On 2011-10-06, John Henderson (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
terryc wrote:

I thought is was 200 watts in NSW, but 250 watts in some other states
with victoria also requiring tha it didn't work unless the pedals were
turning. Perhaps that story from TimC about broken pedi-cabs was years ago.

One of the wonderful things about the uniform Australian Road
Rules is that individual states can make exceptions. It doesn't
often happen though.

It seems that Victoria has fallen into line on this one:

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home/...s/Bicycles.htm

"A motorised bicycle is not classed as a bicycle if:
the motor is the primary source of power"

You will probably find that it is deemed to be the primary source of
power if the motor can be turned on without pedalling. Hence the
pedal rotation sensors.

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TimC
I SAW THIS ONE SPIDER THAT GOT BITTEN BY A
RADIOACTIVE SPIDER AND THE SPIDER GOT SPIDER POWERS!
- Ranjit Bhatnagar