Damian-Moderator said:
Any fool can make a bike be it electric power, pedal power or petrol power go 30Mph. It's stopping that is the hard bit. There used to be regular "time trials" by a cycle club held on the A49 Leominster by pass, which were both illegal and dangerous as these so called "proffessional cyclist's" were indeed doing well over 30Mph, and furthermore, riding sometimes 4 a breast stopping cars and lorries from proceeding. I brought this up with our local police inspector and they had a sunday morning prosecuting dangerous riders. Also the club was done for holding an illegal cycle race. You see racing on the highway is illegal, unless you have applied for and got permission to close the road to the public for the race. Now the club calls their sunday activity an event, but the police have rounded up on that terminology too.
Thanks for the info links sprocket, I can see that the regs have now been brought up to date.
Although I am classed as disabled my self now, I still hold the view that any mechanically propelled vehicle (that is what an electric bike is) should be registered and the riders should hold some form of proficiency certificate to say they have been trained.
We have dozens of electric buggies riding the pavements of our town and some of them are as wide as a double push chair, and we all know how cumbersome those are in confined space. I do have to say that most drivers are good but we have one woman who rides full throttle beeping her horn and running into pedestrians. The buggie is plastered with insultive stickers and referral to "mad ***** driving". We also have a chap who always has a 4 pack of larger in the front basket and one on the go in hand while a radio is blasting away and he also drives full tilt.
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