I honestly don't know. I see more illegal electric bikes in UK than in say Napoli. In Napoli the legal sort are everywhere, UK less so. Maybe the police are arresting them, maybe not.Sounds like Italy!
But on the basis of what you say, they should be seized by the police and the operators prosecuted for illegal everything. Why are they not? (An odd question, coming from Italy, but for some reason one expects a more rigorous application of the law in the UK).
I've never seen an electric motorcycle, I've seen loads of tuned/illegal ebikes though, doing about 40 down a residential street usually ridden by someone wearing a bally thinking he's proper ard innit.
They are then electric motorcycles.I've never seen an electric motorcycle, I've seen loads of tuned/illegal ebikes though, doing about 40 down a residential street usually ridden by someone wearing a bally thinking he's proper ard innit.
They are then electric motorcycles.
As soon as an E-bike is modified to no longer need to be pedalled it become an E motorcycle with completely different laws applied to it.
No it isn’t.I thought people were talking about things without pedals/no means of physical propulsion? as in a motorbike with an electric motor rather than an engine. what you call a tuned Ebike is up to you but it's still an Ebike.
Yes, they could be a great solution to the ‘last mile’ transit problem. A folding one would use less space than a Brompton. But you need a better network of dedicated and protected bike lanes. The danger is the mixing of pedestrians and bikes/scooters and cars.I’ve mixed views about them. … if they reduce private car use and congestion, that’s a good thing but not on the pavement.
These e-shiters are like clucking cockroaches.
They are everywhere and dangerous.
Before I fell ill, one rider cut across at a set of traffic lights. The lights were green for me.
A near miss but almost certain fatality was avoided as my car operated it's emergency brake system (VW Arteon) and avoided him.
This was at 6am, and dark in February.
All I got was verbal abuse from him.
I wished I'd deselected this car feature. He'd have been toast.
He had no lights, no helmet, no common sense and no respect.
I've never seen an electric motorcycle.
Is it just me that finds this deeply disturbing?
In Bristol on Saturday, the bloody things are everywhere and an absolute menace. Running red lights, up and down pavements, saw several near misses. One came within inches of me, going straight through a pedestrian crossing. Should have tried to push him over really but they just come out of nowhere at a hell of a speed.
Is it just me that finds this deeply disturbing?