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Accell Group have taken over the Raleigh brand as you'll see on the link below, but the rival group Pon Holdings owns Derby Cycles who have the rights to the Raleigh name as well and market similar to the Kalkhoffs under the Raleigh name, Raleigh's only e-bikes in fact. Will Pon be willing to...

Information on the latest position on the following link: New E-bike legislation Bear in mind though that the DfT has reacted unfavourably to these moves, clearly as ever completely misunderstanding the position and reaching false conclusions.

Tonight's latest government proposal for privatising roads is a really scary proposition. We know what happened to Railtrack, it was a disaster that had to be replaced by Network Rail, effectively back into public ownership. And the train companies haven't an inspiring record. This time the...

In this thread from Rog in The Charging Post, he raises the issue of e-bike insurance high cost compared to his motorbike, commenting on the huge problem of bike theft probably a cause. Given that bike theft is such a major national problem, the high cost of e-bikes and quality sport bikes...

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Golf is to be added to the Olympics from 2016, a pity it's not this year with Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy taking a well deserved best in world position today. We'd easily be in line for another gold medal. Surprised it wasn't in already, with archery, handball and soft porn (beach...

I know many don't like helmet threads for their unproductive nature, but here's one positive. I appear to have broken all previous records for the "likes" given to a single post, 9 at the point of typing this! :cool: Here's that infamous post: Link Keep watching, may get more yet! :)

The astonishing fact of a sharp decline in car ownership in America's young is explored in a forthcoming radio program. It reveals only half of America's 17 year olds possess a driving licence compared with three-quarters in 1998. The program is "Costing the Earth" on BBC Radio 4, broadcast at...

I often get the impression from posts that members think our UK/EU laws are tough and that there's a free-for-all in many other places. As the following will show, nothing could be further from the truth, and that includes much of the USA as seen further down. Mainland Europe of course...

China's most popular bike maker has designed e-bikes expressly for the Western European and Scandinavian markets and is heading our way with them: News here

Specialised have changed their opposition to e-bikes and are now coming in with big intentions: Specialised e-bike launch

For reasons spelled out after the new links below, my websites are now in my own domain, flecc.co.uk and are no longer available on the old Tiscali and Tinyworld links: Panasonic units support Giant Lafree support eZee Torq 1 & Quando support If you are interested in a little local...

Someone has reported this as an attack site to Google and I suddenly had access blocked and had to cancel attack blocking in my browser. Anyone else had this, I'm using Firefox?

A section of the "You and Yours" program on BBC Radio 4 today, 13th February was a discussion on these accidents on London, things done to alleviate and proposals. You can listen again shortly on the BBC i-player: You and Yours on i-player

Once again a heavy vehicle involved, this time a coach and a cyclist in his 60s in collision. There were 16 London cyclist deaths last year, and 10 such deaths in Britain so far this year. Report here

To restrain bankers bonuses, the government insisted they should be in shares of the bank which cannot be sold within two years. But their good intentions have come unstuck spectacularly in the last two days, though nobody seems to have noticed yet. The RBS boss has been awarded £900,000...

The maker of Kalkhoff, Raleigh, Univega e-bikes also reports large increase in other bike sales: Bike Europe report

I have quite a number of friends living in Greater London, all but one with driving licences having owned cars at various times. Well over half of them no longer own a car now, using public transport, supplemented for two of them by occasional bike use. Also, up until about five years ago...

This announcement gives hope that we may have recycling of the lithium content of batteries one day. As you'll read, current recycling doesn't recover the lithium. It seems 50% is as much as is being hoped for and it's clearly a long way off yet for UK e-bikers: Lithium Recycling Project

A young man who hadn't entered a shop during the recent riots but took a packet of cigarettes from just inside a broken window got 18 months imprisonment. Another with no record whatsoever was also imprisoned for an even more minor offence, just two of very large numbers who were harshly...