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Yes it's definitely nothing remotely like 18,000. That would be a bike shop for some 83 UK people who ride a bike. They'd never survive! Under 3000 seems realistic, a bike shop for 500 or more people riding. .

Sometimes one just has to rise to the occasion. I had a new e-bike's motor fail at 200 miles, so drove to the round trip to the supplier to have it replaced, just over 300 miles. Written off to experience. .

We're very lucky really, it could be far worse. In China the government have changed their minds a few times on which side of the road people should drive. Officially it's on the right now. As a result, outside of cities with clear lane markings on main roads, it's not unusual for people to...

Yes, we've got some of those in London Jim. But we've also got some cyclists who think all roads are contraflow! .

What you've posted here is undoubtedly true Denis, but I think the best answer is much better reliability and longevity. Deal with the cause, not the symptoms. At present too high a proportion of e-bikes have the worst reliability of any motorised vehicle type on the roads. That has to...

That appears to be increasingly true for all but the Panasonic units. .

Thanks. The reason I checked is that it's so rare for a car driver to drive the wrong way on a one way street, but quite common to see a cyclist doing that. .

But if the car was driving towards you, were you riding against the one way? .

Most of my reply was to Denis and the points he made about service. I'm not going to argue the specifics of your case since neither of us really know all the factors, but from my years in the trade and seeing all the ups and downs over 67 years I have a pretty good idea what is and is not...

I do and have posted it more than once. They stand on the fence. Wise old bird that he is, Jeremy Corbyn avoids saying he strongly supports exiting the EU since that would upset the middle class remainers he needs for election. And he avoids backing remain since that would upset his core...

I largely agree, but the trouble is the boundaries are blurred. Brexit is political and its issues involve commercial ones and commercial issues merge into political and legal ones, especially when government is so involved in commerce in many tangled ways. Taxation and tax avoidance spread...

The problem is that bike shops cannot survive on repair work, sales of bikes, accessories and spares are absolutely essential and the internet has messed that up. Already we are losing LBSs and it will get worse. We went through this before in the late 1960s and 1970s. That was due to bike...

Thanks for the explanation, I really thought you'd lost it! .

It still has to be a full size motorcycle plate, there are no legal smaller sizes in the UK. Still the same as when we last had to register assisted bikes from the 1940s to the 1980s. .

Yes, that was always going to be the most difficult part. Have they registered it as an L1e-B moped, since there isn't an S class group in the UK? .

It was definitely too close, potentially endangering you, though something I've been so used to in London that I no longer flinch or even notice. I doubt it's intentional, a high proportion of today's drivers have never ridden a bike and fail to appreciate that cyclists can need latitude to...

I think that's probably true. Over a decade ago only one known bike maker had e-bikes in their range, that was Giant. The larger Giant LBSs sometimes had one of the cheapest model in stock, but overall it meant e-bikes were an oddity which few of the public ever saw or were aware of. The...

True, just as they were lied to even more extensively in the referendum. But in both the truth was readily available for those with half a brain. I'll mention again the group of English women who days after the referendum were asked their views about the result by a TV reporter. They were all...

As I said, the EU is far from being only a commercial partnership. But you highlight exactly what has been wrong with Britains relationship with the EU from the outset, viewing it and treating it as something that it isn't. You don't join a golf club if you want to play tennis. .

Where crank drive units are concerned, only Panasonic have got this aspect anything like right. Firstly both series of unit have been far more reliable than any of the others, so a good starting point. Second, a failure within two years mean an automatic warranty new replacement unit with no...