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The most gears an electric motor could sensibly make use of over a legal pedelec speed range of 5 to 15 mph is two. d8veh rightly suggested the Xionda as one of the hub motors that can compete. You may have missed the significance that it's an automatic change two speed hub motor. .

Choke? .

Given the low regard so many have for government, I think most will just continue to make up their own minds on the issue. And many like me have a equally low regard for Prince Charles. .

If they wish to be regarded as experts in the next meeting, they should get their terminology right. Since an e-bike throttle can only reduce the power, not increase it beyond the permitted level without a throtttle, it's a decelerator, not an accelerator. .

I've normally felt this way about Blair, but on this occasion I found his simple clarity of expression on the issue outstanding. I suspect that was what Trex appreciated too. .

There are occasions where it's a good option. I'm thinking of the very fierce headwinds often suffered over wide flat plains such as the Dutch polders and some areas of our Eastern Counties. They can drag cyclists down to a near standstill. It's a key reason why pedelecs are so popular in...

Agreed. I think the fact that he's spent much of his time since stepping down in giving large numbers of talks internationally has polished his ability in this respect. .

I don't disagree with any of this, but I don't ride 1 in 3 stony climbs. The essential fact is that changing down with a CD unit to use less current means slower speeds. On my powerful hub motor bikes I use more power and climb much faster in consequence. As Trex remarks, powerful hub motors...

I appreciate that, but that Panasonic rear hub motor has a perfectly acceptable range, comparable with it's competitors. Yes it can use more current when climbing, but at higher speeds and therefore a shorter time. The rest of the time it's using no more current than any other. CD ranges when...

It was possible to know at the time, since I certainly understood the nature of the committment, but one needed to look beyond the superficial news. I agree we should have joined at the outset, then all the present troubles would not have occurred. Adding the euro would have made it much...

Not if the design is right, as D8veh said, try a bike with the Panasonic rear hub motor and you'll see what we mean. The other day I drove a Nissan Leaf full electric car. The 0 to 60 was reasonable at around 11 seconds, but the 0 to 30 was in hot hatch territory, the take-off really...

True here to, but that doesn't alter the legal mixed message I commented on. .

The trailer looks a bit like some of the trailers made by the Fran Wheel Enterprise Company of Taiwan, which are normally all steel, having similar surround "fences" and tow bar arrangement. The discounters Cycle King used to sell some a few years ago. .

Not so. We gave you in New Zealand some of our Bombus terrestris bumblebees since your native insects were somewhat incompetent, the tomato plant in particular unable to live there. They loved it there and thrived, enabling New Zealand to eventually have a healthy and lucrative business...

It's been tried many times, but usually with little success. The big disadvantage is the to regenerate means no internal freewheel, which means drag whenever cycling without power. That's at all times when over 15.5 mph of course. That makes it very unpopular. Regen recovery rates on bikes...

Nothing whatsoever to do with any toes, neither Tom's nor mine. ;) .

Showing that wandering off topic does have a value. :) Variety. .

I do love our language, it's our greatest gift to the world. .

Thanks. At least it will save possible embarassment to those who thought it was something to do with horse riding. :) .