Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Not a trend that I've noticed in London. Bikes with fat tyres and no requirement to pedal are fairly commonplace
E Scooter on Trains
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Not a trend that I've noticed in London. Bikes with fat tyres and no requirement to pedal are fairly commonplace
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
And that's why the current compliance "kitemark" plates/stickers are rubbish. It needs to be something that can be verified as authenticated, current and valid. We know this. We've known this for ages. Commercial companies selling expensive things have been doing verifiable compliance labels for decades and the fakes basically rely on victims not verifying them carefully enough (or at all). Heck, we can verify a bank card in seconds now. Yet legislators still seem to believe in the power of magic "kitemark" symbols printed onto things, rather than realtime validation.
China Export!
on my commute through SE London, dodgy ebikes outnumber non ebikes and the number is growing.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Now that's just a case of someone too big to take to court actively creating a new kitemark that's confusingly similar to an existing one. I love how all the guides wibble on about checking the spacing of the C and the E to distinguish the Conformity European trademark from the China Export symbol when there's basically nothing stopping the China Export users "misprinting" theirs with more spacing and dropping all pretence that it's not an attempt at passing off. What the European authorities should be doing is adding barcodes or code numbers to the marking that buyers can look up somewhere on europa.eu and check it's what they think it is.
Of course, the UKCA symbol has the same flaw and is being actively abused by Chinese makers, but my theory on the reasons for that will get us booted to NACA because it's really not cycling politics!
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
I wonder, would it be OK if you took the battery out? It wouldn't be an e-bike any more.
And if you then put the battery in a rucksack? Preferably not with a load of paper clips and nails to short it.
And if you then put the battery in a rucksack? Preferably not with a load of paper clips and nails to short it.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
I have wondered that when I have seen things banning ebikes
