| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 09:27 - Jun 13 with 1114 views | Guthrum |
Limited to 15mph. They are glorified electric bicycles. |  |
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| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 09:36 - Jun 13 with 1068 views | WeWereZombies |
| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 09:27 - Jun 13 by Guthrum |
Limited to 15mph. They are glorified electric bicycles. |
The statement that no insurance is needed is concerning. It could still be possible to cause an accident with one of these and, if found guilty, be liable for millions. And go to prison if you can't pay up? |  |
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| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 09:49 - Jun 13 with 1028 views | bluelagos |
| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 09:27 - Jun 13 by Guthrum |
Limited to 15mph. They are glorified electric bicycles. |
Ah, which would mean you can't actually use them on the public road? |  |
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| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 10:01 - Jun 13 with 1000 views | HARRY10 |
| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 09:49 - Jun 13 by bluelagos |
Ah, which would mean you can't actually use them on the public road? |
You can use them on public roads - it is a free for all out there now |  | | |
| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 10:08 - Jun 13 with 975 views | Swansea_Blue |
| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 09:36 - Jun 13 by WeWereZombies |
The statement that no insurance is needed is concerning. It could still be possible to cause an accident with one of these and, if found guilty, be liable for millions. And go to prison if you can't pay up? |
As you can on roller skates too. Or normal cycles. I’m no fan of electric bikes/scooters, but I’m not sure where we should be drawing the line. |  |
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| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 10:10 - Jun 13 with 972 views | Guthrum |
| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 09:49 - Jun 13 by bluelagos |
Ah, which would mean you can't actually use them on the public road? |
Yes you can, same as with any other bicycle, electric or otherwise. It has pedals, so is technically electrically assisted, rather than being an underpowered, short-range moped.
https://www.gov.uk/electric-bike-rules | |
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| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 10:14 - Jun 13 with 964 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 10:10 - Jun 13 by Guthrum |
Yes you can, same as with any other bicycle, electric or otherwise. It has pedals, so is technically electrically assisted, rather than being an underpowered, short-range moped.
https://www.gov.uk/electric-bike-rules |
I have just taken another look after reading your comment. Those pedals are pretty tricky to see. Are they actually functional where they are? I suppose that as long as they are present and would be able to power the bike, they count. |  |
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| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 10:16 - Jun 13 with 950 views | Guthrum |
| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 10:14 - Jun 13 by Nthsuffolkblue |
I have just taken another look after reading your comment. Those pedals are pretty tricky to see. Are they actually functional where they are? I suppose that as long as they are present and would be able to power the bike, they count. |
Yes, I suspect they are more decorative than functional, being set so wide and far back. | |
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| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 10:19 - Jun 13 with 934 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 10:16 - Jun 13 by Guthrum |
Yes, I suspect they are more decorative than functional, being set so wide and far back. |
Also wonder if they fold away. The second picture does not appear to have them. £1.5K for a bike sold as designed for kids to ride to and from school! | |
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| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 10:30 - Jun 13 with 909 views | WeWereZombies |
| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 10:08 - Jun 13 by Swansea_Blue |
As you can on roller skates too. Or normal cycles. I’m no fan of electric bikes/scooters, but I’m not sure where we should be drawing the line. |
True, but then there are signals to other road and pavement users that you are not motorised and a sort of 'sail before steam' mentality should apply (I know it often doesn't...but it should.) If you see something that looks like a moped on the public road you can, reasonably, expect it to be capable of more than fifteen miles an hour. In a critical situation this can be the difference between avoiding a collision and causing one...an expectation of the 'moped' being at a more advanced position than it is actually capable of.
So would the answer be to allow these vehicles onto the pavement? It would cause more than consternation to some pedestrians if that were so. Like bicycles, I think the switch of the 'no taxation without representation' principle is advisable. It is important for all modes of transport to be catered for with better and more appropriate infrastructure, cyclists especially are very vulnerable at present and need to have the opportunity to use a track separate from motorised vehicles wherever possible but to do so costs. It is vitally important for cyclists to be politically engaged and vocal but the introduction of a bicycle licence would give much more clout to the activity i.e. no representation without taxation. | |
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| How can these be legal on UK roads? on 19:49 - Jun 15 with 613 views | WeWereZombies |
Just seen this news about the actress from 'Gone Girl' who has died after a hit and run from a scooter on a New York pedestrian crossing resulted in a head injury:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57488454
[edit] Actually this might not be relevant to this thread, just checked the Wikipedia page and they describe the hit and fun driver as 'a motorist on a scooter', I had assumed it was an electric scooter. [Post edited 15 Jun 2021 19:52]
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