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I saw a clip of "Blik op de Weg" (a Dutch version of Police, Camera, Action) and the Politie were stopping some dude on a (unpowered!) recumbent for being over the speed limit on the bike path - apparently they have "fast" and "slow" bike paths - That said I think the cops there take a pragmatic...

TBH I'd agree with this assessment. An increasing amount of "naughty" but relatively harmless activities in this country are being clamped down on - not even because there are armies of cops and bureaucrats watching everyone on surveillance systems, but because a fair few other citizens hate...

that Wuxing "traffic light" throttle with a switch is also on the Wisper (probably no coincidence as that uses a Suzhou bafang motor as well). in that configuration it turns on or off the electric assist altogether - which I think is an intentional safety measure in case the throttle jams on and...

just rain south of the Waveney...

the quality of the soldering in the battery compartment is not the best (indeed I had to resolder the wires on mine) and it could have got dirty as well so worth a check there....

isn't France the country everyone lauds for "not caving in to bureaucracy/nanny state" and having a jolly good old strike or riot in the streets when they disagree with the authorities..? - of course when you are the foreigner/immigrant things may be different.. :rolleyes: that said I would...

you'll get to keep the throttle anyway whatever happens as the planned laws aren't retrospective...

BS546 is indeed regularly still used in Malaysia for air conditioners and is the standard socket in India and South Africa. To further complicate matters, these plugs and sockets increasingly referred to as "16A" sockets out there :D Even in the UK it was still not uncommon to find working...

As far as I'm aware there's nothing wrong or illegal in continuing to use BS546 in either existing or new installations, although I've seen more recent lighting kit such as that used in the TV industry or that used for electronic dance music events with the European standard connectors. I've not...

much the same as the electric system. ISTR you saying you worked on stage lighting, and I bet some installations still use 15A round pin plugs and sockets when the new "Euro-standard" is to use expensive CEEForm/commando connectors as used on gensets, outdoors and temporary power feeds. I also...

what lights are you using? i've got a big Cateye LED (EL510), and smaller Revolution LED spot - (I often ride in unlit Mid Suffolk so find more than one light is useful, particularly due to the badgers..)

this is exactly why I didn't go for one, although I'm sure the earlier model was available with mudguards and racks. The real deal-breaker was the battery range, though had I still been living in Reading where I had a shorter commute I would probably have got one.

I'd just want a Wisper 905, 906, a Cytronex with flat bars (sorry but to me it just doesn't seem "right" having a drop handle bar e-bike!) and maybe one of the Panasonic based models but the one with has the cadence the "normal" way (so you get more assistance when you spin faster) - I'm sure a...

In my region lot of the younger people I interact with are becoming interested in e-bikes (particularly at the < £1000 price point) but actually want something "slower" than a scooter or moped for safety, plus they don't want to lose the health/exercise benefits of an e-bike and would tolerate...

so if a rasta man was riding a MTB with a bag of weed under his tam to sell to his mates he would be a pedalling peddler :D (actually he would be better off wearing a helmet with straps, as if he went too fast his tam might blow off his head and he'd lose the stash)

a lot of it is to do with marketing though, you say TGA to folk round here young and old and they think "mobility scooter" - same as Adnams or Greene King would make you think of a pint of good bitter.. its a big local company bear in mind families are often closer in EA than in SE England so...

what were the other two? If one is TGA they are still about but walked away from the market as TBH powabyke would then have been a way stronger competitor for the older market and they even if they made MTB style machines wouldn't have a rats' chance in hell getting the young'uns to buy their...

wasn't the interpretation of the law by Wisper that the throttle was permitted as a power boost but not to move off from standstill? I think Wisper and Powacycle can be configured in either EU or British mode simply by the presence of absence of components, indeed I recall reading here some "EU"...

I wouldn't say its "dangerous" but the emphasis on the UK system was initially clearly on saving metal (32A ring final circuit) and also preventing fires in appliance flexes (hence fused plug tops) rather than preventing fatal shocks. So the use of RCD's where appropriate on top of this IMO has...

which nations? I had always thought it to be the opposite way round and friends who are more into radical/eco-campaign type stuff always claim this. Certainly I had always thought the French in particularly were very quick to protest against authority (but their authorities are just as quick to...