Has this come up as a serious proposal somewhere?
Thanks
Jonathan
I can understand your concern, but the fact that bicycles are powered by muscle in the same way that pedestrians and horse riders are should be seen as the key differential.arnsider wrote: ↑15 Jan 2022, 9:13am This issue may have been touched on in other posts as an incidental, but I believe it is an essential one that needs facing head-on.
Under our noses, E scooter legalities have become very controversial and have pretty onerous implications for us cyclists.
To ride an E Scooter legally here on public roads, you need to have a provisional driving license.
You also need to have hired the vehicle from a Bona Fide outfit that includes a form of third party insurance in its charges.
The furore from the usual anti-cycling culprits has been deflected towards scooters because of the huge publicity Towns opting for the schemes have generated.
It is only a matter of time before an accommodation has to be reached.
I do not doubt in my mind that this will mean compulsory third party insurance for cyclists and possibly some form of competence test...
....The most “dangerous” trend presently comes from the anomalous situation over the banning the use of private scooters from the roads. This is obviously a sore point and private use will inevitably be sanctioned, but with compulsory insurance. It will only be a matter of time and we will all have to stump up.
It's a point well made.thirdcrank wrote: ↑16 Jan 2022, 12:57pm The point I'm trying to get across is that an escooter which isn't "street legal" is self-evident. It will take some knowledge of the law and technical expertise to detect eg an ebike which has been modified so that it is no longer compliant.
So both illegal and illegally modified I guess.
Why? Unless it was someone else's (such as a hire scheme one), probably no law was broken to modify it. It is, of course, currently illegal on roads, but that is true even unmodified.
I was under the impression that the e-scooters being imported were also subject to speed restriction, hence my 'double-barrelled' comments. Is that not the case?mjr wrote: ↑17 Jan 2022, 10:39amWhy? Unless it was someone else's (such as a hire scheme one), probably no law was broken to modify it. It is, of course, currently illegal on roads, but that is true even unmodified.