Increase in seizures of illegal ebikes

[ebikeerwidnes]

What was the telling of bit for then?

Obeying the regulations and making sure the "telling off" could be recorded as per said regulations??

 

[Drago]

What was the telling of bit for then?

The inspector was an awfully nice fellow, ex Sandhurst, asked if I wouldn't mind awfully not calling them the No active Team, at least to their faces, as it was making them jolly batey.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Apparently, some of the people riding those bikes are not all that bright

https://www.runcornandwidnesworld.c...ider-identified-removing-balaclava-eat-pasty/

In Widnes Town Centre - a place which is very obviously covered by a fair number of CCTV cameras!!

 

[annedonnelly]

Apparently, some of the people riding those bikes are not all that bright

https://www.runcornandwidnesworld.c...ider-identified-removing-balaclava-eat-pasty/

In Widnes Town Centre - a place which is very obviously covered by a fair number of CCTV cameras!!

And another dropped his jacket containing personal items - maybe his mum had stitched a name tag in it for him

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just found this

https://www.runcornandwidnesworld.c...asks-e-bike-back-youth-made-obscene-gestures/


Love the bit where a parent rang the Police and asked for the bike back

Optimism is alive and well in Widnes!!!

 

[classic33]

I like this bit from the article linked above.
“If you decide to spend thousands of pounds on an illegal bike, or adapt a bike to overcome legal restrictions, please do not expect sympathy when the bike is seized and crushed."

 

[Drago]

The should knock the parents off for use, cause or permit.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

The should knock the parents off for use, cause or permit.

Scary thing about stuff like that happening close to me is that it always makes me wonder it I taught them

articles like that do make me think it is more than possible!!!

 

[mjr]

I like this bit from the article linked above.
“If you decide to spend thousands of pounds on an illegal bike, or adapt a bike to overcome legal restrictions, please do not expect sympathy when the bike is seized and crushed."

If e-bike batteries are so volatile that it justifies banning them from trains, why haven't any crushed e-bikes burnt down a police station yet?

 

[Drago]

Because they dont crush them in police stations?

 

[Mike_P]

And I have thought the battery would be removed before its crushed and sent for recycling.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

And I have thought the battery would be removed before its crushed and sent for recycling.

2 people got in before me

but also - even the dodgy Chinese made cheap batteries held on by Gaffer Tape only burst into flames 0.1% of the time

so the chances of it happening before they can get it off and sent to a recycler are quite remote
but put it in an environment where the chances of an "event" are higher - i.e. it being used or charged - and keep it there for many hours a day for a year and the chances of an event are much higher

 

[TC99]

How to get younger people to hate you.

 

[Drago]

How to get younger people to hate you.

Be over the age of 30 and they'll do that automatically.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

How to get younger people to hate you.

I spent a year getting a PGCE so I am an expert at that!