Another Electric Motorbike being passed off as an e-bike

[icowden]

I do wish the BBC would report things properly.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-68717764

Tributes to 'loveable' grandad killed in Burnley e-bike crash​

There was no e-bike crash. This was a collision with an electric "Sur-ron" motorbike and the 18 year old riding it needs to be appropriately charged.
Hopefully he will be.

Oh - and lets find a rule that says the term "e-bike" is reserved for electric bicycles.

 

[bonzobanana]

The news report would have been much more accurate if said killed by an illegally ridden motorcycle. Also why have their got the rider but not the sur-run e-motorcycle? How on earth can the rider be released in this situation. I don't get what is going on here, he killed someone while riding illegally.

 

[TC99]

I do wish the BBC would report things properly.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-68717764

There was no e-bike crash. This was a collision with an electric "Sur-ron" motorbike and the 18 year old riding it needs to be appropriately charged.
Hopefully he will be.

Oh - and lets find a rule that says the term "e-bike" is reserved for electric bicycles.

What the difference between an e bike and a electric motorbike? is it power output?

 

[icowden]

What the difference between an e bike and a electric motorbike? is it power output?

To me, an e-bike is an electric bicycle. You pedal it and the speed is capped at 15mph. An electric motorbike like the one in this article can do 60mph. It's a motorbike.

 

[StuAff]

If it needs a licence, it's a motorbike.

 

[Bristolian]

If it needs a licence, it's a motorbike.

If it's a motorbike, the rider needs a license (and insurance)

 

[nellietheelephant]

To me, an e-bike is an electric bicycle. You pedal it and the speed is capped at 15mph. An electric motorbike like the one in this article can do 60mph. It's a motorbike.

We have electric motor bikes, electric mopeds, electric scooters, all of which are motor vehicles.

 

[wiggydiggy]

They've changed the headline now to 'electric motorbike'.

 

[Ajax Bay]

They've changed the headline now to 'electric motorbike'.

Except the BBC (ffs) report (first line): "a man in his 80s . . died after he was knocked down by an electric motorbike."

Errr no. He was knocked down by a man riding an electric motorbike. We really need to get the medja to make reports clear in incidents (in this case tragically) fatal or otherwise, that it's a human injuring or killing another human, without ascribing blame (but referencing the hierarchy of vulnerability).
The risk of confiscation and crushing might deter humans from riding bikes which properly need registration etc (and helmets) on the public roads/thoroughfares. Having said that, provided they don't go above 25kph, the difference in hazard (cf 'normal cycle' with a Drago sized lad pedalling) to both the rider and others is pretty small.