it:

You probably enjoy what is called "Grandfather Rights", meaning that existing equipment remains legal. The principle being that laws cannot be retrospective, back dated, since that would infer criminality before the new law even existed. For example, although the law now bans fully acting...

In January 2022, new rules came into force that meant all new wood-burning stoves, multi-fuel stoves and fireplaces manufactured would need to meet new guidelines called 'Ecodesign. ' The government also issued a ban on the burning of wet wood and house coal and urged households to switch to...

The only reason Boris Johnson accepted the trial of these American machines only was to curry favour with the USA in the hope of getting a post Brexit trade deal. Since first Trump and since Biden have made it clear that it's "America First" and no trade deal, this is what we should do...

One side of the story. China has also made the worlds largest switch to electric vehicles, so much so that their cities often cannot even buy any other type of bus. They are also in parallel maintaining their efforts at decarbonisation with green energy. 2030 looks like being a world wide...

Indeed I am, and why I've lived in this home since late 1967. I've always had mixed feelings about my 8 years in Bournemouth from mid 1946 to late 1954. Coming from Greater London I didn't like the people there at the time, stuffy, old fashioned, often unfriendly and even offensive at times...

Indeed what so many would like, but it's only possible for a tiny minority to satisfy their innate conservatism. The rest of us just have to live with inevitable continuing change. However, I live in London. Just 80 yards east from a lovely 200 acre nature reserve, and I'm on the committee...

You just can't help yourself can you? Electric cars cost much more at the moment due in part to their low scale of manufacture and sale. Not because of all the resources going into them, since in fact they use less resources overall. The other factor is that the car makers are fed up with...

There's another argument for a large battery, less stress in normal usage due to the car working at far below it's maximum potential most of the time. That is why e-car batteries are lasting ten years while e-bike batteries working at near maximum only last half or a quarter that time. .

No this isn't standard for the decent pedelec trade, but I'm afraid if one buys illegal 1000 watt bikes from the get rich quick opportunists like Rich Bit, it's what you must expect. Traders who ignore the law when they sell are just as likely to ignore consumer protection law when help is...

Oh I think we've proved ourselves more than capable of stripping ourselves of industries and even commerce as well. We did a fine job of both before we ever joined the Common Market, then accelerated that thanks to Margaret Thatcher's insane policies rather than any EU influences. And since...

Why do you keep posting this sort of bunkum? E-vehicles produce far, far less polutionthan i.c. vehicles, there is no comparison. Articles like the one you linked to are ignorant or wilfully dishonest, for example with the mention of brake pad emissions. E-vehicles suffer far less brake pad...

Agree about car weights, but e-power versus diesel isn't about efficiency, it is about less pollution at point of use and that is definitely completely in favour of e-power. Vehicle exhausts are prematurely killing thousands in cities, EVs eliminate that. Pollution at power stations is mostly...

True, and a large part of the reason is the obsession with safety and getting bigger for the ever fatter and taller population. Two foot longer, six inches wider, massively reinforced central body zone, crumple zones front and rear etc, all adding up to as much extra weight on many IC cars as a...

Pulling out is what we've done, our old British companies abandoning manufacturing and leaving it entirely to Chinese companies. What they are doing is shifting their EU production to where it makes the EU more competitive profit wise. So long as they retain full employment at home that makes...

That problem we are gradually solving, and I'd rather the research effort goes into that. But I'm not just pro electrification as such, I'm pro far less of the madness of constant travel. Some will always be necessary but it could be greatly reduced as I've shown it already has been. And what...