Increase in seizures of illegal ebikes

[fossyant]

Channel 5 now, 14th October 7pm. The Invasion of e-bikes - The Scourge of our streets ! Whoooo scary.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Channel 5 now, 14th October 7pm. The Invasion of e-bikes - The Scourge of our streets ! Whoooo scary.

Just watched it

nothing unexpected - few details of how teh "bike team" work in terms of testing the ebikes they find
and when they stopped one clearly dodgy "ebike" the bloke on it got away with it because he managed to turn the motor off before they managed to test it

worrying that it turns out that the batteries (etc) are self declared as compliant to safety regs and that's it
which explains some of the one I have seen

shows how important it is to only use a bike by a decent brand!!

impressive how the Lime bikes that they find in the canal still work OK after 2 days under water
so it is clearly waterproof!!

 

[Mike_P]

North Yorkshire Police joined the list of police forces on Monday who cannot get the basics right by announcing they had taken an ebike off the streets. The word illegal missing along with preferably electric motorcycle noticeably absent.

 

[fossyant]

I actually thought the show was quite balanced after the blimmin cabbie was off the screen.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I actually thought the show was quite balanced after the blimmin cabbie was off the screen.

Yes - it was quite good

A lot of people would have learned something from it
and it was not sensationalist - which was a possibility

but quite well done for a one programme coverage of all the basics

 

[fossyant]

Yes - it was quite good

A lot of people would have learned something from it
and it was not sensationalist - which was a possibility

but quite well done for a one programme coverage of all the basics

I was impressed. It did go over how dangerous these dodgy battery bikes were. So, good on C5. That first few minutes I thought it was a rant against any bike from a cabbie.

Overall, very good !

 

[fossyant]

The only thing I might have added was another bike on the 'track' from a race cyclist and asking them to chase down the dodgy e-bike. I recon they would do it for a lap only ! Good to see a regular road cyclist beat the legal 'e-bike' on the track.