Electric scooters.

[Tenkaykev]

Spotted this notice when I was at the Railway station on Thursday. I've not noticed many Electric Scooters but I'm not a regular commuter so I'm not sure how prevalent they are.

 

[vickster]

Spotted this notice when I was at the Railway station on Thursday. I've not noticed many Electric Scooters but I'm not a regular commuter so I'm not sure how prevalent they are.

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Pretty much every rail company has banned them now, plus TfL

 

[classic33]

Spotted this notice when I was at the Railway station on Thursday. I've not noticed many Electric Scooters but I'm not a regular commuter so I'm not sure how prevalent they are.

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There's one or two rail companies looking at banning e-bikes(E-assist) because of the batteries.

 

[numbnuts]

I see in the Wail another one had died on the Blackpool promenade
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-promenade-Police-appeal-dashcam-footage.html

 

[vickster]

I see in the Wail another one had died on the Blackpool promenade
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-promenade-Police-appeal-dashcam-footage.html

What did he collide with?

 

[Drago]

What did he collide with?

The grim reaper's scythe.

 

[captain nemo1701]

When LI batteries go....they really go:



We recently had fire warden training. Apparently, one escooter on fire in Manchester was thrown into a canal....and burned underwater.

Saw those Paris riots about pensions, some poor French firefighters tried in vain to put out a bunch of ebikes on fire. Good luck, its extremely difficult.

 

[numbnuts]

When LI batteries go....they really go:



We recently had fire warden training. Apparently, one escooter on fire in Manchester was thrown into a canal....and burned underwater.

Saw those Paris riots about pensions, some poor French firefighters tried in vain to put out a bunch of ebikes on fire. Good luck, its extremely difficult.

I wonder how long until house insurance companys ban the use of charging e/bikes/e scooters inside your home.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I wonder how long until house insurance companys ban the use of charging e/bikes/e scooters inside your home.

Good point - hope they remember to include mobile phones and laptops as well

OK OK OK - never really heard of a mobile phone blowing up because the batteries are quite small
but in the old days laptops were well know to catch fire - nearly always with cheap replacement chargers
nowadays the manufacturers seem to have got round the problem but as the technology is the same the possibility is still there.

Basically - the right construction standards and the right charger and you should be OK
problem at the moment is that as the e-scooters are illegal anyway there are no real standards that the manufacturers stick to - any old carp will do as long as you can sell it when it is new!

 

[Dogtrousers]

never really heard of a mobile phone blowing up because the batteries are quite small

It was a while ago, Samsung had problems and had to recall some phones.
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2016/Samsung-Recalls-Galaxy-Note7-Smartphones

 

[Jenkins]

<snip>
Basically - the right construction standards and the right charger and you should be OK
problem at the moment is that as the e-scooters are illegal anyway there are no real standards that the manufacturers stick to - any old carp will do as long as you can sell it when it is new!

Very much this - the bike in the above video looks to be fitted with an aftermarket kit, probably purhased on the cheap direct from an anonymous manufacturer in China with all the quality control & product testing you'd expect

 

[captain nemo1701]

Had a wee near-miss incident with a private escooterist this morning.

Was overtaking a slower cyclist in front on the Railway Path, roadie coming from ahead but miles of room. I shoulder-checked, saw the escooter yards behind, so pulled around the guy in front. Didn't anticipate the speed he was doing since as I drew parallel to the other cyclist, Mr escooter was trying to overtake me!....with room rapidly running out. So braked hard, pulled back in and so did he. Potential collision avoided. He did apologise to me, but two observations:

1. He was going quite fast and attempted an overtake with not only space rapidly running out, but he almost was in the right-hand verge.
2. Private escooter, so yes, shouldn't have been out on it anyway.

I'm getting quite tired of these jumped up kids toys, hire or private. Voi scooters 'rules' are just laughable, see them broken every day.
Its a bit worrying when you're riding in a left-hand mono-directional painted cycle lane & someone on these things is coming towards you....that's happened a few times!.

 

[Drago]

The great British public proving they can't be trusted, as is all too often the case these days.

 

[vickster]

Its a bit worrying when you're riding in a left-hand mono-directional painted cycle lane & someone on these things is coming towards you....that's happened a few times!.

Just accidentally push them off with an out stretched signalling arm

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I wonder how long until house insurance companys ban the use of charging e/bikes/e scooters inside your home.

Or laptops or iPads which use same battery technology