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Or maybe he just said he wasn't using it and the judge believed him.

It's targeted action against specific retailers - they may well only be selling complete machines, rather than conversion kits. Of course that wouldn't prevent them coming back later and using further orders against those selling kits.

The judge's comments say there was no phone use... I don't know how the process works for checking if there was phone use after a collision. Maybe he has two and the police only checked one?

@andystow The whole initiative is aimed at online retailers though, isn't it, so no harder to police those selling illegal conversion kits than those selling complete bikes, one would have thought.

@Smoggysteve It needn't be the case at all that all arms of the company will fold if there's no overall buyer, and I'm sure it won't be. The creditors will most likely split the company assets up to maximize returns; some, like sadly Raleigh, might well die but a standalone popular brand with three factories making 90,000 bikes a year and a WT supply contract is unlikely not to attract a buyer.

Someone I met at a walking, wheeling and cycling conference said the way to sell active travel to Tory and Reform types is to talk about dog walking. Then they suddenly get its importance.

@mitsky most of those are probably bought online, so that will be tough to do anything about.

Not sure being a marquis brand is a good strategy - even though most of them probably have a fair bit of disposable cash to chuck away on a bike, there can't be that many of them around, and the subset of them that are interested in cycling must be vanishingly small.

Not sure if I'm missing something but presumably this extends to those selling modification kits too, not just vehicles that are already illegal out of the box?

@Rendel Harris As a subsidiary company, unless there is a buyer then they all die. I would hope there is a buyer but the bike industry is difficult to predict. Lapierre are neither a budget brand or a full on marquis brand either. That makes it a lot more dangerous for them as a brand. The shift towards people buying Chinese bikes is contributing and these are the brands which are hit hardest. Cheaper chinese bikes are not going to effect Colnago or Pinarello, the attract a different market. Lapierre could easily go and if no one sees them as a viable worthwhile brand to rescue.