Does the Home Office know what an eBike/EAPC actually is?

[Boopop]

I'm not convinced they do. All eBikes are legal. EBikes that aren't legal, are not eBikes/EAPC's, they're motorbikes. Am I going mad?

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17GShdvt4y/

 

[Drago]

The Home Orifice couldn't find their own arses with a mirror on a stick.

 

[Punkawallah]

“Dangerous and illegal e-bikes have no place on our streets.”
Therefore dangerous e-bikes, or illegal e-bikes, do? Asking for a friend.

 

[Punkawallah]

The Home Orifice couldn't find their own arses with a mirror on a stick.

One of ‘Angela Two Homes’ initiatives?

 

[mjr]

“Dangerous and illegal e-bikes have no place on our streets.”
Therefore dangerous e-bikes, or illegal e-bikes, do? Asking for a friend.

Grammar and logic aren't famous friends of the Home Office PR department either, sadly.

 

[mjr]

I'm not convinced they do. All eBikes are legal. EBikes that aren't legal, are not eBikes/EAPC's, they're motorbikes. Am I going mad?

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17GShdvt4y/

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Might your MP be willing to hold the Home Office to account for this unnecessary demonisation of legal e-bikes by blurring the line with motorbikes? www.WriteToThem.com

I hope you've left a suitable objecting comment on fakeberk.

 

[Alex321]

I'm not convinced they do. All eBikes are legal. EBikes that aren't legal, are not eBikes/EAPC's, they're motorbikes. Am I going mad?

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17GShdvt4y/

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That is for your definition of an Ebike. It isn't a legal definition.

Legally, there is no such thing defined as an ebike. They are EAPCs, and any electric powered cycle that does not meet those requirements, but has not been registered as a motorbike is an "illegal ebike" in normal usage.

For once, I wouldn't blame the Home Office here.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

To be fair to them the term "ebike" is used frequently in the general population as meaning anything with 2 wheels and an electric motor

which include legal EPAC/Pedalec devices AND the illegal ones
whether illegal due to a little tweak to disable the motor cutoff or add a throttle
or the types that are basically just like a 500cc motorbike

and they have to talk to the general public and use words they understand

the media and authorities need to start using terms like Pedalec and/or EPAC properly

but at least they are making it clear they are tackling illegal ebikes

although it does sort of imply that all bikes with a motor are illegal