More Seizures

[saneagle]

The girl serving behind the counter in our local Co-op was struggling to walk today. She said that she had fallen off her electric scooter. She admitted that she knew she wasn't supposed to use it, and she said that she was never going to use it again.

 

[Benjahmin]

Just been to my daughters place in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
Saw quite a few obviously illegal fat bikes, and others ( but no scooters !), being ridden round town. Not only with no pedalling but through pedestrian areas even the wrong way up one way streets. None seemed to be delivery riders.
This wild west I can do anything I like/is convenient to me is extremely self centred and will land us all in regulatory hell.

 

[lenny]

Breightmet, Bolton: Police seize e-bike after anti-social behaviour

Police seize e-bike following anti-social behaviour reports in Breightmet

Police seized a bike in Bolton last night after reports came in of anti-social behaviour.

www.theboltonnews.co.uk

 

[saneagle]

I went to Aldi in the town centre today. On the way down, I got passed by a guy not pedalling on a bike with a pancake motor in the back. When I came out of Aldi, there was a Sur-Ron clone in the rack next to my bike. On the way back, I saw a fairly young girl on one of those powerful scooters with 10" wheels, riding slowly next to her pedestrian friend. I saw one other bike during the whole journey, which was a normal non-electric bike. That makes 50% of the two-wheeled vehicles around that journey illegal, 66% of the electric ones illegal, and 10% of the electric ones that weren't mine illegal.

 

[esuark]

wild west
I see more and more non pedaling e bikes usually the fat tyre creations and all sorts riding them young and old. Scooters as well.
I sometimes go across town to pick up my granddaughters from school and there is a boy comes out of there with a non pedaling "dinner plate special". Sometimes giving a mate a lift.
On a couple of occasions I`v seen a what looks like a well off boy with Sur-Ron type bike with girlfriend on the back hanging around zooming up and down the road no helmets and no attempt to hide identities. Probably playing truant and waiting for mates to finish school.
I`d add this is a good area smart new houses and a new sought after school.
I wrote a bit last Saturday on this thread about some hooded youths on a motorcycle who the police totally ignored.

Sign of the times.......