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Night riding in the countryside is great with decent lights - you can take your speed up so much more confidently with the advance warning you get by seeing headlights of oncoming cars a way in advance :). Unfortunately I didn't manage to escape the urban perimeter tonight but other than the...

These brakes are ace and the quick-release lever makes removing rear wheel very easy. They need to be adjusted spot on to give their best though .. if your rear dropouts have as much play as mine do, it's a load of fiddling about every time you adjust the chain tension or change a tyre...

Lost the will to live several posts back and decided to do what I really love - take my bike certified as EN15194-compliant out for a ride. It proved to be a most rewarding decision and I am still here to tell the tale, thankfully handcuff-free for another day. In the end, life is too short to...

Happy to have a chat, Frank. Are you off till the New Year now or will you be around any time over the Christmas period ?

Prize for post of the week goes to ..... Old_Dave :o

Very helpful - many thanks. :cool:. I'll certainly bear this in mind come Springtime ;) ... but if they aren't bringing the bikes to market until April that's a couple of months too late for me as I need another bike by beginning of March latest. Looks like a plan B will most probably be needed...

Anyone actually riden both of the above bikes and able to offer some 1st hand experience of which bike offers better performance : 1) Up challenging hills of up to say 2 miles 2) On longer moderately hilly rides 3) in stop/start town driving There is a huge price differential and I am asked to...

I'm sure it comes as no surprise that my tongue was wedged firmly in my cheek when typing that ! Shame really, since a small voluntary industry levy off e-bike sales over the last few years could have added up to a significant fund with which to purchase legal defence insurance - and have some...

That looks like just the job to fit to a road bike and tune up the power ;).

^^ only possible bankruptcy paying a pack of liers (sorry ... LAWYERS) to argue the point :o

Yet ignorance of it is no defence in criminal matters.... and a situation persists where the government has left the door open to criminalize its citizens for riding a bicycle which is legal under EU law that UK undertook to adopt and remove conflicting legislation by 2003 and has failed to do...

For the sake of argument, if someone was convicted of driving without insurance and driving without a licence or in contravention of a court disqualification on an EU-legal bike then I would sincerely hope that everyone in the industry would rally round to fund the cost of them suing the...

"Motor: 250 Watt Brushless Hub Motor Legalities: No road tax or driving licence required. Insurance or helmet also not required " 50:50 ? Phone a friend ? Ask the audience ?

1. They have made the law so difficult to navigate through that it has taken a virtual detective job on this forum to expose the actual status quo in a way that any user can understand (and it seems some importers) 2. UK government is obliged to enact EN15194 into domestic legislation so as...

Surely it is down to the CPS rather than the DfT ? Where are these written assurances and how much reliance can be placed on them ? I can see the headlines now .... "Britain's procrastination over fulfilling its duties to incorporate EN15194 into legislation risks criminalizing a generation of...

Perhaps it is time for a different approach. Didn't David Cameron (or any other Minister) recently have a spin on an eBike ? If so and if it was on a public highway, and it can be demonstrated that it fell outside of the present legaislation a list of the traffic offences and possible criminal...

My heart bleeds for them. All they have to do is issue a specific exemption for Type-approved bikes conforming to EN***** - can be passed in a few weeks and job done. Over-complication and procrastination serve a certain purpose well - namely less achieved and more time served, so more jobs...

Without wanting to state the obvious, isn't it about time the waste of space lazy f*ckers in government departments got off their waste of space a*ses and sorted something as in interim measure for the next (completely unnecessary) five years. After all we all pay for them to sit around doing...

I'd agree with Philip - you can't really go wrong with 2 x C8 Agattus one in step-through and one regular. £1,536.50 each apparently now including UK delivery (30% discount). For that money they are a steal especially with the decent battery. OK you don't get 11 gears or the sophisticated...

I think you can safely bank on no factory-supplied lights being adequate ... I've a front dynamo powered set on my bike which as fitted lights go are definitely high end but I use them as well as (not instead of) a strong set of bike lights (even on lit roads for being seen). You can get a very...