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by WrightsW5
19 Jan 2023, 6:06pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: parked cars in cycle paths
Replies: 21
Views: 2377

Re: parked cars in cycle paths

Maybe there should be a campaign for every onroad cycle lane to have double yellow lines by law.
by WrightsW5
16 Sep 2022, 10:45am
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Escooter trial to start
Replies: 351
Views: 37541

Re: Escooter trial to start

millimole wrote: 15 Sep 2022, 7:09pm
WrightsW5 wrote:I had a Honda SS50 in the 1970s, it looked visually like a motorbike, nothing like a bicycle, and people treated it like it was a motorbike. No way I could have got away with riding it on pavements constantly.
I have an electric 50cc equivalent e-moped.

Taxed (free), registration plate, insurance, and, yes, helmet. Restricted to 28mph.
I believe it might be a Class P vehicle in legal terms.
As I have a full motorcycle licence I don't need to display L plates.

It's both extremely convenient and extremely frustrating - quick enough for local trips but slow enough to cause frustration to drivers behind me, particularly if I venture onto a 40mph road.
It's neither one thing (bicycle) nor the other (motorcycle).
That's great, anyone that does it all legally. :)

Another thing the government are missing out on if they don't do something about the lawbreakers, all that money from number plates, MOT, insurance, licence, helmets, where money goes directly to them or income tax from retailers. They will get the money, but from innocent taxpayers who shouldn't be subsidising lawbreakers.
by WrightsW5
14 Sep 2022, 8:53pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Escooter trial to start
Replies: 351
Views: 37541

Re: Escooter trial to start

Bonefishblues wrote: 14 Sep 2022, 7:51pm
WrightsW5 wrote: 14 Sep 2022, 7:43pm I had a Honda SS50 in the 1970s, it looked visually like a motorbike, nothing like a bicycle, and people treated it like it was a motorbike. No way I could have got away with riding it on pavements constantly.
So you want motorbike trappings such as fairings, big wheels, full-length saddles and the like because overpowered e-cycles used on road are just like hiding a motor in a frame and putting an exhaust through a chainstay?

I'm puzzled by your proposition, as I'm also unconvinced that this is a 'burning platform' for the Legislature - because I simply haven't yet seen the data to support your assertion.
I didn't say that at all!!!!!!!!! I said some way of electric motorbikes that are breaking the law by being ridden on the pavements being visually seen as not a bicycle, however that might be done, or by strict punishmemt for breaking the law with them.
by WrightsW5
14 Sep 2022, 7:43pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Escooter trial to start
Replies: 351
Views: 37541

Re: Escooter trial to start

I had a Honda SS50 in the 1970s, it looked visually like a motorbike, nothing like a bicycle, and people treated it like it was a motorbike. No way I could have got away with riding it on pavements constantly.
by WrightsW5
14 Sep 2022, 12:29pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Escooter trial to start
Replies: 351
Views: 37541

Re: Escooter trial to start

Bonefishblues wrote: 14 Sep 2022, 9:10am
WrightsW5 wrote: 13 Sep 2022, 10:27pm It took me half a minute to find this, 500w and 750w versions, legally a motorbike, or at least moped,

https://www.zhsydz.com/48v-500w-750w-hi ... tric-bike/
So you'd regulate via Statute to ensure there were motorcycle fairings on that, or what exactly? I'm interested to understand your proposal.

Or maybe random testing might be better, or perhaps regulation such as that which has been applied to another seller, detailed on a thread here, whereby they have to recall all of their motorcycles - or over-power e-cycles, or mopeds - choose your term?
Anything to stop the lawbreakers, maybe a fixed £1000 fine and the illegal motorbike thrown into a car crusher, if caught, by, as you said, a random check, or something, as mentioned, to visually distinguise these motorbikes being ridden on the pavement. Retailers required to sell them registered with a number plate. Maybe a required type of sound emitting from the motor by law.

Suppose someone was manufacturing petrol engined 50cc motorbikes, less powerful than some illegal electric motorbikes, based on a mountain bike frame, with the chunky downtube as the petrol tank and the engine disguised as much as possible above bottom bracket area and most of the exaust pipe being through a chainstay, and people were riding these on the pavement, would society do nothing?
by WrightsW5
13 Sep 2022, 10:50pm
Forum: Helmets & helmet discussion
Topic: Helmet argument from Cyprus to Introduce Compulsory Helmets
Replies: 12
Views: 5313

