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I used to be a teacher - sounds like you might have been in my school!!!! I found the trick was to be too close to the kid for them to get any momentum behind the chair and to be good at knowing who was 'having a bad day'

Hi Welcome Looked at the Carrera and didn;t like them - probably just me Went for a Raleigh with the same Suntour motor etc instead After 5 months I had so many problems that Raleigh upgraded me to the Motus - with Bosh motor etc massively better OK - the problems - actually one single problem...

Hi I've got a Motus too - long story but I love it - previously have a Powacycle Salisbury (180W motor - but with throttle!) and loved it but decided that a modern bike was a good idea - best idea EVER!! I keep looking at the weather and wondering when the wind will get low enough so that I can...

I started wearing a helmet becsue I worked in a aschool - seemed wrong for them to be told to wear a helmet and then I'm wandering in and out on my bike without one And kids are more susceptible to head injury - especially as helmet are (apparently) most use in very slow speed accidents - which...

The problem is that even if you are pedalling at e.g. 30 km/h then the motor will still be assisting - even though you are doing nearly all the work In reality the chances of you getting in trouble are very low unless you get into an accident - in which case you could get the whole book thrown...

I agree with that last post - when I am riding my bike I am far more aware of what is around me. Part of that is that I am out in the air with a totally unrescrticted view - and can hear everything as well But also becasue I am far more vulnerable and, although I don't feel vulnerable, I think...

As far as I know my crank powered bike doesn't know what gear I am in - or what gears are on the bike. The rear wheel's only connection to the ebike systems (as far as I can see) is the speed sensor - i.e. a metal lump on a spoke and a detector on the frame. SO I presume that I could swap out...

Apparently it was said in court that he was doing 30 mph - so I am assuming that this is accurate BUT it does seem kinda suspicious - if they had said 28 - or 32 it would be more likely Does anyone know anything about how it was calculated?? maybe a police car drove past at 30mph amd they...

Looking at it again - several times - I still think he should have seen her much earlier - the angles were not all that extreme TBH I do expect a higher level of observation from cyclists because we are out in the air and often higher up so we can see and hear a lot better than a car driver -...

On the point of removing the dongle and then putting it back after the test - just saying that Bosch claim to be able to detect when an ebike with one of their motors has been 'dongled' (is that a word??) if you use a dongle too much then it will go into a limp mode and won't work until you get...

From my watching of the video it seems that the road was clear all round and she had to cross quite a lot of road to get up to him - so he should have seen her before the collision OK - she was moving quite fast - but he didn't appear to make any attempt to avoid her - I can only assume that he...

That would be good for bike shops - additional income like an MOT - but you know what happens when that happens - the regualtions end up increasing. And - introduce them for ebikes and you dis-incentivise ebike so people go to e-scooters and hoverboards - and whatever comes along next year - so...

It is relevant in some ways because it affects what they can charge him with and how they can prove the 'without due care and attention' part of it But no - he should not have been on the road on that thing anyway - which is the main thing

The bloke on the illegal bike is seriously at fault here - hope he gets what he deserves. However, looking at the video - in spite of it being on the sun website - she does kinda just run out into him when he was perfectly visible. In effect it could have been a perfectly legal moped that she...

The problem with the law is how to enforce it - as well as what it actually is. It would be fine clarifying exactly what an ebike is but how would that get enforced? The Police arn't (I hope!) going to start pulling over any bike they think may be an ebike (becasue some of the new ones are less...

On the basis that an ebike that was first sold after 1-1-2016 cannot have a throttle and, therefore, must only have pedal assist - then I can't see how these can be classed as ebikes. They certainly don't come under the wolley classification of an ebike being a "normal bicycle with a motor to...

I do not know the regs in the USA but from what I could see that bike was not an ebike as defined in the UK - it looked more like one of the dodgy ones mentioned above - so it would look like a scooter not a bicycle - so I can see the mad woman's point (N.B. not her attitude but I see what...

The indicators that I have seen are so close together that many drivers won't really notice what they mean unless they are paying attention - A clear and assertive hand signal seems better to me - also arms don;t run out of battery!

The 'set my speed dial to 15' bit really messes his up his argument If a bike has a device that can set the cutoff speed to a different value - then it is not an ebike The rules/law are clear on that - but he seems to be admitting that he has a dial to set it to a speed. OK - it may be that this...

Great that you have fixed it!! Well done - and enjoy your bike