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.. the free bike scheme in Dublin has been a remarkable success. It was modelled on the one in Vannes , France. And uses the model of a credit card to register, a yearly charge, nominal, and a free 30 minutes per usage., Encouraging the user to use them for one trip and then placing them back...

What do you want it for.?.. We don't need the answer but you have to ask yourself that question. .. putting it simply there are three bits to an ebike., And each costs about the same. The bike, the motor and the battery. Now where you to go to a shop and buy an ordinary bike at 175, what would...

... Didn't French protection have a different meaning years ago?

I came accross some postings somewhere about having multiple windings in each of the coils and then switching them from series to parallel,depending on the speed , giving the effect of low speed and high speed windings as required. That is an innovation which would increase the efficiency band...

.. that looked exciting, I'm not into MTB , but that could tempt me...!

Fair enough. On an allied topic do you have information on the improvements to efficiency of brushless motors in ebikes by advances in controller design. Just curious, What I have in mind is whether it would be advantageous to dynamically increase or decrease the voltage from the battery by...

.. just curious but where do you get that wind loss figure?

.. when you change sides you do it with a vengence!! The analogy works for me, but then I was just a neighbor, and the current position of the tree worked fine for me, shielded me from the Noonday sun in summer and helped block winds in autumn. Of course my neighbor never asked me my view. Its...

What you mean UrbanMover "was",? it still is and it's ears would be burning with embarrassment, if it could hear me singing it's praises. It has small wheels and is pretty nifty on the local steep slope up from the road. It only wants a fresher battery and it will be good for another decade. I...

.. we can speculate and pontificate about the law here, but until a ruling is given in a court case , in this instance, Belfast, it is value less.

With lashings of salad cream Fair play!!

.. they are not really making it up as regards battery maintenance. But that's no problem, just charge it up every three months even if the bikes not used, and keep it at moderate temperature. The other question, as d8veh, has referenced is much more complex. To answer it you have to add...

.. except if you were eating only salads for a year , you wouldn't have the energy to lift the cup of tea.... You need a few spuds.

.. will we get into the no man's land of using crank drive and the gears... Going real slow in a very low gear with a crank motor allows the motor develop its full mechanical power. Going real slow on a hub motor is wasteful as the majority of the electrical energy is converted to heat...

.. that was not exactly the context of my quote... I had referred to epacs earlier , . My context was in the supremcy of EU law , why there had been no reference.

.. except that the eapc regulations are exactly the EU regulations. The problem is that civil servants can only work within the rules they have been given by their superiors. Unless there is a specific law , there are no regulations. In this case nobody in NI told them or was prepared to make...

.. That advice might be suitable for Tommie etc al who are viewing these pages, but not for the thousands others . Perhaps the bike shops should send out a circular on the lines quoted , to their registered customers. It is a dilemma for them.

Flecc, I am convinced by your analysis, and I suspect that the high court in Belfast would also be, when that arguement is put by a barrister ,following an appeal. However I don't think that a magistrate in one of the petty sessions would see the distinction. They will read the declaration by...

Very clearly explained. The switches used in these controllers are remarkable devices, capable of switching from totally non conducting to fully conducting .. a fraction of an ohm in ten nanoseconds. That's one thousandth of a million of a second, and off again just as fast. They only absorb...

..That was not intended as a humourous comment, I am sorry it was perceived as such. It was intended to be soladarity for people like Tommie, who through no fault of their own, find themselves on the wrong side of the law. Amps posting on the other thread just shows how intractable this will be..