Commuter diaries – aaaaaggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!

Not sure what your point is here - BC is a race-focused organisation, so obviously any discussion about the relationship between BC and gravel is going to be talking about racing, rather than wider gravel riding.

Seems impractical anyway - unless maybe you bag it up first.

You mean like, say, the Channel Tunnel?

Please read the article properly. The ban covers the train stations and their car parks too. Ideally any ban would be on shonky conversions only on train carriages. From what I've seen in London, a good start would be "is the battery attached with parcel tape?" (!) But you could ban all conversions and leave dedicated EPACs out. It's pretty obvious which ones they are with even a modicum of training.

@GravelIsNothingNew In the same vein I could demand the right to take my car onto a train. Or a petrol can, for that matter. Cause why can you take a can of Coke, but not a can of petrol? And do you even realize how impracticible your idea of "banning junk websites" is? I really wonder how exactly you would enforce it. And BTW the battery itself is rarely the problem, usually it's the connection and assembly that cause problems.

@kingleo Exactly. And that could be a step forward. Especially for city bikes.

@chrisonabike But why put the accountability on the ticket officer to discern good e-bikes from bad ones? How is the average railway worker supposed to know whether a wire is for power or just a control/whatever cable wrapped in external padding or into a bundle (which is, ironically, done for safety, but could make the wire look "suspect" to the untrained eye).

@kingleo A laptop battery is typically much smaller and as such, less dangerous. And a laptop is typically not tossed around and does not fall on pavement or crash into things every now and then.

@AidanR But you can't take petrol or diesel onto a train, just like you can't take explosives. So that's a non-argument. But still, you can't expect a railway worker to know how professional your conversion is. That is just nonsense.

@Ramz Your home is your responsibility. And generally you can't take any bike into most closed indoor spaces anyway. And a train is even more different, as it is a closed space that could end up a good few kilometers from the nearest fire station.