BBC Breakfast item today on illegally modded ebikes

[ktmbiker58]

I just found this article: https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/hundreds-arrested-in-week-long-crackdown-on-suspected-illegal-working/

So it's less of a crackdown on illegal bikes, and more of a illegal working crackdown. So yes it's good that the illegal bikes were seized, but perhaps that could be the main reason for a crackdown next time.

I was wondering where my pizza had got to

 

[Electric_Andy]

It's odd that they have let it reach pandemic proportions before finally cracking down, rather than confiscating and educating early on when it would have been less work.

 

[classic33]

It's odd that they have let it reach pandemic proportions before finally cracking down, rather than confiscating and educating early on when it would have been less work.

Maybe, like Ireland, they're about to crack down on the use of them. Maybe one near miss or accident too many.
It was promised as part of a larger package on them a few years ago.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

It's odd that they have let it reach pandemic proportions before finally cracking down, rather than confiscating and educating early on when it would have been less work.

Yes - very much so
a few years ago a concerted crackdown and education effort in the media might have stopped a lot of it

but now a lot of people think they are normal and have no clue about the actual laws