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Similar to Woosh. On the road I'd regard it as preferable to the alternative which is temporary confiscation to be taken away for examination on suspicion of illegality. The "at home" second you list would never happen. E-bike conformity is not a criminal matter and a warrant cannot be...

But only for unpowered scooters, the 14 years minimum age will still apply for powered ones if and when permitted. .

It mostly depends on the type of trailer hitch. Seatpost ones are generally horrible since the trailer nose weight is too high up, unbalancing in the way that high pannier loads can. The popular nearside of rear spindle ones are much better, the weight low down. In both cases the connection...

And not the only one, but in a small minority. Our infrastructure is all too often nightmarishly dangerous for cycling, deterring the majority. As for enforcement, any government that tried to restrict car driving beyond public acceptability would find itself out of office in a flash, they...

Best include Boris Johnson in this, it was he as London mayor who persuaded the Tory government to transfer police control to him and slashed London Police numbers to the bone, resulting in them losing control of the streets. In truth of course it is none of these individually, so much as the...

It's just not important enough to them, just as in Northern Ireland where a simple addition is needed to the law to allow pedelecs to be legal there, but we are struggling to get their Assembly to actually do that. You may remember the mess here in the UK when almost all e-bikes were...

Yes I fully agree, but unfortunately the three things you list are done by almost all car drivers at times, so replacing the car isn't an option. Sadly once people get behind the wheel, the comfort, convenience and weather protection means few in the UK will use two wheels when that would...

There is no need for a committee since it is nothing to do with degrees of disability or age. This UK only ruling applies to anyone of any ability, so long as the e-bike is taken through single vehicle approval first at their own expense. That isn't easy to do though, at present there seems to...

I think that's too simplistic, given the huge range of things a car can do that an e-bike and especally a scooter cannot do. For a very high proportion an e-car is and will remain the best replacement for an ic car. .

It's no different, the clutch on hub motors is between the motor and the planetary set. The latter set rotates with the wheel without any gear rotation so no drag. In fact there have been mid drives with gears that had to be rotated by rider effort when pedalling without power, the original...

You may remember how decades ago there was huge concern about teenage pregancies and schoolgirl mothers, but now nothing is heard about that. It's because the teens today are so well informed and in control of their sexuality the problem has largely gone away: "Rates of teenage pregnancy in...

Nobody is normalising it, it isn't the norm, but not being the norm doesn't mean it's wrong. That is why the law is as it is, allowing the flexibility for all socially acceptable expressions of sexuality, such as a relationship between two people separated by twenty-six years. .

You really are decades out of date, everything you just typed fitted well over half a century ago, but not today. We've long been in an era of universal progressive sex eduation from quite young ages and todays young have their sexual identity sorted before reaching 16 years old. Today's kids...

Nonsense, you seem to be confusing the meanings of defend and support. Support in this instance might be thought perverse by some, but it's entirely proper to defend against obvious bigotry. The law is where it is for good reasons, reached after many re-examinations and gradual changes. And...

Which is entirely legal with consent. Of course you are being homophobic in selecting this incidence of a male to male relationship, trying to infer that a potential legal act is both wrong and indecent when it isn't. That something is politically unacceptable is irrelevant, politics has its...

Not in Europe where it is mostly the same for both genders. There it's 15 years in seven countries, 14 years in another seven, 13 years in Spain and 12 in Vatican City. At th other end of the scale it's 18 in Hungary. .

It may not be entirely his fault Ted. Unfortunately the EU committees that have been discussing light electric two wheelers in the L1e-A and L1e-B classes also discuss pedelecs at the same time with regard to some issues like throttles. So their utterances can be confusing at times, and the...

The problem I have with simultaneous shared charging is if it slows the charge time, rather unfair for the first one there. That was what gave rise to my sequenced charge suggestion which I think drivers would see as preferable. Even some existing single chargers are very noisy, when I tried...

Another thought on charger availability, better utilisation: For example, like many businessmen you drive to a meeting somewhere and find the handy charging bay occupied. But being a newer one it has a second parking bay and the charger has two connectors, so you use the second one and go to...

Legal pedelecs are emphatically exempted from registration in the mainland UK since they are bicycles, not motor vehicles in law. Even those that have a throttle after type approval in a DfT tweak do not have to be registered. .