Cardiff - Dozens of illegal e-bikes seized in Crackdown
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Nope.
Does not look like an e-bike and is legal in any case.
No indication they are seizing legal eBikes.
There are auctions of these bikes. There's one today if your quick.I've no objection to the illegal ones being seized, but it's a shame there's no parts auctions for the legal parts off the bikes
Or being on the hunt for a particular pair of legit suspension forks I do...
Cheers for the heads up, just back so I missed it but nice to know there's other places to look.
I do hate unnecessary waste.
Yes I thought this was where John Pye was getting all these old used bikes .
Does not make much sense the Police Seize them John Pye and other Auctions then sell them , then the Police Seize them and on it goes like going round a mulberry bush .
Or maybe people buying them at public auction have large country estates to ride the illegal ones round on .
John Pye is Sold as seen no comebacks if you buy defective goods so buyer beware .
Yes, there are loads of guys on this forum that have large country estates to ride their illegal bikes on. I'm not too sure what they do on them because, for me, it would be a bit boring after the first couple of laps. We get about one of these guys every month, which is a bit weird because there are so many, but I never met one in real life, and they never invite us to ride there, which I think is very selfish.
It does look odd the complete bike being sold, common sense would see the offending parts removed and binned, and I'd thought there'd be a market for the bike parts that are left, probably not from a big auction house though.
Having come from a pedal cycle to a pedelec I'm more than happy with a 250w motor and 25.5 kmph, as however much the kilometres per hour display I can't change without dealer software and a £250 lead annoys me the daily rides are much easier.
Having come from a pedal cycle to a pedelec I'm more than happy with a 250w motor and 25.5 kmph, as however much the kilometres per hour display I can't change without dealer software and a £250 lead annoys me the daily rides are much easier.
I have a friend with a very large estate in Cumbria maybe I could ask her for an illegal bike meet and see has got the biggest motor
She married one of the family at Churchills old stately pile too !!!!
Twit - Hoo? Hoo?
I had an owl woo hooing in my garden last night.
It is the females who do the hoo, bit and the males do the twit.
I didn't know that until I came to live here.
I also regularly have a heron at the bottom of my garden hunting in the river. People say they have seen otters, but I never have.
It seems ridiculous that the police confiscate the illegal bikes and then sell them, but the policy is in fact in line with what happens when people drive uninsured cars and can't re-insure them promptly. They get taken and after a short period are sold I think.
I suppose that technically the confiscated bikes are just uninsured mopeds in law - unregistered too. There would probably not be anything to stop someone buying one, making sure it fits the type approval regulations for a speed pedelec, and getting it registered and insured - or of course, just swapping out the motor for a legal pedelec one.
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People on our posh village feedback group often post pictures of "otters" (the pictures are of rats !)
Ha ha ha - I had a similar experience just now. I was driving back from Lanercost Priory where my partner and I went for a coffee at the old priory and a wander around the grounds.
It is just along the road about 15 miles over the border in Cumbria, and we were coming back along the winding Gilsland road which runs alongside Hadrian's Wall. At one point we came across a young lad with a big rucksack trying to hitch a lift, so I stopped and picked him up. Turned out he was from Ukraine. He looked to be about 19. I think he had had enough and it was raining.
Anyway, as we drove along a grey thing jumped out and ran across the road. 'Ooh look. Squirrel,' says I.
Partner said, 'Rat!'
I don't know who was right. I think it was me and its tail was just wet, so it looked a bit skinnier than normal.
We only just got the grey squirrels up this far north recently and there are not all that many yet. We do have the red squirrels here - mostly in Kielder Forrest which is 250 Sq miles or 650 sq km. They say it is pretty much the biggest reserve of them left in England now.
Ah yes. Chicken Tarka. The same as Chicken Tikka - only a little
'otter.
'otter.
...............and using it for food delivery services.............
wonder if that has ever happened?
Just watched a Police Officer showing a BBC Wales Reporter one of the illegal Ebikes that could do 80 mph . The rear motor was the size of a dinner plate and he lifted the rear wheel up and used the throttle to show the speed on the bike speedo . I wonder what speed that would equate to when under load ?
Who’s who I would think never checked ,
When we go to Vietnam I am the foreigner more and more of us now over there too .
But if I invaded on a small boat they would chuck me in jail , and if people try and shoplift the whole street would chase the thief’s down the road and hold them for the police to arrest not film them .
It’s a Bit like when I see people nicking Lime Bikes they make a clicking noise as well as the alarm going off , no one BAT’S !! an eye to worried about being stabbed to get involved.
But then I suppose it’s a bit of a gateway theft once you have done a couple of Limes or a FOREST you can graduate up to someone’s Giant or go on a TREK .
I have always wondered what colour squirrels one might find up a beanstalk or how big the rats are up there .
We only have grey squirrel’s on Hampstead Heath , I call them foreigners when I explain to my foreign wife that they pushed out all the native squirrel’s .
When we go to Vietnam I am the foreigner more and more of us now over there too .
But if I invaded on a small boat they would chuck me in jail , and if people try and shoplift the whole street would chase the thief’s down the road and hold them for the police to arrest not film them .
It’s a Bit like when I see people nicking Lime Bikes they make a clicking noise as well as the alarm going off , no one BAT’S !! an eye to worried about being stabbed to get involved.
But then I suppose it’s a bit of a gateway theft once you have done a couple of Limes or a FOREST you can graduate up to someone’s Giant or go on a TREK .
I have always wondered what colour squirrels one might find up a beanstalk or how big the rats are up there .
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