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It's not a conversion of an existing bicycle, it's a conversion of something that is only on the road without type approval due to the 168/2013 exemption. Adding a throttle breaches the exemption, making it unconditionally illegal with no path to legality. .

I'm quite sure that's true. Although our objectives are diametrically opposed, there's much we agree on. I have between little and no respect for all the politicians involved, UK or EU. I just happen to prefer the policies the EU has to reach it's objective of union, rather than the UK home...

No chance of that ever happening for the pedelec class, but if ever the DfT permit the S class, both would be permitted. .

Actually it's non-law. The reason for this being permitted is that there is no law preventing it. .

I'm not so confident, the Conservatives are well aware of Boris Johnson's appeal to the wider public and are likely to adopt him for that reason alone. They know he could win them a close election, just as he won two tory mayorships in labour London. I'd rather have Jeremy Corbyn as PM, but...

Exactly the same as what happened when Boris Johnson faced the same a little while ago. A Brexiter and another possible future prime minister! .

You keep doing this, selecting a few southern examples. I'm not arguing against that and wouldn't do. In any case, the EU has 28 member countries, not the 3 or 4 you keep highlighting. The great majority are doing fine, which is why they keep the EU going and so obviously resent the British...

This was from Flud's post, not mine: generally a better standard of living than any of our eu counter parts In blue because I quoted that to answer it, disagreeing with him that UK standard of living was higher. Obesity is very much a western world wide problem though. .

It was your saying "any of our EU counterparts" in respect of living standards that I challenged of course. As for French medical treatment, it's fact that many Britons cross the channel for prompt and better treatment for a variety of conditions. Often faced with months of delay here, they...

equal if not better health care: I don't agree, I can get far faster and better treatment for many conditions in France for example. The NHS has many failings, two of which I've suffered and won't forget. safer roads( albeit slower) : Agreed, but subject to the grossly excessive law that I...

Indeed, and I would have put Italy in the lead, since they have always lived that way, including long before the EU. But I see that being as much our problem as anything, our silly obsession with obedience to every tiny detail of regulation and maximum level enforcement. The UK's governments...

100% agree. .

As Arstu says, for individual use in sequence. The Impulse unit Kalkhoffs have the battery mounting directly onto the motor unit, making setting up for parallel use difficult. .

Agreed, but the end game of appallingly bad management by Greece. That long preceded any of the Greek debt related German and EU actions. .

That's your view, but we'll have to agree to differ on both points. .

No, that's not true. It will become true when political union is achieved and the core EU is one country. At present EU countries individually lend and borrow money, and bear debts alone. That's why it was Germany that specified the recent harsher rules for the Greeks, not the EU, though the...

Thet didn't have a problem when they joined the EU, nor did Portugal or Ireland. Instead they enjoyed a boom due to membership and loved being in. It was what they did then that has caused their problems, not in any way what the EU did Ireland woke up to it's foolishness and acted to correct...

Yes, but not totally, they've been stupid in other ways as well. .

I agree, their frequent diversions into military government was a large part of that of course, and it still influences the thinking and spending of their goverements since. As for who's responsible, my previous answer applies. .

I happily concede that when Germany saw the way the Greek government were speding their earlier loans, they should have refused all further aid. That's more a matter for Germany though, the EU didn't lend this money, they only encourage or discourage it, so yes, they also should have...