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Jobbo wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 7:31 am

Rich B wrote: Thu Jun 26, 2025 6:43 pm less than 1000 miles over 2 years - he didn’t like it that much then!

To be fair, it’s so slow that he may well have driven it every day How many miles does your average tortoise move in 2 years?

Depends on the species!

But theoretically some of the faster ones could easily cover that distance.

https://tortoiseowner.com/how-far-can-a ... -in-a-day/

DeskJockey wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 8:10 am
But theoretically some of the faster ones could easily cover that distance.

Utterly ruins their resale value though.

mik wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 8:25 am

DeskJockey wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 8:10 am
But theoretically some of the faster ones could easily cover that distance.

Utterly ruins their resale value though.

Perhaps, but that's for the owners to decide on.

Mito Man wrote: Thu Jun 26, 2025 3:04 pm I'd just rather ebike.

Can't the Ami be de-restricted like most of the ebikes you see whizzing around ? They're meant to be limited to 15mph IIRC but clearly aren't in practice.

Sundayjumper wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 9:47 am

Mito Man wrote: Thu Jun 26, 2025 3:04 pm I'd just rather ebike.

Can't the Ami be de-restricted like most of the ebikes you see whizzing around ? They're meant to be limited to 15mph IIRC but clearly aren't in practice.

I see AmTuning will delimit it for £275. But would you want to mess with the ECU on a car you don’t own from a notoriously unreliable brand? Wouldn’t want to pick up the bill for a battery/motor replacement.

Sundayjumper wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 9:47 am
Can't the Ami be de-restricted like most of the ebikes you see whizzing around ? They're meant to be limited to 15mph IIRC but clearly aren't in practice.

37.5 mph!



Although with insurance already £stoopid, how much if you declared it?

I accidentally did something which may have made the Kawasaki Mule to go from 30 mph to 35 mph. It just so happened that I was doing a spanner check for loose bolts, as is recommended every 50 hours in the manual and I came across a bolt which wasn't fully tightened just underneath the accelerator pedal.
Can drive it on the 30 mph roads stress free now.

China now producing a mini knockoff that falls under the same regs

Fuck me, what an appalling caption on that post. Hard ignore from me.

Saw this and looked at an Ami for £2k for 2 years but, yeah, with the insurance on top and every road more than 1/2 mile away from me being a 40mph limit or higher, it would get frustrating/dangerous very quickly (slowly).

The chap who had one before and rejected it after 2 years for a full refund has got another on this deal:

Jobbo wrote: Tue Jul 22, 2025 8:12 am The chap who had one before and rejected it after 2 years for a full refund has got another on this deal:

Spotted that yesterday. There are a lot of “Mine did the same” in the reply’s.

What’s the definition of madness? Doing the same thing again and expecting a different result.