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That seems an unreasonable law to me and very hard to police if you prosecute a cyclist for riding at 34mph in a 30mph zone and the cyclist had no way of knowing the speed. Also bicycles are all over the place in speed they don't keep such a consistent speed as cars or motorbikes. So would it be...

You could search aliexpress for 'hub motor gears' and see if you recognise them and then check with the seller that the dimensions are the same. You can use google lens to see if you can find the exact same hub motor under a different brand. It's unlikely Suntour make their own hub motors. Even...

Ignoring the twist and go aspect of that ebike I've done that. I've used the marked section in the middle of the road so as not to slow traffic on my left and then moved towards the other lane so I can then cross that lane and get to the pavement on the other side rather than go to the left and...

I have the complete opposite viewpoint to you, the third party mid-drive motor kits I find very desirable as parts are often cheaply available and the products are less proprietary typically i.e. you can use your own batteries and not be locked in. The reliability of Bosch, Brose etc is...

I can see the PAS connection but it didn't come with the hardware and I was thinking it was like the voilamart controller where the cadence sensor only gives full power at 1000W so is unusable and very illegal and most rely on the throttle controller as the only usable mode where the power level...

It looks like a hub motor wheel that was sold under the Viribus name and that appears to be sold as both 36V and 48V I guess depending on the controller included. The 500W model appears to be 36V and the 1000W appears to be 48V. The controller has nice simple connections and the kit never...

Pedal assist is the legal requirement but bikes with twist and go throttles were legal up to 2016. The important legal requirement is the 15.5mph assistance limit. Ebike kits were never part of the legisation from what I understand they were just accepted. You may find your ebike bits don't work...

I bought a controller from Amazon based on the spec given and the cables clearly shown on the image but when I received it the controller it was different. In the end I was fully refunded and got to keep the controller so was happy anyway after going back and forth with the supplier. I think...

The brake levers you have will be for V/mechanical disc with regard pull ratio so ideally you want a bike with V brakes. You also want strong steel front forks. So a basic rigid steel mountain bike with the right size wheels presumably would be ideal. I'm guessing that is a 26" wheel but you can...

As I said previously any bike for a very heavy rider should focus on strength and cheaply available parts which aren't proprietary. It's quite possible the frame could fail after 9 months of use and you want to be able to replace it easily and cheapy if this is going to be a regular issue. Most...

Yes because currently there is no requirement to have a speedometer and therefore there is no reasonable way for cyclists to know their speed accurately. However it would surely be a legal requirement to have a speedometer if a speed limit applied to bicycles otherwise the law would be...

I suppose it means you have to have a speedometer attached to your bike working at all times or you won't know the speed you are going. Maybe it will need to be calibrated and checked regularly etc. Even small law amendments may mean further legislation. Making a cycling computer a legal...

It says in the description of the Giant bike that is was NiMH based so presumably didn't have to keep reserve current in the battery it could be fully discharged safely. So that would give it a bit of bonus power possibly. Also without knowing how much torque assistance it gives in normal mode...

Such a brilliant man and very sad to hear. The worst cycling news I'd seen since the sad passing of Sheldon Brown. I don't have that book myself but I used to go into the Dorchester library when I had some time to spare and read a few bike books and I've never seen a tattier library book than...

Obviously price is a huge factor. I've seen forum postings where someone bought two 11 speed Connex ebike chains for their mid-drive ebike and that was £120 for both. They were serious off-roaders and that is quite an investment in chains. You see the cheap and nasty £300-400 ebikes and they...

Looking forward to the image of the finished bike. If I have bits I sell on that I don't need I tend to put those in the final calculation as well as a negative but I don't know if you have any such bits. Maybe the original rear wheel. It might fetch £20 locally with a bit of a clean and the...

Presumably that Giant model is in eco mode to do that. Just looking at The Carrera Subway ebike at Halfords that does 40 miles in eco mode using the Suntour HESC system hub motor system with a torque sensor not cadence or at least not just cadence. That's a 318Wh battery so 7.6Wh per mile in eco...

I'm down in Yeovil a fairly rural town and to be honest I feel if cameras popped up everywhere purely to generate income from cyclists I can see them having a rough time. Teenagers who cause a huge amount of crime and whose first transport is a bicycle would not appreciate having to register...

It's a simple engineering fact, if you have a rider who is providing 20-50Nm of torque and a motor providing 0-100Nm of torque all going through the same chain its going to wear faster than a load shared between hub motor and drivetrain which are independent on hub motor ebikes. It's extremely...

Often a country's success is derived from politicians it has to be said. If you make a successful economy a priority at a political level and strive to achieve that then it will happen. After WW2 we had some great politicians who rebuilt our economy and it wasn't really until the 70s when we had...