Just change the word scooter for bicycle! When will they ban them?
The police were on the news the other day about the use of illegal scooters, get caught & it’s a minimum of 6 points & up to £1300 fine if all the offences are added up. The copper said when there was the odd one, they tended to get ignored, but they were now a real problem.Had a little tosser the other day, on an electric scooter, one hand on the handle bars, other hand talking on the phone, no helmet, no insurance and bombing down a country lane. Shouted at ME to get over!
I'd pull the trigger and not look back.
My son thinks my reaction a bit OTT...
i actually agree with ebike bans or be insured and stay on the road with themAt least the law is clear on riding a bicycle on a pavement and on the road.
Suggesting banning bicycles is just a ridiculous suggestion; as a cyclist myself I'm probably just as irate as you are about cyclists that ride or behave inappropriately as it makes people make statements like that!
Gloucester has them, drove through Monday & scooters were left lying across the pavement.Birmingham are trialling legally hired scooters and we quite often see up to half a dozen abandoned near QE hospital, I like the technique the chap uses to recover them, rides one with 2 more across the platform in front of him.
i actually agree with ebike bans or be insured and stay on the road with them
look if you ban scooters ban the the ebicycles as wellBan them from where - everywhere? Why ban something that is here to stay? That's just a knee-jerk reaction and makes no sense.
They shouldn't be anywhere BUT the road or properly off-road and ridden responsibly as one would hope; insuring them is something I don't actually disagree with... with the sheer weight of them and their enhanced speed I'd rather a e-bike that hit me (as a driver and assuming I was not at fault) was insured by its owner.
Electric scooters are, largely and from what I can gather, ridden by youngsters that have little or no road sense; they are immensely affordable compared to an electric bicycle - and as yet the law (as far as I know) hasn't caught up with them yet.
look if you ban scooters ban the the ebicycles as well
cant have one rule for one and one rule for the other both are powered by the e motor one can move alot faster than the other
if you dont like it then dont buy an e bike its either pedal power or pay insurance instead of using the loop hole
that law also should include councils as well also no loophole for them to use them
Yeah, lets just ban everything...
Yes, you can have one rule for one and one for another; bicycles (whether electrically assisted or not) are largely covered by existing law - electric scooters are not (as far as I know) as the law hasn't caught up with them yet. Insurance for e-bikes may well be a good thing.
Things need controlling and legislating, not banning.