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Synthetic oil is definitely a big factor in reducing service frequency necessity. Those who stick to the often excessively frequent schedules can make matters worse very often since the less scrupulous dealers save a lot of money by using cheap and sometimes recycled oil on services. None of...

What utter nonsense. A friend in the industry was one of a team of long term test drivers, their job to drive a new model car continuously on the road to expose any faults that might crop up in consumer use. In the main all the car would get during its circa 100,000 miles in that yearwas fuel...

No different at all, don't you understand what "consistently ever since" means? All the many polls stayed at that 8% lead over the two years, and if you'd been paying attention you'd have known that. Why do you think the remainers had been agitating for another referendum over the last two...

You're the one who should keep up to speed. The polls on the EU voting went into reverse two years ago and soon settled consistently at 8% majority in favour of remaining. That was the result of people learning just how much was involved. And running a car for 50,000 miles without any...

Yes, we've heard all this wishful thinking about tech solutions before, but the EU has rejected them. And yes, N.I. will be the loser from the border's delays and costs. I agree with Sir Jeffrey, there should be no border since the majority of th UK came to its senses in time to change their...

I don't waste time on fiction, there is already a de facto border down the Irish Sea, agreed in the WA by the two negotiating bodies authorised to include it, the EU and the UK. N.I. has no authority to vary that and Lewis is just bluffing. When N.I. tries to export certain items to the...

They will do what they've already conceded in the WA that they'll do. More to the point was Oyster's question: "So just what is the oversight and regulatory regime in NI going to be? " N.I. will do as they're told, as the Irish SeaEU/UK border that they insisted they would never accept shows. .

Try posting again on this forum link. Otherwise just continue the subject in this thread now we've seen it. .

There may well be. Some e-bikes, including scooter style ones, from both Germany and China, do have EU certification for registration as motor vehicle. That is also Type Approval. .

It may be their misunderstanding, but it's more likely just their own rule. Note they also also say helmet compulsory for pasengers under 14 years, but there is no such law. .

As I've posted, the DfT have since made a ruling for Great Britain only that if an e-bike is taken through a form of type approval they can still be regarded as pedelecs, even with a fully acting throttle. In practice that means taking each one individually though SVA (Single Vehicle Approval)...

They are usable though mainly at low speed since they are very low geared, so they do pass the pedelec pedal ability test ok. .

The trouble is that there is so little knowledge of the complexities of pedelec law, even among the authorities. In this case they were justly concerned that a derestriction connection had been broken on one of them allowing it an excessive 22 mph assist speed. But they were wrong to complain...

To avoid this feeling, always remember the body isn't you, it's just the packaging that makes you movable. You, the person, are a set of electrical and chemical impulses in the brain. When they cease, you cease to exist. Just as you don't keep and treasure the Amazon cardboard box long after...

If it really is type approved with a valid certificate of compliance as they say, then yes it is legal as a pedelec with throttle in Great Britain only. That certificate if valid would also allow it to be registered as an L1e-A moped anywhere in the Europe as well. However, using it as a...

Quite a few bodies are needed for surgery training purposes, makes more sense than letting trainees loose on living people after reading the text books. I remember many years ago to maintain a machine, being lead through a large room at Kings Hospital with bodies laid out either side and being...

Sadly this is very common Gary. The problem is that it is mostly not illegal to sell anything illegal to use, so it's not easy to prosecute them. Thus we have over legal power air rifles that need a gun licence and illegal pedelecs purported to be legal. It is possible to report them to the...

Perhaps we should suggest they share them. :rolleyes: Like the people on that cruise ship shared the air conditioning. .

If it has a twist and go throttle from a standstill and power does not cease when pedalling stops, it is very definitely not a legal bureaucracy free pedelec Gary. It certainly appears to be illegal to me. If you were to pay a fee and take it to the test centre at Southamption to be type...

I think there is a lot of bluffing on both sides. Both know that the best way to placate the Brexiters is to let them believe we are crashing out so are happy to work together to give that illusion. But an illusion it is, the Withdrawal Agreement alone is a soft deal, as is the Great Repeal...