> A neighbour commented on Facebook that the resident had 14 batteries stored in his flat.
Before we fuel panic about ebikes even more, let’s be clear that this sounds extremely unlikely to be a properly certified e-bike from a recognised brand, but more likely to be some homebrew electric motorcycle made using dodgy conversion kits.
E-bikes are mainly built in china. There are aggressive and brutal public campaigns about not taking e-bikes into the apartments and lifts.
Well that settles it, never will I have a scooter or power wheel on my bike, not that I wanted one anyway.
These things are far too dangerous.
Put them in your house if you want to but they should be made illegal to have in any flats. If my apartment burns down because of one of these the owner better go into hiding.
This is becoming a big thing in blocks. Happened in one my friend lives in recently. Guy upstairs who had been a nightmare for years was hoarding them. The flat burnt to a crisp. He was shipped out while repairs were made…came back and in the first week he and his equally nightmarish son were seen pulling e-bikes back into the flat.
Do we need to be banning these things outright in flats/Tower blocks? Clearly a fire hazard
every time i get on the lizzie line at night, towards the back, about 5 delivery guys with homemade e bikes get on too (nevermind the rudeness of them blocking the doors and seats with them..). E bikes are supposed to be banned from the underground and the elizabeth line, when will this start being enforced? When we have a fire like this start in a tunnel? I dread to think
Ask yourself: is there anyone near you or in your building who might be doing something like this?
Ebikes are great and I don’t support banning them from tower blocks, not that its even enforceable. Need to be looking more closely at imports and their suitability
What I’m trying to get at is that in a country that has and makes e-bikes has far stricter rules and regulations than we do with e-bikes and more public information about the safety of them.
A friends work colleague had one of those portable power units on charge and it did the same thing – it looked like a missile hit their flat.
These portable battery fires need regulation before it gets worse.
The London harbor guide has already warned people about leaving e-scooters or e-bikes in the hallways of their homes or block of accommodated flats. The batteries can become overheated which means that the best place for a bike is to chain it to a fence outside yo.
There are some neighbours in my building with e-bikes and we live very near to Bethnal Green in na similar size building so this feels so close to home.
Does anyone know of any campaigns that have flyers for safety that can be shared or printed? I don’t want to post a passive aggressive post in our what’s app group when i don’t even know if their bikes are secure etc.
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> A neighbour commented on Facebook that the resident had 14 batteries stored in his flat.
Before we fuel panic about ebikes even more, let’s be clear that this sounds extremely unlikely to be a properly certified e-bike from a recognised brand, but more likely to be some homebrew electric motorcycle made using dodgy conversion kits.
E-bikes are mainly built in china. There are aggressive and brutal public campaigns about not taking e-bikes into the apartments and lifts.
Well that settles it, never will I have a scooter or power wheel on my bike, not that I wanted one anyway.
These things are far too dangerous.
Put them in your house if you want to but they should be made illegal to have in any flats. If my apartment burns down because of one of these the owner better go into hiding.
This is becoming a big thing in blocks. Happened in one my friend lives in recently. Guy upstairs who had been a nightmare for years was hoarding them. The flat burnt to a crisp. He was shipped out while repairs were made…came back and in the first week he and his equally nightmarish son were seen pulling e-bikes back into the flat.
Do we need to be banning these things outright in flats/Tower blocks? Clearly a fire hazard
every time i get on the lizzie line at night, towards the back, about 5 delivery guys with homemade e bikes get on too (nevermind the rudeness of them blocking the doors and seats with them..). E bikes are supposed to be banned from the underground and the elizabeth line, when will this start being enforced? When we have a fire like this start in a tunnel? I dread to think
Ask yourself: is there anyone near you or in your building who might be doing something like this?
Ebikes are great and I don’t support banning them from tower blocks, not that its even enforceable. Need to be looking more closely at imports and their suitability
What I’m trying to get at is that in a country that has and makes e-bikes has far stricter rules and regulations than we do with e-bikes and more public information about the safety of them.
A friends work colleague had one of those portable power units on charge and it did the same thing – it looked like a missile hit their flat.
These portable battery fires need regulation before it gets worse.
The London harbor guide has already warned people about leaving e-scooters or e-bikes in the hallways of their homes or block of accommodated flats. The batteries can become overheated which means that the best place for a bike is to chain it to a fence outside yo.
There are some neighbours in my building with e-bikes and we live very near to Bethnal Green in na similar size building so this feels so close to home.
Does anyone know of any campaigns that have flyers for safety that can be shared or printed? I don’t want to post a passive aggressive post in our what’s app group when i don’t even know if their bikes are secure etc.
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