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You mean you used to look like him? ;) .

I doubt it would struggle in most areas, the small extra weight would scarcely matter on the flat and downhills would be at least as fast, maybe slightly faster with the extra weight. On the uphills and into fierce headwinds it would be the winner every time. In a completely flat area it would...

One German bank isn't the EU, just a tiny part of it. Germany is doing well anyway, so yes, PIGGs it is, Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Germany all doing increasingly well and growing much faster than us. Completely the opposite of all the past doom mongering about them. I know this goes...

Indeed, Ireland's economy is also growing fast. Earlier in this thread I argued that the doom mongers were wrong about the mainly southern EU members who were struggling at the time. It was far to early to write off the EU or for it to break up in any way. We in the UK are the ones struggling...

Indeed, and what we need to do in the UK in preference to leaving the EU. And Greece is also recovering well, their economy improving quarter by quarter throughout 2017 and growing faster than the UK. .

Your Powabyke was one of a tiny number of pedelecs that were legal at that time. Almost all in use here from 1999 on were illegal 250 watts machines, since the 200 watt limit EAPC regulations deemed them to be mopeds. The 250 watt machines finally had a waiver for use from 13th April 2013...

French union members? ;) .

It's good to see all the positives above about the HMRC. Years ago I always found the old Inland Revenue to be one of the best government departments to deal with, to the extent that I was once moved to write to them and say so. I feared that the integration with HM Customs whose public...

Damian's post above mentioning category Q driving licences highlights another difference from the mainland UK, amounting to a second waiver. In both EU and UK law a twist and go pedelec sold since December 2015 is a moped requiring all the usual motorcycle stuff and at least the Q licence, just...

This one was flown overnight to me from China by DHL. The plane didn't crash, but judging from the case the landing might have been bumpy!

It seems so according to this post from Damian. However you need to check since that doesn't seem to match our main UK rules that I detailed above. .

That's different from here in the main UK. Here any motorcycle licence is ok for a 30 mph moped but only those whose car test was taken before 1st February 2001 qualifies. A car test passed after than means a moped driving test has to be taken as well as CBT. Since N.I. rules that your Woosh...

I know, but as I've posted they can't as an EAPC since they have no EAPC law. They should be type approved as LIe-A in N.I. That doesn't necessarily mean a CoC is needed, an application can be made for a VIN number and an SVA carried out then (single vehicle approval). However it appears...

They're ad libbing it, doing their own thing in defiance of EU type approval law and pedelecs law. I copy below the tail end of a mail from James Brown of the International Vehicle Standards division of the DVLA: Although ‘Twist and Go’ cycles will require Type Approval according to the dates...

There was an intention to create a new type approval class for January 2018. That clearly failed of course. I don't think the DVLA realised that the EU couldn't just accept such a class just for the UK. In fact the two and three wheeled type approval law made any such change specifically for...

Well our informal waiver overruled both the 1983 EAPC regulations and the Road Traffic Acts in our case. In both our case and your current situation, the problem was caused by a previous failure of government to properly introduce required EU legislation, so I see them as almost identical. As...

Much of London and quite a bit of Essex too is flat enough to be ideal SS territory. The Karoo's motor would greatly extend that area of usefulness, good idea. .

Sadly it looks like import registration and provisional anti-dumping duties are going to be enforced: Bike Europe link .

Appropos my suggestion for a waiver, I've just posted an example of how a Civil Service can provide a temporary solution to solve a problem, if the right Civil Servant is dealing with the matter: Link to post .

We don't seem to get many opportunities to praise the Civil Service in their difficult jobs, but here's an exception. I'd been finding it impossible to get access to messages from HMRC to me, despite their incredibly secure multi-layer logging in procedures, so I used a contact link to relay...