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@SecretSam unfortunately there is little suggestion that these laws would impact that, even if AliX managed to achieve 100% compliance overnight. Plenty of those e-motos are compliant with the current legislation and perfectly legal to import to the UK/EU and sell to customers. It's just that it is then illegal to use them on public roads. The other pathway is people buying components like motors, batteries etc. individually, and then jerry-rigging them together to build an "e-bike" (which again is legal to make/own, just not legal to use on public roads). Compliance might be more useful here - it probably won't stop being buying the parts and building the illegal ebikes with them, but might mean those ebikes and their batteries are less likely to catch fire!

@oceandweller So you spent two decades living in a place you hate with no redeeming features at all? Doesn't that make you a bit stupid? We don't have border guards you know, everyone is free to leave at any time. But yeah, apart from an arts and culture scene that makes London regularly top the polls not only as an overall cultural destination but in numerous categories with three world-leading symphony orchestras, an astonishing collection of galleries and museums (most of them free), world-renowned theatre and opera and so on, so many green spaces and trees (Richmond Park and Hampstead Heath "average"? Really?) that London actually technically qualifies as a forest, a two-millenium history that has left some of the greatest Gothic,Renaissance and Baroque buildings to be found anywhere, one of the best combined mass transit systems, some of the most famous sporting venues, clubs and tournaments in the world, an incredibly vibrant popular culture of gigs and comedy, amazing pubs, an astonishing range of restaurants covering every style and culture, lower crime rates than many other parts of the UK, comparable to or lower than similar European cities and far lower than any city in the USA of remotely comparable size, some of the cleanest air of any major capital city... as for the "vicious" inhabitants, as in most places you get what you bring, if you're friendly and open and kind you'll get it back. Perhaps you aren't. Drivers in London are no worse than in any other major city I've cycled in, and I've cycled in a lot, and a lot better than some other places, and the rapidly-expanding cycle networks and infrastructure are making cycling safer every year. No redeeming features at all. Weird that so many people from all over the world seem desperate to live here and that outside the far east, specifically Hong Kong and Bangkok, we are the world's most visited tourist destination, ain't it?

@wtjs

@karimsadouk60@gmail.com Get some road tax and a number plate so you’re as accountable as motor vehiclal and then you can cry as much as you want The quality and intelligence of the road.cc trolls, like the quality and intelligence of police officers is declining

I guess it's which rules *I* am keen on vs. which risks I don't give a stuff about, because I'm alright Jack? I think that's kept people arguing for the entirety of history and I doubt being in or out of a bigger group will change that much Noting that a rather big group of states (the United States) isn't often held up as a terrible example of petty bureaucracy and risk-aversion (for better or worse).

So the fake pikeys who don't pay towards society get favoured over hard-working cyclists?

It's about time those louts on illegal e-motos were stopped, they're a menace. And I refuse to use delivery services for take-aways. Not least because I rarely get take-aways...

@oceandweller Viciously aggressive inhabitants? Can the trolls try harder please.

@jackcycles Utter bs. The worst pass i've ever seen, on a club mate, was in Essex.

@oceandweller Thanks Nige