June 25, 201114 yr Author Hi David I agree with you 100% it is not the electric bikes causing the problems it is people flouting the law and riding ilegal machines illegally! There is a place for more powerful and faster electric bikes but they must be considered and treated in law as mopeds or motorbikes and not EPACs. All the best David
June 25, 201114 yr I see suggestions that we should make these bikes noisier,that would be the last solution in China...try sleeping in a hotel room alongside a major road,chinese car drivers have a love affair with the horn please don't give them something to make more noise...a thousand chinese e-bikes with some form of electronic buzzer would be a horrible noise....remember the vuvuzela (hope I spelt that right) in the South African World Cup! Does anyone know the accidents and fatality numbers of conventional bikes and/or pedestrians?Most of our pedelecs are closer to conventional bikes than mopeds and that is right. The solution is for the chinese authorities is to educate the riders and slow these bikes down and maybe that is what the Shenzhen authorities have in mind,hence the temporary ban....less power and lighter weight would overcome a lot of the problems. I must agree there are often other motives in moving the populace away from e-bikes...in Guangzhou the brand new metro system was largely ignored in favour of e-bikes and hence the loss of revenue was a concern but I don't think that is the situation in Shenzhen. Dave Elderfield KudosCycles
June 25, 201114 yr Author No Dave, there is no Metro in shenzhen yet. Dick my opo in Shenzhen thinks it's a temporary measure so they can start enforcing the law when they are allowed back on the road. I remember about five years ago there were thousands of stinky, noisy mopeds on the roads of Shanghai. I was told to cure the problem the Gvt one day announced that annual duty on these machines was to go up to about £250.00. The day the new tax came into law police road blocks we set up all over the city with skips along side. Any moped found without the new tax plate was confiscated and thrown onto the skip! Thos may offend our western ideals of fair play but it was certainly very effective! All the best David
June 27, 201114 yr Author Regarding the electric bike riders of Shenzhen flouting the law, the current regs for electric bikes in Shenzhen are 20kph, 240W, throttle only, so the majority of electric bike riders are riding illegally. Dick our China manager believes this move was tactical and electric bikes will be seen again back on the road but any outside the law will be seized. All the best David
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