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This has been attempted a few times, but with little success. It doesn't take into account new makes as they arrive as you've found, or the fact that many change their bikes or have more than one e-bike but aren't allowed to edit out or vote again. Add to that very few entering their e-bike...

Here's more good news for e-bikes, stronger bike parts. Forgive the Dutch, when saying exploding they mean enlarging/expanding, we don't want our parts exploding :(: Link here .

More likely March and August, that's the months when most buy for the new registrations. .

The start of the 1950s saw the first realisations of recovery from the war, the 1960s the start of that boom decade, and the start of the 1970s the summation of that boom. But 1980 introduced the Thatcher recession, so the peak came in the mid 1980s instead as recovery of employment took hold...

The motor is definitely disconnected Arstu. With the older large chainwheel Bosch I believe the chainwheel is entirely independent like the Panasonic units, so no gears or motor engaged when pedalling with power off. The new unit with the small chainwheel of necessity has it's own orbital gears...

Practical where riding without helmets is allowed, as in this example Trex. But not here. Anyway, the London pedicabs are a tourist market attraction, needing to carry two or three passengers. .

Schwalbe are unrepresentative in the sense that they are a small player in the bicycle market, very much at the expensive end. The fact that they are American also influences the size range they offer. Try such as Continental, who make a Marathon Plus equivalent, and other European companies...

Perfectly legal under current UK law Nigel, since that permits independent throttle control as well. The DfT intends to retain that benefit for the UK in the forthcoming harmonisation with EU law. Most e-bike motors are disengaged when only pedalling, internally geared hub motors and crank...

Nowhere near enough Dave, pedicabs generally weigh very much more, given the strength necessary to make them safe with three or four of any weight on board. The type of very high torque but legal motor they need, such as the heavy Lynch, is best served by adequate lead acid batteries which only...

When writing Dave, can you make clear that you are happy with no weight limit on e-tricycles. I would hate to see a continuation of the very restrictive 60 kilo limit for those, preventing anyone having an e-rickshaw. No country in mainland Europe finds that's necessary. .

Only because there is no regulation permitting S class e-bikes in the UK. Once and if we get a regulation permittig them, there will no doubt be restrictions. They will certainly require insurance which in turn automatically means number plates as a means of control. That is unavoidable. .

As mentioned, we almost all walk at least some of the time, so on that basis there are over 8 million London residents, plus out-of-towners and a huge number of visitors. Therefore the numbers of accidents involving pedestrians doesn't really reflect a high rate. Also there is a big distortion...

Could be a hollow victory though, since we don't know conditions they'd set for such things as insurance etc., the setting of conditions being a matter for each country. With the DfT strongly opposed to more speed or power, the possibility of them requiring such things as CBT and motorcycle...

Allen made a specific mention of London, and obviously traffic densities and interactions are highest in this city. Therefore I answered on that basis, to illustrate probably the worst we as cyclists could expect in Britain. I think that's better than playing the authorities favourite game of...

When this forum started in 2006 the few of us in at the outset were determined that it would be a courteous one, not prone to the very poor behaviour so common elsewhere on the internet. That intent was shared by Russell Scott who founded the site, and with his gentle touch guidance and...

If you can it's a good solution, the same advice is given to owners of the second generation Panasonic unit when the motor sprocket starts jumping the chain though wear. Reversing extends it's life. .

There's no stats for car mileages related to London, but there are total numbers for the various groups affected by accidents. So we can compare those and adjust the rates both for gross numbers, and risk rates according to our opinions. From the latest annual figures available (2012)...

Or fully integrating it into a completely democratic federation of Nation States? .

I've researched this before and found very little, and certainly nothing reliable. TfL reckon there are now some 570,000 daily cycle journeys in London. That will be almost all on weekdays of course, much of it commuting. So all we can do is estimate an average journey length and use that for...

But that reverse can be inverted. There were some one million cars in Britain in the early to mid 1930s, but they were lethal, over 6000 people a year being killed on the roads in this country. Now there are some 32 million cars, but road deaths overall are as low as 1700 a year. With cars...