BBC Breakfast item today on illegally modded ebikes

[blackrat]

Your average bobby isnt authorised to pursue a two wheeler or request one to stop.

Too much risk of them hurting themselves if they fail to stop, and seeing as criminals aren't allowed to suffer the consequences or their own decision making alone the bobby concerned risks prosecution.

This is the actual reason I quit roads policing. Its a dull story, but if anyone is interested...

Sad state of affairs in woke Britain.

 

[Drago]

They may have been on their way to something more important

which may or may not have been a cuppa

Repeats of The Bill on Dave.

 

[raleighnut]

Your average bobby isnt authorised to pursue a two wheeler or request one to stop.

Too much risk of them hurting themselves if they fail to stop, and seeing as criminals aren't allowed to suffer the consequences or their own decision making alone the bobby concerned risks prosecution.

This is the actual reason I quit roads policing. Its a dull story, but if anyone is interested...

A bloke I know was riding on the motorway with his wife on the back when another bike passed him doing stupid speed, next thing he knew was a police car rammed him from behind causing him to break a leg and his wife to break both legs and an arm. Not only that but he was prosecuted and banned for a year and fined over a grand with the police refusing to believe that he wasn't the speeding motorcyclist and as he put it if he went over 70mph his wife would start hitting him in the kidneys

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A bloke I know was riding on the motorway with his wife on the back when another bike passed him doing stupid speed, next thing he knew was a police car rammed him from behind causing him to break a leg and his wife to break both legs and an arm. Not only that but he was prosecuted and banned for a year and fined over a grand with the police refusing to believe that he wasn't the speeding motorcyclist and as he put it if he went over 70mph his wife would start hitting him in the kidneys

Surely the cops had noticed how many were on the speeding motorbike, even if they hadn’t clocked the registration

 

[Drago]

Motorway RPU have had video Vascar since the mid 70s so the beaks can make up their own mind on that one.

 

[Bristolian]

"his wife would start hitting him in the kidneys" - My missus was banned from the pillion for far less violence than that. I couldn't get used to the continual screaming in my ear

 

[Alex321]

A bloke I know was riding on the motorway with his wife on the back when another bike passed him doing stupid speed, next thing he knew was a police car rammed him from behind causing him to break a leg and his wife to break both legs and an arm. Not only that but he was prosecuted and banned for a year and fined over a grand with the police refusing to believe that he wasn't the speeding motorcyclist and as he put it if he went over 70mph his wife would start hitting him in the kidneys

I think the bloke you knew was telling you porkies.

There is no way he would have been convicted just because a copper said it was him speeding. They have had VASCAR for a LONG time, and it would require the evidence from that to get a conviction - which would show the registration of the bike. And would also show the ramming by the coppers.

They might have wiped the footage (if that is possible), to avoid getting themselves done for the almost certainly illegal ramming, but then there would be no evidence of the speeding.

 

[raleighnut]

I think the bloke you knew was telling you porkies.

There is no way he would have been convicted just because a copper said it was him speeding. They have had VASCAR for a LONG time, and it would require the evidence from that to get a conviction - which would show the registration of the bike. And would also show the ramming by the coppers.

They might have wiped the footage (if that is possible), to avoid getting themselves done for the almost certainly illegal ramming, but then there would be no evidence of the speeding.

Nah I know the guy, I was at school with his younger brother

 

[wiggydiggy]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl2rzdljdko

Leeds CC is proposing to extend the pedestrian zones exclusion hours, and ban eBikes during that time with an expectation to get off and push.

The trouble is, there are already restrictions in place that are ignored. I can count on one hand the number of none delivery cyclists I see on an average day in Leeds centre, almost every one I do se.e is a delivery cyclist. And I guarantee every single one of the delivery cyclists will just continue to ignore the law and not get stopped.

Not that it affects me, there's no where to park my bike even if I did cycle into Leeds centre anyway lol

 

[classic33]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl2rzdljdko

Leeds CC is proposing to extend the pedestrian zones exclusion hours, and ban eBikes during that time with an expectation to get off and push.

The trouble is, there are already restrictions in place that are ignored. I can count on one hand the number of none delivery cyclists I see on an average day in Leeds centre, almost every one I do se.e is a delivery cyclist. And I guarantee every single one of the delivery cyclists will just continue to ignore the law and not get stopped.

Not that it affects me, there's no where to park my bike even if I did cycle into Leeds centre anyway lol

I wondered why there were so few hanging around near the bottom end of Briggate. They all seem to be up around Boots and Tesco Express in recent weeks.

Sounds good, but it's going to need additional powers being given to the councils own officers who are tasked with keeping the area safe. And that's a bit, I can't see any council doing.