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Their official name was Public Information Films, and they were cut as part of one of the government economies at the end of 2011 when the Central Office of Information (COI) shut up shop. All such films are produced by other non-governmental organisations now, like ROSPA for example. .

Of course that the best solution to controlling all illegality, but none of us want that do we? I, and I think Woosh, were aiming at the worst offenders, the rubbish conversions using cheap Chinese DD motors that are very fast and way over the power limit. They appeared to be a Daily Mail...

The days of only 500 charges with good quality li-ion are long gone. Some regular commuters are using their batteries for five years plus, which is over a 1000 daily charges. .

A plate with approved kits to be affixed in a prominent position. Not perfect but a way for the police to see illegality in many cases and also a deterrent. I didn't post about dongled shop bought bikes, only about kits having SVA. .

And easy to implement, but of course wouldn't ensure the bikes they go on are fit for purpose. .

Me too, kit bikes include the most dangerously illegal ones on the road and SVA would stop that abuse. .

Given the motors can cost £500 or more, yes, but overall it's batteries that are the most prone to early failure, especially if not looked after. Let's face it, e-bikes are not like cars and motorbikes which are remarkably reliable in their early years, have a well established market of known...

Yes, carefully chosen, and of course there are many kit bikes like it. If the Daily Mail type article does have any effect, it's most likely to kill kit bikes through them having to be submitted for single vehicle approval test before being allowed on the roads. The kit car industry in...

Indeed, and it could have as much as a couple more years in it, but I have throughout mentioned adjustments for known factors. The formula has to take care of all cases, it would be no use if set for the minority of high quality ones, and there's also the factor that in buying second hand one...

It's nothing remotely like that, the combination of imports from outside the EU and those from inside coming into the UK is some 62,000 now. That 300,000 is roughly the annual sales of pedelecs in The Netherlands and probably where she got it from, since she was quoting that country elsewhere...

Five must have been an after figure that I read. .

I fully agree with Woosh and yourself, there'll be a deal to save skins all round. In fact I think that's already largely arranged by both the EU and UK, but the pretence of there still being problems makes it easier to convince the hard Brexiters they did their best. It will be soft Brexit...

Adding to Woosh's post, at the time of my second prices write up many Lithium batteries had been suffering from short lives, sometimes very short. I killed one in 3 months and it's warranty replacement in 10 months. Also their cells were often steel cased so heavy. Therefore LiFePO held the...

The S class high speed pedelecs were restricted to 250 watts rating when it was first introduced and they were typically capable of just over 20 mph using the same motors and controllers as the 15.5 mph models, just not restricted. Since the law allowed the S class up to 45 kph (28 mph) there...

Welcome to the forum John, I hope the Freego gives you good service and puts the usual e-bike smile on your face. :) .

Thanks for the information on both fault and cure, my stab in the dark guess was right about the gap. .

A long time ago I devised a formula that has been followed by many since. It splits away the battery to be dealt with separately since a battery life is much shorter than the bike life but the battery is very large part of the bike price and expensive to replace. You'll find the formula post...

But as a recent meat scandal revealed, lots of the so-called cattle were actually horses! ;) .

But like all diets they leave one still feeling hungry afterwards. .

They did better because they had the food (chiefly lamb*) to sell and a huge rapidly expanding Chinese market for that food. We don't have any remotely comparable equivalence. * At the time NZ had five sheep for every human! .