
https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/co ... ng-e-bikes
PDQ Mobile wrote:Well no bias in that post then!
The article states that
"Yesterday the Consumer Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (IMCO Committee) voted in favour of the exclusion of e-bikes (up to 25km/h assistance and 250W) from the scope of the new Motor Insurance Directive: a great result, which comes after several intense months of advocacy between ECF, CIE and CONEBI with the members of IMCO Committee."
So it was a democratic decision with representation from cycling groups that was listened to?
For what it's worth I always thought 3 party insurance for pedal cycles was no bad thing.
Put a motor on them and make them heavier and there is some sense in having another look.IMHO.
I know many don't agree.
Cunobelin wrote:As I understand it the whole premise and initial claim of this thread is wrong....
The original post makes it sound like the whole plan was to introduce insurance for E-Bikes, which was not the case at all
It was discussing the insurance of motor vehicles, and on the advice of various groups excepted E-Bikes from the need for insurance.
The claim that "So the 'glorious' EU has being defeated in their sick attempt to enforce mandatory motor insurance for all e-bike users! " is ridiculous at best
ON the grounds of the original post cyclists were not the only ones hounded and victimised.......One could also claim that "So the 'glorious' EU has being defeated in their sick attempt to enforce mandatory motor insurance for all electric ride-on lawnmower users!
These are also excluded
..... and it gets far worse!
There are multiple other groups that were the victims of this oppressive decision to look logically at insurance, fairground rides, mobility scooters, agricultural vehicles, museum vehicles, children’s toys, golf buggies, were all excluded in exactly the same callous way
The "problem" was that no matter how you define a "motorised vehicle" there will be vehicles on the edge of that definition that are included by default rather than any intention to do so. This was resolved by excluding those vehicles. E-Bikes being but one of the groups
The utility cyclist wrote:What bias? The EU 'road safety' commission have continually pushed for cycle helmets to be mandatory, [...]
The utility cyclist wrote:Cunobelin wrote:As I understand it the whole premise and initial claim of this thread is wrong....
The original post makes it sound like the whole plan was to introduce insurance for E-Bikes, which was not the case at all
It was discussing the insurance of motor vehicles, and on the advice of various groups excepted E-Bikes from the need for insurance.
The claim that "So the 'glorious' EU has being defeated in their sick attempt to enforce mandatory motor insurance for all e-bike users! " is ridiculous at best
ON the grounds of the original post cyclists were not the only ones hounded and victimised.......One could also claim that "So the 'glorious' EU has being defeated in their sick attempt to enforce mandatory motor insurance for all electric ride-on lawnmower users!
These are also excluded
..... and it gets far worse!
There are multiple other groups that were the victims of this oppressive decision to look logically at insurance, fairground rides, mobility scooters, agricultural vehicles, museum vehicles, children’s toys, golf buggies, were all excluded in exactly the same callous way
The "problem" was that no matter how you define a "motorised vehicle" there will be vehicles on the edge of that definition that are included by default rather than any intention to do so. This was resolved by excluding those vehicles. E-Bikes being but one of the groups
I don't care about fairground rides, this is a cycling forum, their decision making has ignored world data time and again in their push for helmets, and again they've not looked at risk when it comes to e-bike users, if they had then there would not have been the proposal in the first place.
I bet having motor insurance for all e-bike users would have gone down a storm across the Eu and beyond where it not for active groups like ECF fighting the battle.