Buildings, employers, councils, orgs, Gov depts that have banned e-bikes on site

[mark sutton]

I have been tracking this trend for a while and the snowball doesn't seem to be stopping. There is a troubling trend, insurance-driven, that is seeing major employers banning e-bikes from site. I won't go into how ill-informed and counterproductive it all is, I'm sure you all have thoughts on that. I would ask that if anyone has any further major employment group names that have barred e-bikes from site please do let me know in the comments.

https://www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/electric-bike-ban-trend-spreads-to-uks-largest-buildings-and-real-estate-groups

 

[guerney]

Which Councils? Also, your article doesn't say if they're being banned from Council offices or rental properties, or both. Ebikes are cheap transport, I expect there are oodles of them lurking in Council and social housing association owned dwellings, sometimes occupied by the socioeconomically disadvantaged.

When I noticed a "NO EBIKES OR ESCOOTERS ALLOWED!" notice, while buying a cordless drill from my local Cash Converters for £8 (two batteries with easy to source 1200mAh Ni-Cd cells [no BMS visible thus far], which look repairable - safer to attempt welding when the time comes, but they currently hold a good charge, after I cleaned the battery contacts with isopropyl, and ground off charge/discharge impeding corrosion, using a puny and tiny and ancient pretend Dremelesque tool [bequeathed to me recently by a friend who sadly died of heart failure. It's an epidemic], and applied a smidge of dielectric grease to protect the exposed copper), I asked if it was because they're always bursting into flames. "No, it's because one scratched a telly", she said.