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It's believed that a threat to moped sales is perceived as their fear from too much liberalisation of e-bikes or permission for the S class. The latter is the biggest threat since it permits moped performance with far less bureaucracy, hence it's popularity in Germany. I think it's the trade...

I don't think the Germans do in this respect, their pedelecs don't have throttles unless in the S class which is not bureaucracy free and has restricted access to facilities. I think the only way out that might suit us is an easy way to type approve, implemented by the DfT bringing in a non-EU...

Surely this is not in the hands of the DfT or any of their people Dave? Extract from Impact Assessment of the EAPC amendment regulation 2015: 1.5 The GB Regulations do not prohibit vehicles from being classed as EAPCs if they have "Twist and Go" capability - i.e. vehicles fitted with a motor...

Sadly they are sometimes also e-bikers biggest enemy, since they and the m/c trade have argued aggressively against measures like throttles and additional assist speed and/or power. Of course it's the trade that's behind this, not wanting e-bikes to make inroads into their business. .

Agreed, they can and do now, but the attempts I referred to were historic, quoted as an example of these German anti-Oriental attempts. In essence their attempts were more likely to be trying to artificially level the playing field, rather than offsetting technical inability. .

Excellent news David, I'm sure all the private members of this forum will be grateful for your combined efforts on their behalf and I hope you get more support from the trade than you did with BEBA originally. .

I doubt we need worry about this, the Germans are always trying to introduce anti-Oriental measures but the EU doesn't usually buy their arguments. For example they've tried a few times to introduce an over 100bhp ban for motorcycles on a safety pretence, simply because BMW cannot match the...

With any transmission of energy onto a road through a tyre there will be a degree of slippage, either actual through minute losses of adhesion or the momentary points at which a tyre leaves road contact over ripples and bumps. Those differences sum to a gain in speed and distance over the...

Nothing, it's ideal since it also allows up to a 1000 Watt rating, four times the pedelec rating so ideal for an impaired rider. .

Yes, definitely an answer and I've posted as such previously John. It would probably be best if the core component, the frame, remained the same for life. There's the largely theoretical objection that the changed parts might not have conformed to the original CE mark specification or maybe...

The trouble is that they haven't done that. We had our old UK law only allowing 200 watts with no mention of throttles or any control method, but of course that made the EU 250 watt bikes we bought illegal. Our fault of course, we shouldn't have bought illegal bikes. However, with so many 250...

You're lucky, the conversation could have gone this way: "Yes," I replied. "I'm going to use it on my bicycle." "Ah," he said. "Shouldn't you use it on your head?" .

I agree, my seagoing motor boat with two outboard motors was in the almost two stroke only days (only Honda doing different), and they suited me well, even though they were a make no-one had heard of. Best bet in e-bikes for sheer simplicity and reliability though is a direct-drive hub motor...

Support for our hard pressed dairy farmers, well done. Next time buy two pints and make a rice pudding! :) The Myrrycle will be fine with those bars. It's good having it out of your normal eyeline since if in vision all the time, the movements in its images can be distracting. .

The Japanese complexity from Panasonic is ok though. And judging from Yamaha's last decade's e-bike reliability, their new one will be ok too. .

I don't like thumb throttles, since I don't find them comfortable in use, hence my answer which was for the usual twistgrip ones. Regardless though, I still ultimately prefer the relaxation of a torque sensor looking after power levels while giving me some exercise, but that too has to be a...

I've voted torque only. Although well used to motorcycle throttles, the Hall sensor throttles on e-bikes are such rubbish in the crude almost on/off way they work that they have very limited usefulness. So the control relaxation that a good torque sensor gives wins. .

In your post have a look at the corner of the projecting end and you'll see that it bites against the nut surface if it tries to rotate anticlockwise to undo. .

Having the right saddle helps to concentrate and utilise the jet thrust too:

Renault-Nissan dived in to please the policians who were calling for the industry to get involved and clearly hoped to gain from that. They got the praise heaped on and some backing with subsidies, but I'm sure they must really be regretting it now. The overall losses must be immense and...