The thing is these are electric motorbikes and they are already required by law to have registration plates and insurance (and a proper crash hlemet).Psamathe wrote: ↑2 Apr 2024, 2:09pm Spent the morning in Norwich and ALL the bikes I saw underway were not being pedalled. quite a few the food delivery people.
My worry is that it gives those arguing for bike registration (plates) and compulsory insurance a bit of a case. Where there are what appear to be bikes but being obviously powered by motors then makes it a lot harder to counter the madness coming from the likes of Lord Winston and others in Westminster. We might all get tarred with the same brush.
"These things that must have registration plates and insurance and don't mean that these things which don't need them should have them!" doesn't make much sense as a driver for legislation, and while I can see various of the velophobe constituency thinking it sounds completely sensible you'll need more than that to get it in to the legislature.
Pete.