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Fishing isn't one of my things, but years ago I went with a couple of friends just to be out and about. A woman nearby with her two young children was trying to fish with bread as bait, with no luck, and the little boy came over and was looking at our maggots. I said you can have some...

I've got an excuse, I was multi-tasking! ;) .

Yes, I should have said high. .

All car speedometers are designed to read low, that's long been accepted, and that's by around 10%. Bo doubt the makers think of that as a safety factor for owners, helping them to avoid accidentally exceeding limits. .

The DfT have confirmed that the usual 10% tolerance applies to the assist limit, just as it does to all UK speed limits. The origin of the tolerance was to take care of minor variations in speed indicating devices like speedometers. The police have always operated in this way, generally only...

It must be localised since UK cycling has been at a new high with sales of new bikes per year in this decade rising from 2 millions to over 3 million with a peak at 3.93 millions. Compares with car sales at around 2.2 millions. Bike sales did drop a bit last year to circa 2.5 million though...

Don't be so certain. For over four decades our add-on cyclemotors were treated as full power motorcycles with all that entailed. That didn't hurt sales, they reached over a million on the British roads, some 4 to 5 times what it is now. Politicians act for popularity and the very simple...

While within the EU this almost certainly wouldn't happen of course, but now we are leaving I fear you could be right. The EAPC regulations for pedelecs could be scrapped and them simply treated as L1e-A or L1e-B mopeds. That would involve no legal effort whatsoever since L1e's are established...

Here's one for a laugh, the reason for the 15.5 mph (25kph) cut-off given by the MD of a major pedelec importer. To spare him embarrassment I won't divulge who: "At speeds over 25km/h, the engine completely ceases its support in order to avoid any friction that might impair power transfer." .

But there's more than one instance of this, it affects motor vehicles too. Mopeds have been limited by restriction to 30 mph, the current law saying 28 mph, but drop into neutral downhill and you'll easily double that or more depending on the hill. So that's also assist limited, despite it...

Here you are: The DIY route The consultant route .

Fortunately not even a Tory government is likely to use the Daily Mail as a source for possible technical legislation. As we leave the EU the possibility that pedelec legislation will get any attention is practically zero, and that is the very big advantage of being a small minority. We are...

Everything is politics, something that's too rarely appreciated. The EU is the political expression of almost all democratic Europe, the face in the mirror. .

No, horses for courses. The subjects he speaks most on in Question Time are likely to be those on which he feels confident in potentially disagreeing company. In the company of those very knowledgable about e-bikes he'd probably be more quiet or maybe express himself more tentatively. .

Welcome to the forum Mehmet, you'll find choosing what to buy interesting, given the wide range of choice on offer. .

Probably he's a motorist who hates any suggestion that car drivers should switch to pedelecs for city journeys and commuting and the possibility of the authorities agreeing. So a spoiler as a "nip it in the bud" tactic? .

Says a Brexiter! :D A tad of inconsistency methinks. .

AI. ;) .

And just look at what has happened with petroleum currency in recent decades! That has a destiny of downward decline for a long time yet, the last thing to be tied to long term. .

I don't see this as bad news for the EU, they'd be well rid of the UK and Sweden. They are the two countries who have ended up the strongest opposition to the euro and often been the awkward brigade. Had they joined in with it the euro would have been made an even stronger currency against the...