Amsterdam police checking if an e-bike has had its speed limiter removed – London could do with one of these.

by mralistair

15 comments

  1. I’d add that I think ebikes are great.. but the ones that are basically motorbikes are a bit of a menace. (and often ridden the most menacingly.)

    And i still don’t understand awhy so few deliveroo riders have lights.. I mean they are £5 from decathlon and you can charge then from your bike.

  2. It doesn’t have to be that complicated. If it has a throttle or a squirt button then it’s illegal. You can tell that just by looking at it.

    The issue we have in London is that there are hardly any police left in the job. The government can bring in all the laws they want but if there’s no police to enforce them then what’s the bloody point?

  3. I’d settle for them starting with the ones with a throttle, not pedal assist. They’re easy to spot, half of them don’t even seem to have a chain

  4. The City of London Police have such a measuring device. And regularly confiscate the bikes of those who have modified them or bought illegal ones.

    Unfortunately the Met don’t have the officers to deal with it.

  5. It’s a known problem, but as we all know, our government and police won’t do anything

  8. Can’t afford it! When you have BAU’s who can’t investigate burglaries because they can’t afford the USB to be able to pull the data from CCTV.

    The police’s budget has been obliterated, they just don’t have the money.

  9. Interesting factoid for everyone – Amsterdam has 320 miles of cycle lanes, London has 223 miles.

    Amsterdam has a population of 1.5 million, London has around 9 million. So it seems that Holland takes cycling a lot more seriously than the UK does (including enforcing rules about what counts as an ebike).

  10. This weekend, I was walking my dogs on pedestrian only path on Tooting Common, and a guy riding one of these fat tyre E-Bikes raced right up behind us, slamming on the brakes at the last minute. My thoughts are he did it to get a reaction or to get us to move off of the pedestrian path. The guy proceeded to go around pull the same stunt again to another person walking towards us on the path.

    I’ve got no fight with e-bikes, but these types of bikes are a different league and seem to be ridden by (checks notes) knobs

  11. I see these bikes and scooters as the solution not the problem

  12. Hands-on enforcement of cycling rules/laws is one of the many things Dutch cities get right – and one of the main things London gets wrong. Infrastructure plays a massive role but if nobody is around to police its use, it remains unfit for purpose.

  13. All of these ridiculous e-bikes should be outlawed or required to have a license plate. So sick of these anti-social losers

  14. Yesterday evening I went for dinner with my parents. I left the restaurant with my mum and went to cross the road. Man was green so we crossed, this kid on an ebike came soaring down the road and almost hit us as he went through a red light. He then proceeded to glare at me like it was my fault 🙃

  15. Wish the police would start fining Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats as well as the riders. Then we would see some change.

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