Re: Helmet argument from Cyprus to Introduce Compulsory Helmets

How do they enforce it in all four zones?
The native Cypriot area
Turk occupation area
U.N. occupation area
British occupation area
by WrightsW5
13 Sep 2022, 10:37pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Escooter trial to start
Replies: 351
Views: 37541

Re: Escooter trial to start

hemo wrote: 13 Sep 2022, 8:55pm It is just not only escooters or ebikes on pathways, it is the illegal parking of a car also on pathways whether two or four wheels are on them. Parking on pathways means a driver has had to illegally drive on said pathway and should also receive an equall fine, £250 a time should be enough to discorage most then every time someone is caught for the third time it should double and so on.
With escooters and ebikes on pavements it seems that car drivers now think they also can do what they want on pavements, I see them driving longer distances on pavements before getting on the road, driving on pavements to go around a traffic jam on the road, parking on the pavement as blockingly as they feel like it.
by WrightsW5
13 Sep 2022, 10:27pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Escooter trial to start
Replies: 351
Views: 37541

Re: Escooter trial to start

It took me half a minute to find this, 500w and 750w versions, legally a motorbike, or at least moped,

https://www.zhsydz.com/48v-500w-750w-hi ... tric-bike/
by WrightsW5
13 Sep 2022, 6:40pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Escooter trial to start
Replies: 351
Views: 37541

Re: Escooter trial to start

On pavements, I think the law should differenciate between a pedal cycle and an electric motorscooter where the person can move at constant high speed with no effort. Worse are (what seem to be?) them electric alleged bicycles that are like massive mountain bikes, with massive motors well over 250w, motorbikes disguised as bicycles that should have number plates, ved, mot, licence, helmets, being ridden on pavements. There ought to be a law about their visual construction, so an electric motorbike actually looks like a motorbike.
by WrightsW5
13 Sep 2022, 2:22am
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Escooter trial to start
Replies: 351
Views: 37541

Re: Escooter trial to start

For escooters in general the deaths are way too many https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8& ... ooter#ip=1
by WrightsW5
28 Aug 2022, 4:34pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Escooter trial to start
Replies: 351
Views: 37541

Re: Is anyone trying to stop cycle lanes from becoming motorised vehicle lanes (escooters)?

I know the hire ones can be set to reduce speed in relevant locations or cut the power, whether the rider likes it or not.
It would be good if private ones had sensors that would make them only function on road tarmac (not saying that would be possible) most importantly not function where I see 99% of them, on pedestrian pavements. I work in a shop, so I have many hours to see their behaviour on the pavement.
Should be reduced power if they are going to be given the cyles lanes.
by WrightsW5
27 Aug 2022, 5:02pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Escooter trial to start
Replies: 351
Views: 37541

Re: Is anyone trying to stop cycle lanes from becoming motorised vehicle lanes (escooters)?

Thanks for putting that link up.
Terrible prospect, light vehicles with electrical engines twice the power of heavier ebikes. It seems like the government want to move people away from ebikes, a real alternative to cars, because of all the money they get from car drivers. I have heard that some of these private escooters do about 60mph, and 15mph constantly with no effort is very dangerous on pavements, and, at minimum, added danger on cycle lanes, where they will be always overtaking cyclists in a lane that is 1 bicycle width wide on roads and not much wider on pavement cycle lanes.
by WrightsW5
27 Aug 2022, 4:01pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Escooter trial to start
Replies: 351
Views: 37541

Re: Is anyone trying to stop cycle lanes from becoming motorised vehicle lanes (escooters)?

Yes, nothing about the protection of cycling areas and protection of cyclists' safety though. The government would only need to issue a few words to get that information out, but nothing.
by WrightsW5
27 Aug 2022, 2:23pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Escooter trial to start
Replies: 351
Views: 37541

Is anyone trying to stop cycle lanes from becoming motorised vehicle lanes (escooters)?

I read this from Halfords:

"The UK government are running trials of rental operations through 2020-2022, in selected major cities. These pilot programs could potentially pave the way to a version of the UK in which e-scooters are generally legal for use on roads and cycle lanes,"

I have very few encounters of them passing me from behind a very high speed and it is worrying, the reason why it hasn't been more is because the big danger currently is that they are 99% on the pavements, why I have been walking and had many many near misses, being passed at high speed from behind, I know that if I had decided to go into a shop and buy something at that moment they would have gone straight into me. I think it will mean the end cycle lanes if the government tells motorised vehicle drivers to use them.
by WrightsW5
25 May 2021, 1:36am
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Selle Italia Mitica Leather Saddle
Replies: 38
Views: 7387

Re: Selle Italia Mitica Leather Saddle

I have never ridden a Mitica but i've got a Storica and it's great.