Electric scooters.

[ebikeerwidnes]

Are escooters with seats electric mopeds/motorbikes?. There's a lunatic in Bristol who rides around at speed on one, faster than a 'normal' escooter...and yeah, the fool dresses all in black, black scooter, no lights. Saw him shooting down the Railway Path on it last night.

I have seen them - look like a good idea until you see someone on one and realise they look like a total twonk

maybe more controllable as you have the seat like on a bike

 

[Jenkins]

Are escooters with seats electric mopeds/motorbikes?. There's a lunatic in Bristol who rides around at speed on one, faster than a 'normal' escooter...and yeah, the fool dresses all in black, black scooter, no lights. Saw him shooting down the Railway Path on it last night.

Yes - with all the requirements for helmets, road registration , insurance, etc as for other motorbikes/mopeds.
Last year someone was using a monowheel that was capable of 20mph+ round here, but I've not seen it for a while - hopefully it's been seized by the authorities.

 

[icowden]

Aside from the taxing, the rest is included in the current trials.

And is pointless.

E-assist bikes don't require them. Ebikes on the other hand do.
If you say they don't, why are police seizing them for being illegal to use on the roads?

Because they are illegal. They do *not* however go out of their way to confiscate electric bikes, electric wheels, electric scooters etc because they aren't a problem.

What they will do is confiscate them from people who are being plonkers. So if someone is zooming through traffic on a deregulated electric scooter at 25mph they become a problem. If it's young will and his mate zooming along at 10mph on the pavement they might just get told off. I used to see a chap regularly travel on an electric wheel through central london, using the bike lanes etc. He never seemed to have a problem even when going past Police.

 

[postman]

I will find the news report later.But a 14 year old lad has killed an elderly lady by running into her whilst riding on the pavement.So first of all he is two years too young and riding on a pavement.I wonder what punishment he will get.

 

[Alex321]

I will find the news report later.But a 14 year old lad has killed an elderly lady by running into her whilst riding on the pavement.So first of all he is two years too young and riding on a pavement.I wonder what punishment he will get.

Already posted n this thread - post #317

 

[captain nemo1701]

Yes - with all the requirements for helmets, road registration , insurance, etc as for other motorbikes/mopeds.
Last year someone was using a monowheel that was capable of 20mph+ round here, but I've not seen it for a while - hopefully it's been seized by the authorities.

Yeah, seen the 'Look at me I'm dead cool' monowheel blokes here too. Hands in pockets, no indication, no shoulder checks, all over the place.

 

[PK99]

Yeah, seen the 'Look at me I'm dead cool' monowheel blokes here too. Hands in pockets, no indication, no shoulder checks, all over the place.

See one of those regularly in SW19 too.

OTOH, also saw a guy on a monowheel commuting on the Sea to Sky highway North Van to Squamish last Summer. Full leathers, helmet etc.

 

[captain nemo1701]

See one of those regularly in SW19 too.

OTOH, also saw a guy on a monowheel commuting on the Sea to Sky highway North Van to Squamish last Summer. Full leathers, helmet etc.

I've seen escooterists dressed like that on those powerful 50 mph private ones...bigger boards, front & rear suspension, double lights etc....look like they're about to take on traffic in a death race...then its up onto the pavement at the first car that comes along.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Saw a escooter person coming up the road just now
Riding perfectly OK - no wobbling and under control

now if he could just be on the correct side of the road.........

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

On the above point

I sometime wonder if when people are doing something that is regarded - at least to them - as perfectly normal and common, but is actually illegal in some minor respect (e.g. riding an escooter harms no-one in itself)
Then the door is opened to ignoring other laws and regulation that are similar to it

hence riding an escooter is illegal so riding it on the pavement is not a big step up
etc

could also apply to illegal drugs - 'a bit of weed' of often seen as kinda OK - so why not try [enter other drug here]
just me wondering

 

[icowden]

could also apply to illegal drugs - 'a bit of weed' of often seen as kinda OK - so why not try [enter other drug here]
just me wondering

So what are e-scooters a gateway to?

 

[Dogtrousers]

So what are e-scooters a gateway to?

I started off riding my tricycle round in circles in the back garden, one thing led to another and the next thing I knew I was driving at 100mph the wrong way down a motorway.

 

[captain nemo1701]

On the above point

I sometime wonder if when people are doing something that is regarded - at least to them - as perfectly normal and common, but is actually illegal in some minor respect (e.g. riding an escooter harms no-one in itself)
Then the door is opened to ignoring other laws and regulation that are similar to it

hence riding an escooter is illegal so riding it on the pavement is not a big step up
etc

could also apply to illegal drugs - 'a bit of weed' of often seen as kinda OK - so why not try [enter other drug here]
just me wondering

I smoke a bit of weed at home, never found myself crashing into a 72 year old lady on the pavement and knocking her into a hedge and then zooming away on my escooter...which is what happened to a friend of mine last year, she spent an night in an ambulance being checked out. I don't think you can equate a spliff with a 50 mph escooter thundering along a cycle path - seen that.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Saw a escooter person coming up the road just now
Riding perfectly OK - no wobbling and under control

now if he could just be on the correct side of the road.........

I know, had a daffy escooter rider come towards me...the wrong way in a painted cycle lane. Didn't think it's actually mono-directional and he must go the same way as other traffic.

 

[icowden]

I smoke a bit of weed at home, never found myself crashing into a 72 year old lady on the pavement and knocking her into a hedge and then zooming away on my escooter...which is what happened to a friend of mine last year, she spent an night in an ambulance being checked out. I don't think you can equate a spliff with a 50 mph escooter thundering along a cycle path - seen that.

Really? A 50mph e-scooter costs about £3000.

Similarly not all weed users become Heroin addicts. That doesn't mean that weed is not considered a gateway drug.