Accidents waiting to happen.

[Blue Hills]

Thanks for your daring frankness.
As an ex vespa rider i also wonder how the braking is on them, especially in the wet.
It is more than an issue of how much force can be applied to the brakes of course.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Just seen more kids racing escooters up & down my road. To those who say it's 'fun'...may well be, but the road is not a playground.

 

[Milkfloat]

Just seen more kids racing escooters up & down my road. To those who say it's 'fun'...may well be, but the road is not a playground.

Would you say the same if the kids were on bicycles?

 

[C R]

Just seen more kids racing escooters up & down my road. To those who say it's 'fun'...may well be, but the road is not a playground.

What kind of road is it? Is it a through road or a cul-de-sac?

 

[ianrauk]

Just seen more kids racing escooters up & down my road. To those who say it's 'fun'...may well be, but the road is not a playground.

Restrict cars in roads, let the kids play.

 

[captain nemo1701]

What kind of road is it? Is it a through road or a cul-de-sac?

Straight through road, bisected by one other.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Would you say the same if the kids were on bicycles?

Most kids I see on bikes don't take chances with traffic as they know how fast they can go, restricted by their ability. E-scooters, press the button & you're off. Speed is exciting when you're young...and you are tempted to take more risks.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

1.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engla...F0Ow4ieBbrSUFvd-_xqn1Ek54ejw3UC6xdcfhBHQK9J0Q

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

2.
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/police-stop-e-scooter-rider-driving-m1-dark-3105731

 

[Profpointy]

Some e scooters are good at stopping with dual electric and disc brakes. Others are rubbish at stopping because they only rely on electric braking. If they were legalised for private owners use then standards of braking could be regulated.

I'd need a lot of convincing. If you had any sort of decent front brake at all, you'll be over the handlebars, and by definition a back brake is never going to be good.

It also occurs to be that the inherent instability and lack of stopping makes being slightly sensible almost self enforcing, since you'll learn to behave after coming a cropper a few times.

 

[Salty seadog]

What could possibly go wrong....

 

[Craig the cyclist]

I went to Berlin in 2019 , myself and my son had great fun on the e-scooters around the city over the weekend.

 

[swee'pea99]

1.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engla...F0Ow4ieBbrSUFvd-_xqn1Ek54ejw3UC6xdcfhBHQK9J0Q

Oops 😄

 

[Profpointy]

What could possibly go wrong....

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You may jest about the plug-socket, but a dodgy bodge for a failed circuit is a cable with a plug each end. You plug one end into a live circuit and the other into the disconnected one to bring it back into use. This works fine until someone unplugs it again when the original fault is fixed and you now have 240v on the exposed pins, which are invariable left to zap the unwary. Nearly as bad is two plugs on a lead where you need more current than a single 13 amp socket can supply - again not too clever