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Fully agree when we're speaking of UK customers, and it's long been true. Back in 2003 when A to B magazine was critical of the very low pedal gearing on Thompson's e-bikes, making pedal assist at over about 8 mph impossible, Thompson senior retorted, "Our customers don't pedal, won't pedal"...

I doubt it could be the future since the concept has a fundamental flaw in the intrinsically hybrid e-bike field. Electric motors for legal e-bikes only need two gears, or by a stretch three, to adequately cover the road speed range at near maximum efficiency. Cyclists need many more to...

Yes, there's lots of them Hatti, even with built-in showrooms:

Clearly you are outside the law on the assist speed cwah, but that police officer, if he was one, is badly out of date. The 12 mph assist limit was last in force decades ago, it's now 15 mph in UK law. If he is a police officer and does stop you again, the police have the power to confiscate...

The 36 volts is only nominal, and in any case is usually inaccurate since li-ion are commonly made up of nominally 3.7 volt cells in series of 10, so should be called 37 volt. The nominal voltage can be different for lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries which have up to twelve 3.2 volt...

It isn't just about EN15194, there are vehicle laws which must be complied with. For example: The EU-Directive 2002/24/EC concerning the Type approval for two and three wheeled vehicles, in which this following extract refers, is mandatory on all member nations : "Article1 (h) “cycles with...

They are available second hand as well, usually maintained to a very high standard by law and their annual inspection regime. One with heavily worn or damaged rear seats might be very cheap. Here's a link .

One problem in this case Mary is that the chargers on these also gave a lot of trouble, so it could be either or both causing the problem. I'm told Giant no longer supply replacement NiMh batteries and recelling services have not been very successful with these batteries, so it seems this 13...

The historical record is too incomplete for good enough comparative figures, but as your closing comment implies, they too have proportionally reduced. The source and type of all reductions related to road accidents is almost entirely due to human actions, still proving the point that we have a...

Of course, it includes every factor, but still demonstrates accidents are avoidable. Many of the actions by the authorities were within the individual's capability though, one can do one's own traffic calming and one can drive within one's vehicle's safe capabilities.

Are accidents avoidable or do they just happen? Here's some annual UK figures: 1960s - 8 million vehicles - 7500 killed - 400,000 killed and injured 2012 - 33 million vehicles - 1754 killed - 195,000 killed and injured So in rough terms and after thought and effort, four times the number of...

British Airways and some others got it right, they've been flying well to the south and north of the conflict area, once again proving how a little rational thought prevents accidents. There's no excuse for Malaysian Airways or the others like Lufthansa who've continued to fly directly over...

It's most likely to be the battery at fault, since two to three years is a common life for lithium batteries in this sort of price bracket. The failure is usually like this, the voltage collapsing as soon as a load is applied. It looks like a fairly standard 24 volt lithium battery but it may...

Despite no self-discharge, like any chemical device lithium cells do age with time, so that may have been a component in that case. However, complete failure is very unusual, so that particular battery may have had a specific fault such as a defective cell or inability to switch into the sleep...

Most suppliers say they should be charged at least every three months. This is to prevent cell death due to the discharge over time. In fact lithium cells don't naturally discharge, it's the internal BMS being on all the time that gradually decays the charge. Batteries from Panasonic and...

Indeed, it certainly wasn't what I had in mind. The solution of a nearby stables with an aggressive collie is much better. They keep their five bar gate closed and much of the inside of the gate has a mesh covering which prevents the dog getting out. All it's able to do is furiously bark at...

Of course I've never said every accident is avoidable and I would never pretend that is the case, but the incidence of accidents can be greatly reduced by almost any individual who occasionally suffers them. However, I do have an account of a way in which such a dog was prevented from...

Sarcasm doesn't in any way offset the truth in Tillson's argument. It is an easily demonstrable fact that hazard perception and attitudes to risk vary greatly, and that risks of having accidents can be substantially reduced if one is open minded enough to realise what can be achieved. My own...

Your happy smile will, very much the typical e-biking expression!

The colour change can be rather indistinct on some examples. To some extent it depends on the ambient light as well, daylight, tungsten, LED and fluorescent all having different colour spectrums that influence the charger LED clarity.