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It's globalisation that hurts small businesses when they try to compete internationally because it greatly expands the range of competition, and the EU is just a part of that, regardless of whether its rules assist that process or not. The bigger, smarter, quicker will always ultimately win...

There is no type approval needed, these are specifically exempted in the Two and Three Wheel Type Approval Legislation 168/2013. The exemption is in Section 2.2.(k): "vehicles equipped with any seating position of the driver or rider having an R-point height ≤ 540 mm in case of categories L1e...

A very high proportion of murders by the supposedly sane are intentional for a specific purpose or an unintended outcome of an intentional attack for a specific purpose. The murders by the severely mentally ill that I was commenting are generally random unprovoked attacks on strangers, making...

That's a strange comment, I can't see the relevance since there is no comparison possible. We cannot know those 500 killers are sane since it's said that 1 in 4 people will suffer a mental health problem each year. My reference was only to Dr Allen's statement of generally good behaviour of...

Thanks Alastair. It was the tail end of the production of the ST in 2005/6 that got the 7 speed hub, also roller brake etc. They hadn't been selling enough to satisfy Giant so I guess the upgrade was to make it look better value. There wasn't much difference in the gear range, almost all the...

The mental illness patients who murder an average of some 80 innocent people a year in Britain obviously haven't read what Dr Allen says. .

This sounds like it was probably the Lafree ST with the SRAM S7 seven speed hub gear. Initially the ST was equipped with the SRAM P5 five speed hub gear. .

There's lots of scope already, the quadricycles I mentioned earlier come in faster forms like the 50 mph plus Twizy, or its 45 kph (28 mph) version. The latter falls into the Microcar class which includes proper little light hatchbacks and can be driven by 16 year olds. Construction basics are...

Taoiseach Enda Kenny seemed somewhat pessimistic about the border being able to be flexible when I listened to him earlier today. However CNBC have a web page dated 19th January 2017 (That's 3 days away yet!) with somewhat different comments from him. Here's the link. .

Unfortunately a large proportion of our electorate suffer from many unknown knowns. :( .

No need to worry, they'll never be seen on the roads or cyclepaths, probably never get into production. .

The Maplin ones use three AA batteries in each glove. They sit in a small plastic box with slide switch, loose in a zipped pocket on the back of each glove. The box connects to the glove lead though a standard DC plug, so easily adapted to an external supply, omitting the battery boxes. They...

Yes, they do say power while pedalling on the website for the pedelec version. They do seem to have acquainted themselves with the pedelc law so i'm sure it will be 25 kph (15.5mph) cutoff. The quote of 25mph might just be careless copying since the EU cutoff is 25 kph. .

I forecast exactly this earlier in the thread shortly after the vote result was known. And it will get progressively worse as we get deeper into the negotiations and departments are called upon to quickly examine the effects of possible negotiating moves. . The complexity of Brexit as it...

I think Dyson has always spoken nonsense in defence of his production transfer to the far east, see this post for example. .

All models of the Panasonic powered Lafree have a very early power phase down compliant with Japanese law, even the export models. The power starts to reduce from 9.4 mph (15kph) and continuously reduces until zero power at just under 15 mph. You can read how this works in my article on this...

There isn't any problem. The Renault Twizy is a Heavy Quadriped and they've been sold in the UK and used on our roads for a couple of years now. From January 2013 the UK fell into line with the EU in permitting the 45 kph Light Quadricycle class for 16 year olds, so that looks after the faster...

Yes, as I posted the 30 mph version of the Iris is a motor vehicle, it comes under Moped laws. It's the lower speed version that the 14 years applies to, since its a pedelec trike. .

The 30 mph version is a Light Quadricycle in both EU and UK law. It is a motor vehicle class with all the usual conditions. The 30 mph restricted version of the Renault Twizy also fits into this class, but its 50 mph version fits in the Heavy Quadricycle class. The origin of quadricycle law...

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