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Is it possible for the OP to just fit a smaller controller. I understand that there is no thing as a 250 watt motor.

d8veh Glad to see you are still around.

Those alloy wheels look tempting, but I know that car alloy wheels are heavier than steel, so I suppose these wheels are heavier than spoked ones.

Well, It's a motor vehicle Do not expect to see it in the UK

I thought that warranties only applied to the original purchaser.

And in another story, a 80 year old lady borrowed my Woosh Gale folder at a country show. She managed alright until she got off, inadvertently twisted the throttle and the bike shot up the side of a display tent. She was left standing there still holding the handlebars with the bike vertical...

Eddie, I had to give up statins. I had vertigo, visual disturbances and memory loss. Fine now, just accept that I must control what I eat to keep cholesterol low.

Yes, for me it is a bit emotional. But I voted all those years ago to join the Common Market, not the fourth Reich.

From my copy of the DoT document quoted by Flecc above, I get the impression that the UK would be happy to ignore throttles and it is the EU that gets in the way (again)

91.4765% of people agree with me. (A figure like that sounds more authentic)

I just want out. fed up with being lied to by trousering, snouting, gravy train riding politicians. Fed up with a total lack of democracy. 'Lisbon' Brown the total traitor's head should be on top of St. Paul's Cathedral like in the old days.

This is one of the downsides of your situation. People will suspect that it is a stolen bike. Afraid you are on your own with this one.

My reading is that throttles in themselves are not unlawful as long as the pedals are being turned. There is no ban on them, simply the requirement that the motor is switched off if the pedals cease to turn. So, a bike fitted with a simple pedelec magnet ring could be throttle controlled as long...

It has an AGM (lead acid) battery. That is why it is so big. Appears to have a throttle.

It is not for the owner to prove that the bike has grandfather rights. It is for the prosecution to prove that it does not. Really, I cannot see this being enforced. Exactly when is a bike not a bike? If you repair an old bike with new wheels and saddle, does it remain an old bike? Just how much...

What you aint got, don't need no fixin.

At present, if you want to travel around at 30mph, go up all hills without pedalling, go 150 miles before refuelling, then a 50cc moped will do just fine. But, you need all that legal paraphernalia, helmet, number plate, MOT, insurance, tax. And you cannot go on cycle paths, or more than 15...

Well, after they banned him off 'Blow my own trumpet.com' and he is suspended from 'Big mouths R us' he is probably taking up something else.

Re numb hands. Driving a car, do you get numbness? If not, I suspect it is the angle at which your hands are resting. Ten to two, or quarter to three seem comfortable and of course do not take any weight. Flat bike bars on the other hand require an unnatural position, drop bars generally mimic...

I have seen many Belgians riding with their bars at how do you say this? Nipple height.