Reporting scrotes on illegal ebikes

[wafter]

I strongly disagree here: they are mopeds/small motorbikes that are mostly using cycling infrastructures.
This is not legal, nor right or safe for us cyclists.
Not safe, because they ride inpredictably at high speeds.
On the other thread we would like to see more kids cycling to school on safe infrastructures, yeah, along with your breakfast just eat bloke zooming at 30mph.
Of course, nobody complains, it's only cyclists that are inconvenienced, the population must get their delivery.

I suspect there's an amount of variation depending on where you are....

Around here the delivery riders are mostly on illegally converted / equally illegal Ali Express specials , pay sod all attention to the law and ride with excess speed (within limits; maybe 25-30mph at worst). Their attitude however seems to be very much one of necessity and despite constantly drawing attention to themselves through their abysmal riding they seem to keep their heads down and get on with it. Of those I've verbally abused I've never had one escalate the confrontation.

The kids on the other hand aren't out to scrape together enough to pay for another month in a 20 bed HMO. They're out for the sake of it; on proper electric motorbikes. They're travelling at significantly higher speeds (I reckon the last lot I saw were doing 40-50mph in a 30 zone); fuelled by each others bravado and stupidity. Their riding is intentionally reckless and provocative; raising the liklihood of an accident or violence if there's an alteration.

Of course I'd love to see them all off the road...

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

It is not identifying then that is the problem

it is catching them

or identifying them to detain them later

If they are challenged then they just shoot off
and an electric bike can go through narrow gaps and up paths that cop cars cannot go

not sure how they get round that

 

[classic33]

It is not identifying then that is the problem

it is catching them

or identifying them to detain them later

If they are challenged then they just shoot off
and an electric bike can go through narrow gaps and up paths that cop cars cannot go

not sure how they get round that

Briggate in Leeds, where a few have been seized, they could get them as they sit around waiting on the orders coming in. Similar areas in most city/town centres, where they wait with their motorbikes nearby.

One big problem is how different areas of the same police force deal with the same issue. Local town centre, they don't bother, saying that the bikes are simply too fast to catch. Whilst in Leeds city centre they are pulling them aside where the congregate, waiting. Catching them going uphill, without pedalling. Through No Entry signs and other simple things.

 

[wafter]

It is not identifying then that is the problem

it is catching them

or identifying them to detain them later

If they are challenged then they just shoot off
and an electric bike can go through narrow gaps and up paths that cop cars cannot go

not sure how they get round that

Choppers and drones. If the bloke on the local FB group is to be believed (yeah, I know) they've had the chopper out at least once recently for this reason.