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Yes, definitely not worth buying over 250 watts if you want to remain legal. Also even private land use is far more difficult than it might seem. It has to be fully enclosed privately owned land to which the public have no right of access, so even a public footpath crossing a private estate...

It's not practical. There are two possible motor vehicle classes it could fall into. The first is Low Powered Moped, but since that is still restricted to 15.6 mph it's no good to you. The second is the full moped class, but to get an e-bike single vehicle approved so it can be registered as...

This is a bit tricky. As part of a statement about e-bike permissions, the DfT said this: The use of an "Off Road Button" however is strictly forbidden now and is specifically mentioned in documents appertaining to new and existing guidelines. It's the word "use" that's in question, and how...

A reminder, not all bikes need special separating frames to have belts. Those like this Smart don't, a replacement belt just drops straight on:

You may have missed my edit above when I added the gear inches, showing that you'll be perfectly ok on gearing. A 44 tooth will give you this gear range under the conditions I quoted, 30 to 91.6 inches, suited to average fit cyclist. .

Sounds it could be ok for your style of riding, a fairly high gear range. Also the larger chainwheel means less torque stress on the hub gear, it's having very low gearing that's their weakness. Assuming you have 700c wheels and a fairly standard 21 tooth sprocket on your hub gear, your gear...

Belt will never be as efficient as chain, whatever the claims, but today's ones are quite good and the losses are very small and not relevant on an e-bike where assist power is available. But the downside is that if one fails on the road, you're stuck, whereas with a chain you could often get...

Welcome to the forum Melvyn. Indeed I remember those 1950s days, for example one trip on a sunny Sunday afternoon riding a motorbike the 25 miles from Bournemouth to Southampton I saw nothing else in my direction and just two cars going in the other direction! Driving and riding could almost...

Lithium cells are not tolerant and need special charging conditions, so they need an internal electronic battery management system (BMS). The best way to change is to use the pack content of a lithium battery, but they rarely fit into NiMh cases, so the new battery often has to be mounted...

I think it's just realism with the basic spec batteries they are probably using. They often only perform well for about 300 charges before starting to die under load on steep hills and cutting out. They aren't going to be treated well after all, casual cycling users will slog the motors on...

Interesting that the bikes have lithium batteries which they report are good for just 300 charges! .

But for the many of us who have lower annual mileages, the true cost is very low. I'm ex-motor trade by the way, so know the position well. First, cars don't need annual servicing, that's a device the industry uses to give the motor trade an ongoing income. Any industry insider will confide...

I'm not accusing you of a lie since I have no idea what you paid. What I'm saying is that your post was misleading since neither I nor any other member of this forum will necessarily see such costs. For example: No guarantee that we also get such a high discount, Renault aren't currently...

You'll have to try harder, I'm not that easily fooled. The 10k you claim you paid was for the car alone, on top of that you pay a hefty monthly battery rental charge on a multi year contract. The current starting new price for the Zoe is £13,445, absolutely basic spec and not including any...

There's a lot of variation in how PAS sensing works, some are gentle, some kick in everything immediately. Torque sensing pedelecs often have the full power available instantly with a hard pedal thrust, I could slightly wheelie my Panasonic unit one with single hard thrust to get away fast from...

Today's Woods/Dunlop valves don't use lengths of rubber tube as the valve, they died out long ago. Instead they have a tiny spring-loaded steel ball valve where the holes under the rubber tubing were, so no rubber tube needed or even obtainable now probably. .

No, quite simply because they are effectively the same thing. Pedelecs have throttles too, exposing how nonsensical the EU position is. Examples: A torque sensor is a fully acting throttle, merely foot operated instead of hand. In fact good torque sensors are even more of a fully acting...

While I agree with much of what you've posted, I think your attitude to throttles, and also the EU attitude is far too hard line. When a throttle is added to a legal pedelec, all it can do is reduce the power from the allowed limit, it cannot increase it. So it's a safety measure, not a...

The Lynch motor is specifically designed for this sort of job and was used by Cycles Maximus in their trike taxi/van, so they may be using that. It's not a hub motor, it drives the rear axle. Although rated at 250watts, at near stall point it can exceed 4kW, so will climb anything, just slowly. .

My thought too. Their text on control of torque suggests they are probably using very high currents at times of high low-revs demand to try to deal with that problem, akin to the Lynch motor method, but of course that will greatly depress range. But I think these heavy load transport trikes...