vickster
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Even an illegal home modified one?
Electric scooters.
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Even an illegal home modified one?
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
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There's a bloke rides a top range escooter in Bristol. I've seen him zoom along the B2B Railway path overtaking guys on fast carbon fibre road bikes....going downhill. Its got a much bigger battery compartment, wheels and even full suspension. Quite why anyone needs to go that fast...even 15-20mph...on cycle paths is beyond me. And you do get those fools who ride very fast escooters along the road & brag about how fast they can go, putting it up on YT.
Not all drinkers become alcoholics but it doesn't mean its safe to consume.
The max escooter you can buy without a license and paperwork is 50cc. They are limited to 30mph. You might be able to squeeze an extra 10mph out of them if you deregulate them, although the range will then reduce.
Not everyone owns a Ferrari and drives like an idiot. You can't legislate based on outliers.
captain nemo1701
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Ironic that on this thread about escooters....the Google ad banner is for escooters (also a certain ex-commodities trader from the metals exchange whom I loathe). Blasted AI algorithms 
Ironic that on this thread about escooters....the Google ad banner is for escooters (also a certain ex-commodities trader from the metals exchange whom I loathe). Blasted AI algorithms
I've never seen an advertisement on the site.
ebikeerwidnes
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Nor me
Should I be disabling the adblocker to support the site???
never even occurred to me that there should be ads on it - but I suppose someone has to pay for stuff
I pay a small annual amount to help support the site. I think that's what removes the Ads
ebikeerwidnes
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Just disabled the adblocker for this site - an ad appeared at the top of the page after a refresh
I will leave it like that - gotta support good sites!
I will leave it like that - gotta support good sites!
classic33
Leg End Member
She lost her case last week. The picture of the pothole she was using, couldn't be proven to be the one that caused her to part company with the e-scooter.
https://www.driving.co.uk/news/ille...ury-claim-in-first-uk-court-case-of-its-type/
It's a bit weird anyway. If I recall correctly from my days working as a legal secretary we always focused on liability before damages. The figure is likely a preliminary one at best, to try to settle before Court. Obviously in this case there is no court, as liability has not been proven.
classic33
Leg End Member
Tell Judge Jan Luba KC, who presided over the case at Central London county court that there was no court involved.
ebikeerwidnes
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Shame it was rejected for that reason - doesn;t really answer any relevant questions
such as whether or not she could actually sue even though she was riding an illegal machine??
Does make you wonder how you prove it was that specific pothole though - I suppose you would need evidence - like an eye witness or photos of some debris from your bike/scooter from the time of the incident??
worth bearing in mind anyway
Sorry - it was late. I meant that there was no need to agree damages as liability was not proven in court.
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
I saw someone riding one of these things yesterday morning, in the quite frosty/icy start that we had
He'd been on/off pavements as it suited causing traffic to swerve, & of course his hand gestures suggested that it was the car-drivers who had it all wrong
I got alongside of him & one point & quite jovially suggested that he was the one who was doing it all wrong, he also had an ('IRA style') balaclava on
I got no sense from him at all, just abuse
Then as I stopped at a traffic-light, he sailed past (over the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal, at 'Stanley Ferry')
By the time the lights changed he was ahead, but ventured onto the pavement again, as Ferry Lane & Nellie Spindler Drive diverge
I took 'FL', as it has a short hill on my commute, but not the long-drag of 'NSD' (both meet at the same point)
I heard a scraping/sliding noise to my left, I looked round to see scooter-man on the ground partially underneath a 3-rail fence
He found out that pavements aren't gritted in icy weather
Happy?, I was still chuckling when I arrived at the Hospital
He'd been on/off pavements as it suited causing traffic to swerve, & of course his hand gestures suggested that it was the car-drivers who had it all wrong
I got alongside of him & one point & quite jovially suggested that he was the one who was doing it all wrong, he also had an ('IRA style') balaclava on
I got no sense from him at all, just abuse
Then as I stopped at a traffic-light, he sailed past (over the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal, at 'Stanley Ferry')
By the time the lights changed he was ahead, but ventured onto the pavement again, as Ferry Lane & Nellie Spindler Drive diverge
I took 'FL', as it has a short hill on my commute, but not the long-drag of 'NSD' (both meet at the same point)
I heard a scraping/sliding noise to my left, I looked round to see scooter-man on the ground partially underneath a 3-rail fence
He found out that pavements aren't gritted in icy weather
Happy?, I was still chuckling when I arrived at the Hospital
