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Indeed it does, it tells me that trader likes to be seen as squeaky clean, as any responsible business does. For the same reasons traders do not take part in the Endless Sphere forum. That doesn't in any way illustrate that illegality is a major issue. It simply isn't, the vast majority of...

In our case that's the reverse of the truth. At one time power assisted pedal bikes had to be registered with number plates front and rear, VED with tax disc, third party insured and a full motorcycle licence was necessary. In stages all that has been removed in favour of sanity and more...

Vanishingly small. In a world where large proportions and sometimes majorities of road users in other much larger groups are behaving in far more illegal ways, why on earth would the DfT or anyone else single out our tiny world for action on a miniscule minority issue? In these circumstances...

We are an international forum with many international members and to reflect that, we have a forum covering bikes that are not UK/EU legal. That's one reason why posts in this subject are not banned As for the representation of illegal bikes in posting numbers, it's inevitable. There's very...

I'm afraid you and Flud are guilty of gross exaggeration, inflating a very minor issue into one that's all out of proportion. So what if there are three or four threads about illegal builds, what are they compared to the circa 150,000 electric assist bikes out there and our near 65 millions...

Why do you always express yourself in such extreme ways? I don't condone them and don't take part in the illegal build threads. My use of the term e-bike refers to those that don't conform in minor ways, such as those with grandfather rights to have full acting throttles. I also used it in...

Dead easy, the first i.c.s did fine without it,. Glow plugs work brilliantly once heated up. The one I've always used, the legal one which is my own too. Those that don't conform to the law I call e-bikes. .

Clearly not a pedelec, that word derived from pedal and electric. A pedic or pedalic maybe, combining pedal and i.c. However, we had a specific name for these long ago, it's an Autocycle. .

Except that a period of grace is allowed to sell existing stocks which then remained legal. For example the period when the new type approval law was first announced in 2003 was from the announcement on 9th May 2003 to 10th November 2003, six months. I believe the initial period announced this...

Where balance is concerned I'm a real oddity. I never fall off two wheelers and age has made no difference to that, my balance being as perfect as anyone could wish for. I'm even one of the gits who routinely showed off on motorbikes by not putting a foot down while waiting long periods at...

I would refuse any financial reward and suspect Dave would as well. Impartiality and integrity is far too valuable to be compromised by a cash reward. Personally I greatly value the trade members. They often help members who are experiencing problems, sometimes without any charge for parts...

I'm only going by a news announcement some while ago, never seen in print. .

The supply of lock knives is now totally banned, this resulting from their popularity in carrying out stabbings. For quite a while they were the weapon of choice for this purpose, so easy to carry yet very safe in use ( for the user!). .

Impossible to be accurate about this, but almost all bought their bikes though the usual routes from bike shops of direct from the major suppliers. It follows that the great majority are legal Same answer as (1) above, As Frank at Powabyke often reminded members, this forum is not...

I think it was all of those, and essentially it was just a recumbent e-trike with cladding, an English velomobile. I think it resulted from Clive over reaching himself when he had the idea of making an e-car. He didn't think it through before announcing that intention publically and then found...

All very different cases and much larger and more important too. As for leaving the EU, I stand by what I posted. To get the necessary trade agreeent we will have to continue with a large tranche of EU laws and regulations, and all transport issues are a part of that. We already have Norway...

For a while Wisper merged with Freego, but later they agreed to part again. As part of that to establish a separate identity again and to establish that he represented some other bike marques, David Miall changed the company name Wisper to Amps Electric Bikes. He still sells the familiar 705...

I say no. If they couldn't be bothered to attend to the near 100% illegality for 13 years, why would they act against a tiny minority now? Pedelecs overall are a tiny issue in the UK, and the illegal use proportion is so vanishingly small, no-one is going to do anything about it. It's a...

But that isn't the case Bob, you can still sell them at present, as this extract shows. Note "Sold after": 3.2 Requirements of European type approval for vehicles sold after 1 Jan 2018 From 1 Jan 2018 all EAPC which are of the “twist and go” type will need a full type approval to 168/2013...

But we already have all that nanny state regulation now. The EAPC as recently amended spells out in full and considerable detail what is permitted. The Type Approval regulations emphasise that. And EN 15194 spells out in huge depth exactly what is technically legal. The only latitude...