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There are countless websites that demonstrate how to tamper with the speed limiter on mobility scooters to unlock more performance. However, there are many reasons why modifying a scooter in this way is a bad idea. Insurance invalidated If you have modified your road-going mobility scooter so its top speed is more than 8mph, your insurance...

If you're one of five million British motorists heading to France this year, take time to brush up on local rules. For example, the speed limit on French secondary roads - the two-lane highways that crisscross 400,000 km of the country - has been reduced to 80km/h. The French government imposed the new limit to reduce road deaths, which...

"The bicycle is indeed the great leveller,” extolled The Century magazine in 1894. “It puts the poor man on a level with the rich, enabling him to ‘sing the song of the open road’ as freely as the millionaire.” Better still, the equality offered by cycling goes beyond the socioeconomic. Research by Wheels for Wellbeing reveals that 75 per...

An increasing number of car drivers rely on dash cams and reversing cameras, and now the same tech is making its way into the world of mobility scooters. Mobility scooter dash cams As a provider of mobility scooter insurance, we have customers who've faced the threat of prosecution based on little more than hearsay. Of course, third party...

With an estimated two million e-bikes in the UK, and sales on the up, battery fires are on the increase. However, they occur at a rate of less than one per day. To put that in perspective, 100,000 cars go up in flames every year resulting in the death of around 100 people. That's nearly 300 vehicles fires every day. In other words, a car is...

When the busiest junction of the M25 closed this weekend for the first time since its opening in 1986, our thoughts turned to office decor. Hanging above our printer is a photograph of a Dutch motorway, the road empty but for four children on bicycles. For three months in late 1973, the Dutch government banned the use of private motor...

Smartphones may have become de facto cycle computers, but what if you're interested in knowing the basics about your ride without relying on an app? A simple cycle computer like the CatEye Quick might be just the ticket. It's unusual for sporting cyclists to ride without a...

This was the week the UK government tied itself in knots over its definition of extremism. Here's hoping any commitment to tackle 'the promotion of an ideology based on violence' leads to an effective campaign against road danger. As a society, we've become so inured to road danger, deaths rarely make the news. Writer George Monbiot...

Mobility scooters offer a social lifeline for around half a million people here in the UK, and yet two-seater models remain illegal. The same goes for our own cosy mobility scooter caravan pictured above. Tesco gave us permission to test drive it down their aisles, but mobility scooter trailers remain illegal to use on footpaths or the...

At least one third of London roads are now subject to a 20mph limit. However, 87% of drivers break that law when they have an opportunity to, according to TfL research. Here at the ETA, we’re proud to have helped coin the phrase Twenty's Plenty, and thrilled that over the years it evolved into 20’s Plenty for Us, a campaign group we...