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This is for the "walk alongside" throttles which e-bikes can have to help when someone finds a hill too steep and wants to walk up it with the bike powering itself. This law actually long preceded e-bikes, being the regulation for pedestrian controlled vehicles like the walker electric...

Rather than laying low as one might expect, he's still forcefully denying that he was the source of the leak. If she's got this wrong she's made a potentially dangerous enemy. .

But he's been much smarter this time. He's immediately followed up with strong support for the Heathrow controversial third runway, so the media is concentrating on that diversion. He's learning! .

Well they will have one of two more chances, either another referendum or a general election. If the 52% don't support UKIP or its policy in either of those, it will be their own fault again. .

The latest news from their negotiations is that they are getting closer on agreeing to customs union, both now seeing the advantages. Not really leaving the EU at all, but being out anyway. As you say, how could we then leave what we aren't in? .

That's only a concession for having throttle control for 250 watt pedelecs in the UK, and it's not actually Type Approval or true L1e-A. The DfT is just using SVA (Single Vehicle Approval) to get round the regulations for this specific purpose, a UK specific tweak of the rules for 250 watts...

I agree, but a think a tag-along is also an option for 4 to 10 year olds, also giving the benefit of them able to take part in the cycling. This link describes the various tag-along options with examples. .

That's why we need a government with enough courage to do as I've posted. It wouldn't be undemocratic since the public still have exactly the same democratic option to vote to leave the right way in our system. They have UKIP and now the Brexit party as well, and there's nothing stopping other...

This time parties are irrelevant. The vast majority of MPs in our parliament are agreed, we should remain in the EU. As a parliamentary democracy and not a referenda one, we should scrap the referendum result and get back to governing the country in the normal way. And government should be...

It will be plenty as Soundwave has posted. The rating is a nominal one anyway, only meaning it will deliver 250 watts continuous under a specified test. Typically 250 rated motors deliver maximum powers around 400 to 600 watts, but more importantly when internally geared, they deliver it in...

No, nothing to do with the EU. We have just as many potential fascists, but only appear to have less because of our culture, being mostly less up front with our feelings. I've known some personally, the worst one not just fascist but Nazi and a Hitler admirer as well. He had a huge range of...

I share some others low opinion of "Which" testing and their obvious biases. In this instance they seem to have produced an almost exact copy of the Extra Energy test results, another biased organisation favouring European products over Chinese ones and making many mistaken assumptions. They...

It is probably possible, swapping out the motor for an internally geared legal 250 watt one, but of course that's rather an expensive way to do things. The motor it has is a direct drive one, forming part of the wheel in effect. The hub is the motor's stator and the wheel the rotor. That...

Yes that's correct, no cyclepath or shared pavement use is allowed for over 250 watt machines, they are confined to roads. .

They don't look like fascists, they behave like fascists if given the opportunity. And it's electorates that can give them that opportunity. Despite what some think in here, we have plenty of potential fascists, as do all countries. Fortunately they only rarely get a chance to practice their...

You can be sure that I do know the law in this area, having closely followed its development since my trade days many years ago. I wouldn't class breaking it as an inconvenience. Under normal circumstances it's unlikely that it would be detected, so you could risk riding one anyway. Quite a...

I don't personally know either of these, but Juicy do have a good reputation in here. Step through e-bikes without a rear rack battery at under £2000 are fairly rare, but maybe others will know of further choices. .

No , they both use the same 750 watt rated motor. That rating makes it a motor vehicle in UK law, requiring registration, number plate, third party insurance and appropriate driving licence. Bureaucracy free pedelecs operate under an exemption from being motor vehicles in the type approval...

This is what Google thinks: "The Adam Smith Institute is a free market, neoliberal think tank based in London. It advocates classically liberal public policies to create a richer, freer world." This is what the institute itself says: "Individuals with left-wing and liberal views are...

One thing to note Fizz is that the Radwagon, though looking ideal, isn't legal as a pedelec here, due to its 750 watt motor. Also motor spares could be a problem if they were required. The legal limit in the UK is 250 watts nominal. In your fairly flat Cambridge area a good 250 watt rated...