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  1. flecc

    More EU Harmonisation

    I also agree and it's going to work both ways, finally catching up with the truck drivers from other countries who so often flout driving law in the UK, particularly tachograph misuse. .
  2. flecc

    Caraok electric one wheel bicycle

    Exactly, deliberately altering the meaning in the interests of accuracy of description. The derivation is of no importance in this context and could even be mixed as it so often is in English. However, both Bi and Uni are Latin, not Greek, so there is no change. The use of mono within a...
  3. flecc

    Why I like buying from Wiggle

    It's some while since I last ordered from Wiggle and they didn't give sweets then. However, the service has always been excellent. There are companies in other fields that I've had great service from, but I won't give any names simply because they haven't always been consistent in the long...
  4. flecc

    How many people are using there e-bike off-road?

    Your existing shots can be improved though, as below by using Photoshop:
  5. flecc

    Difference between the UK and Switzerland,

    They aren't in the EU so the registration documents wouldn't count. The Swiss were first with a high speed class, even before Germany, since they created such as the Swizzbee and Flyer F fast e-bikes. .
  6. flecc

    Very low step through tadpole trike w electric assist

    I'm fairly sure that Noomad does tilt and a careful viewing of the video does appear show that at later points. I believe it was this one I saw in an edition of Velovision some while ago which definitely stated tilting. As an earlier poster said, being that narrow it would be very unstable if...
  7. flecc

    Wheel Quick Release Levers

    I tend to have them very tight and fortunately have never damaged alloy frame or forks dropouts to date. However almost all of of my experience with them has been on unpowered bikes some while ago so I've no idea how much some newer frames and forks might stand. .
  8. flecc

    possible to hack controller to allow >15 mph speeds?

    Bike models and controllers vary widely. Some hub motors have restriction that can be overridden by disconnecting a pair of wires, others by different methods. Some modern e-bikes have digital handlebar displays which have integral methods for coding a required cutoff speed within certain...
  9. flecc

    And the kitchen sink

    . What I carry is shown on this page of my website. .
  10. flecc

    UK to Harmonise Electric Bike Law with Europe?

    No doubt language differences play a part in our versions of EU orders and that may account for the word "handicapped". The intention was probably what we would express as disabled, and I've little doubt that's the way our authorities intend it. .
  11. flecc

    Difference between the UK and Switzerland,

    The Swiss design e-bike motors and in some cases manufacture them too. The Flyer F crank motor is one such example entirely made in Switzerland and the newer SwissDrive direct drive hub motor I'm fairly sure is made there and has been used on some German e-bike models as well. Of course as I...
  12. flecc

    Difference between the UK and Switzerland,

    I think going for the premium market is almost a habit with the Swiss, one only has to look at the prices of their high end famous watch brands to see that. In one way I can see the validity of that, their costs mean they cannot possibly compete well with the bottom end of any market, so...
  13. flecc

    Difference between the UK and Switzerland,

    Former member EddieO tried that ones forerunner, the X bike, and reckoned it was the best e-bike he had ever ridden. And he had plenty of experience of trying the best of German products. They are daft prices like all Swiss products, but the Flyers are beautifully hand built, sometimes...
  14. flecc

    UK to Harmonise Electric Bike Law with Europe?

    Yes, the S class now has a limited legal acceptance in The Netherlands Dave, and as in Germany has a number plate. A home construction has to be taken though single vehicle approval initially. France is next to accept the S class in 2017. Re your wondering about the walk alongside throttle...
  15. flecc

    Difference between the UK and Switzerland,

    They certainly do, the BikeTec Flyers have always been reassuringly expensive. :) Off road Flyers similar to this one were well over £5000 three years ago, which was the last time I looked:
  16. flecc

    UK to Harmonise Electric Bike Law with Europe?

    And not the only exemption from type approval with e-bike relevance Dave, how about this one: (k) vehicles equipped with any seating position of the driver or rider having an R-point height ≤ 540 mm in case of categories L1e, L3e and L4e or ≤ 400 mm in case of categories L2e, L5e, L6e and L7e...
  17. flecc

    RANGE

    e-cycling normally continuously using Normal power mode with occasional High power mode I more than once returned 35 miles on a Kalkhoff Agattu Panasonic with it's 10 Ah battery, so about the same 10wh/mile. I was lighter than you but was also over 71 years old. I also demonstrated that I...
  18. flecc

    UK to Harmonise Electric Bike Law with Europe?

    There is nothing to stop a supplier specifying a throttle equipped pedelec model exclusively for disabled people which would then not have to be type approved. The exemption from type approval in EC order 168/2013 is: Sub section (b): vehicles exclusively intended for use by the physically...