Cycling UK Forum

Audax67 wrote:Don't like the idea. When I lived in Germany I became very conscious of what they called the "anzeigementalität", i.e. a state of mind that takes delight in denouncing petty wrongdoers. E.g. chum turned his ankle on a loose paving and stumbled a bit while walking to his car, police turned up at his flat half an hour later with a breath test because some good citizen had noted his number plate and called the police because he might just have been drunk.

Bleh.

Happens here in the UK all the time. You Tube is full of amateur policemen and sadly a lot of them are cyclists who trawl around cities looking for offenders to film and report.

eBikes are seen by the general public as very "green" and a way of getting older people out and about, the media love them at the moment.

Of course there is some abuse but it's sufficiently low key that the media, police and council jobsworths have not picked up on it.
In the near future there will be a fatality of some sort involving an ebike, the media, politicians and FB forums will go hysterical resulting in knee jerk legislation to the detriment of all of us.

My money is on the inevitability of cycles being licensed and insured.