Trike on A82

[oldwheels]

15.5 mph is the speed limit to which a legal motor-assist can power you * - but there's nothing to stop you going faster, but you'll just be using your own leg power.

*you can modify many of the electric motor systems to provide electric assist to a higher speed - but that's a mod that produces something other than a road-legal e-bike/pedelec.

I used a GTech electric assist and I found that I was consistently going at higher speeds than the motor gave.
The USA I think has higher legal speed limits for e bikes and trikes.
I do not have any assist on my own trike but if the motor can put you over 25kph you then become a scooter or something similar and that seems to be a bit of a legal jungle requiring insurance and VED.

 

[recumbentpanda]

Velomobiles do not necessarily have electric assist. Unassisted they are, I am told, well capable of 30 on the flat, and on gently rolling terrain.

 

[HMS_Dave]

Velomobiles do not necessarily have electric assist. Unassisted they are, I am told, well capable of 30 on the flat, and on gently rolling terrain.

A super human perhaps, but the speed record for a velomobile is 89.59 mph. I think that would be utterly terrifying...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

? ? If motorised should be limited to 15mph surely.

Velomobiles are not motorised, that is unassisted, and purely down to far superior aerodynamics.

 

[DRM]

The velomobile will be doing around 30 mph along that stretch

That might well be the case, but it’s no contest between 44 tonnes in a rush to get another load in, doing 56 mph bearing down on it

 

[oldwheels]

Velomobiles do not necessarily have electric assist. Unassisted they are, I am told, well capable of 30 on the flat, and on gently rolling terrain.

How long could they sustain that speed? To get where he was reported he would have already travelled at least 30 miles and some of it on a long upward drag. He has another 25 miles or so to get home and another steeper hill to climb.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That might well be the case, but it’s no contest between 44 tonnes in a rush to get another load in, doing 56 mph bearing down on it

Lorry driver will apply brakes and slow down. He’s not a character in a video game.

 

[oldwheels]

Lorry driver will apply brakes and slow down. He’s not a character in a video game.

I have had conversations with timber lorry drivers. One quite openly said he would swipe me off the road if I got in his way. Real knuckle dragger.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I have had conversations with timber lorry drivers. One quite openly said he would swipe me off the road if I got in his way. Real knuckle dragger.

All talk, unless you can point me to statistics on accidents involving timber lorries showing otherwise.

 

[DRM]

Lorry driver will apply brakes and slow down. He’s not a character in a video game.

Not if he/she is is distracted talking on a phone or changing cd’s, radio stations etc etc, anyway usual stupid arguments, I’m out

 

[DRM]

I have had conversations with timber lorry drivers. One quite openly said he would swipe me off the road if I got in his way. Real knuckle dragger.

Same sort of Neanderthal that drive tippers too

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Not if he/she is is distracted talking on a phone or changing cd’s, radio stations etc etc, anyway usual stupid arguments, I’m out

In which who or what is in front of them is irrelevant, they’d drive into the back of a flashing neon sign 40ft tall.

 

[DRM]

Lorry driver will apply brakes and slow down. He’s not a character in a video game.

In which who or what is in front of them is irrelevant, they’d drive into the back of a flashing neon sign 40ft tall.

You were saying? In the USA, not a good outcome is it?
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/...s-group-of-cyclists-on-retirement-ride-485946

 

[DRM]

Lorry driver will apply brakes and slow down. He’s not a character in a video game.

And another one
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/...lling-racing-cyclist-josephine-gilbert-476136

 

[furball]

There are limited potential overtaking spots on that road. I'm wondering how visible this would be from an overtaking vehicle point of view, particularly in relation t pulling back in.