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Maybe lack of rack mounts possibly on the Raleigh. The Assist will have cut-off brake levers for mechanical disc and V brakes I'm assuming the Raleigh bike would be the same unless its an extra fancy kids model with hydraulic disc brakes. The minimum age to ride a ebike on the road and public...

So lets gets this straight according to your logic. A mid-drive motor that could apply up to 5x the power of a weaker rider 100Nm vs 20Nm is not the cause of a chain breaking it is in fact the rider? Surely this is not debatable a mid-drive motor at peak up a hill can put huge additional strain...

How is it not true. You have just added a load of extra conditions which are not applicable to what I have written. I said most people in the world use throttles with ebikes and as those markets are huge like China, India, most of Asia, South America, Africa, North America and many other...

Most of what you said doesn't make a lot of sense. Many cadence and torque based sensors are set to power levels that assist all the time depending on your effort and settings. This is in contrast to throttles where you have full control so you can use them as infrequently or frequently as you...

I can see it from both sides as a pedestrian and cyclist. I've been passed by a ebike at about 20-30mph on a narrow shared path. The ebike was going fast as it was downhill so didn't need the motor assisting. This also meant its brakes would be less effective as going downhill with a slower...

Why would you want to? For most people in the world an ebike with a throttle is the norm. It's the most logical, efficient, reliable and cheap way of controlling an ebike motor and is ideal in start/stop urban traffic and for those people who are frail or disabled and need greater assistance at...

Obviously it requires a small amount of effort but 100% of propelling the vehicle is using the motor not the cyclist and it becomes a bit of a farce to get around extremely poor legislation.

So what is your interpretation of this; https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/dft-pedal-cycles-converted-twist-go-exempt-type-approval/ Also I would disagree about being a fully acting throttle as you can set it to ghost pedal quite legally so make no effort yourself. I was watching this video earlier...

Just to add fuel to the fire it should be pointed out many legal pre-built proprietary ebikes are 250W in Europe but in other markets the same motors are sold as 350W or more and they don't even seem to restrict the wattage and can go over 700W for some motors but do always meet the 15.5mph...

From what I've learnt from this site and elsewhere. You can have twist and go throttles on type approved bikes, fully acting throttles on ebike kits and as long as electronically linked to pedalling have full control by throttle on pre-built ebikes. So its not just pre 2016 ebikes that are...

Just had a groupon email promoting this; https://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/tucano-monster-26-electric-bike? A 500W ebike from a Spanish importer being sold into the UK so that is two countries not bothered about wattage restrictions etc. You may ask why I'm on the groupon mailing list. Well I...

I totally disagree with your analysis. It makes no sense and doesn't work with the data at all. It beggars belief anyone can have such a ridiculous viewpoint to be honest. The only way you can accept such a viewpoint is if you are so politicised and locked to your own viewpoint that you ignore...

Surely Brexit is about setting your own rules independently to fix the economy and might mean higher taxation in places to create funds for investment elsewhere. A logical approach would be to have higher sales tax on economy damaging products like cars most of which are imported and use that...

Just shows how disinterested the police and trading standards are in ebikes when a business like this can exist. I'm guessing the truth is many people buy their ebikes there and use them and have no issues with authorities at all. It looks like they sell very low end bikes with ebike kits...

Again the GDP figure would be important in that graph and I'm certainly not here to defend the Conservatives but your criticism of them is not the big issue of our economy and the huge level of debt. I don't agree with your overall analysis at all when it comes to the UK economy. My point is...

We left the EU in a hugely damaged state with industry destroyed and horrific debts. We have the opportunity now to recover if we take it and that really is the benefit. Have you seen politicians come up with policies to eliminate our trading deficit and return us to a trading surplus? Brexit is...

When I look at the EU you can see a huge number of countries like France, Spain and Italy have crippling debts. https://www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html Over the next few years assuming we stay out of the EU these will be the benchmarks to see how our economy compares to theirs. Lets...

Can you explain in more detail what you are getting from that graph. Where is the GDP figure on that graph? You'd also have to factor in oil revenues and other factors. Tax burden chart below to see how it links with your graph should be strongly linked according to your analysis. I would...

I can't agree with that at all. As a country runs a trading deficit less money circulates in the economy as more of sterling is held abroad and borrowing and higher taxation is used to add back that money into the economy and its a vicious circle. Also with a surplus of sterling held abroad more...

How on earth is it bigotry when my opinion if fact/data based and you have nothing in your corner to support your argument. I think Europe is fantastic with many incredible countries but that doesn't mean an economic political partnership works, it clearly doesn't for the UK for many reasons and...