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That's Royal Mail. There are other carriers. In any case they're allowed when part of a device and the device is an ebike power pack. See my post above CAA prohibition of Lithium batteries. Read my full post quoting what Royal Mail/Parcelforce say. Batteries are allowed as long as they're not on th...

Why not post the battery to the first place you're staying at or if that's not practical poste restante to the closest post office to your destination airport. Because you're not allowed to post batteries on their own. https://www.royalmail.com/business/system/files/Royal-Mail-prohibitions-and-rest...

Why not post the battery to the first place you're staying at or if that's not practical poste restante to the closest post office to your destination airport. Because you're not allowed to post batteries on their own. https://www.royalmail.com/business/system/files/Royal-Mail-prohibitions-and-rest...

:lol: Disqualifying all opinions that a road is unpleasant to ride if the rider doesn't ride it often seems a great way to declare all roads as great to cycle on! The point is how can you make a sensible judgement if you don't know the road and the local conditions? Why shouldn't cyclists use Worce...

How about a 5 year old, someone with limited mobility/physical ability, how about a 105 year old? If it isn't accessible for all then it's not safe enough and is unridable except for the confident and have good riding skills, even people with the skills will not want to ride on such roads simply th...

You are entitled to your opinion that City Walls Road and Deansway are "safe and rideable", but it's not one I share, nor is it that of a couple of people I know who spend their time actively campaigning for better cycling conditions in Worcester. You don't mention how often you have cycl...

Exactly! You lack reality and logic, saying it's safe, but that the motorists on it need educating. Both cannot be true. Far from being disconnected, my reply connects the parts of your earlier claims up. It seemed pretty clear you feel that RF has not "learned basic safe riding skills". ...

Describing something like this (City Walls Road) - a multi-lane road where motorists hare between a series of roundabouts and traffic lights - as safe for cyclists and rideable, while describing segregated infrastructure like this (the Embankment, London) as "counter productive" is, I gue...

mjr wrote:Previously debunked

So because a forum seems to think one way that is proof nowadays is it?

There are two small flaws in that logic: 1. In general, it's not a great idea to assume posters on here lack training or experience. I've been riding about 40 years and many of them know far more than me. 2. In this case, you might like to click Richard Fairhurst's username, then "Search user'...

Hi Pedals2slowly, Thanks for your thoughts on this matter. The more I read about conversion kits the more I come to realise that not all 250W motors are the same! The Bafang 48v SWX02 Woosh supply would appear to ideal for low speed grunt and with the 17A controller should produce in theory 816W ma...

Such a ban is very disappointing. Worcester's street layout is such that the pedestrianised streets are enclosed by two basically unrideable A roads - Deansway to the west, City Walls Road to the east. Incorrect, Deansway and City Walls are safe and rideable if you have learned basic safe riding sk...

Reality is the newspaper headline won't change anything, the irresponsible will continue to do what they do and the responsible will probably walk between 10.30 and 4. There will be no enforcement apart from a one day show and tell in the newspaper. Worcester remains at the bottom of the cycle frien...

And now the Nihola Flex, got to keep rolling

Bought a Nihola Flex cargo trike for wheelchair transport without an electric motor and fitted a 250W one myself with a 5 year old and well used 612Wh battery. It climbs 10% hills slowly with me providing about 200W as well :shock: but I avoid steeper hills if I can. Done 35 miles in rolling country...