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What a ridiculous comment. Seeing how it might just as likely be fully compliant with the law, how do you feel today? Stupid question, right? Last week somebody practically tried to blame soundwave for a non-occuring fatal incident. Let's ascertain the facts before we start turning on each other.

If you have complete control over both your sales channel and finances, I would be inclined to agree with you. However, the waters are often muddied when selling through online marketplaces and accepting certain payment methods, where buyers' rights exceeds the minimum expected of a business by...

Good point. This is probably the reason that I can't recall having ever noted an e-biker having blown through a set of red lights.

Hear hear! Dealing with unexpected issues does become easier once an operation is scaled up, which might explain the difference between Tony's and our view on the subject.

This ignores the fact that your time comes at a cost. Time spent on support is time lost on building more bikes. This cost has to be accounted for. This comment surprised me, coming from a trade member, but I might have misunderstood your point. All the exceptions, exclusions and T's & C's in...

That doesn't reflect what could happen in practice. Is the supplier going to carry out fault finding and troubleshooting on your behalf? Is the supplier going to carry out the repair work or parts replacement themselves? Are they going to deal with your angry and frustrated customer for you? It...

IMO, £100 a day is not enough to also cover support and a warranty. There's nothing wrong with creating a one-off for resale, but as an ongoing business you're asking for trouble with that sort of margin.

Amen! As somebody who earns a living from ebay, as well as other other online sales channels, I advise that you should always follow the golden rule: Never sell something that you can't afford to lose!

Christ! Imagine trying to unlock the bike, having to go through a process of elimination with seven keys every time.

Some vendors do state that you should figure out your wire routing as a first step, but most people dismiss this as unnecessarily cautious (I know I did). They then end up kicking themselves once they realise they have to start from scratch in order to route the wires correctly.

Don't be too hard on yourself. Nearly everyone makes the same mistake when installing a BBS motor for the first time.

I think the ruling is attempting to protect the copyright holder in the following example: A copyrighted image published on the web is reproduced without the owner's consent and published elsewhere on the web as a second version. The original image was accompanied by the relevant copyright...

Maybe the court means that the photographer must explicitly allow usage - "not limiting" usage does not imply consent.

The cheap and nasty bullet connectors made from soft steel are god damn awful. Propper RC bullet connectors are extremely reliable and won't cause any problems.

It depends on your specific controller, but usually you have to engage brake cutouts for regenerative braking to occur. If you have a controller from Grin, Sabvoton, Adapto, Sevcon or Kelly, or have a Cycle Analyst, it would be possible to engage regen automatically on a 'throttle-off' event...

It's not that energy recapture through regenerative braking is inefficient (the actual DC-DC conversion efficiency will likely be somewhere in the region of 90-95%), just that most of the energy used to make the vehicle move in the first place is lost to overcome air resistance. In reality...

'CCTV image released by police after e-bike rider hit-and-run' https://www-cyclingweekly-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cyclingweekly.com/news/cctv-image-released-police-e-bike-rider-hit-run-392503/amp?amp_js_v=0.1&amp_lite#webview=1&cap=swipe

Hmmm. It's more than just a little unfair to single out SW for something that hasn't even happened. There's no point in jumping to conclusions until further details are understood. The bike in question could turn out to be perfectly legal, but ridden by an a$$hole.

I paid £22 tax on a £567.41 purchase (BBSHD + extras) a few weeks back, shipped using DHL. I got off lightly and suspect I should have been charged more.