Illegal e-bikes to be seized and destroyed in major New South Wales crackdown
Posted by Marlon_Ranch
Illegal e-bikes to be seized and destroyed in major New South Wales crackdown
Posted by Marlon_Ranch
23 Comments
So basically all the Ubereats, Doordashers and tweens in the eastern suburbs?
People who drive the legal ones, can you slow the fuck down on pedestrian pathways. I always feel like I’m going to be sliced in half with their ridiculous speeds.
Such a comfort to know this law exists next time I’m riding on a non-existent bike path with my daughter and a jacked up Ford ranger tries to run me off the road.
This seems extremely flawed. I’m not aware of any speed detection devices which are calibrated to be used on bicycles… And of course they can naturally go over 25km/hr. Without a motor I can maintain over 30 for a decent amount of time.
Why not enforce the laws already established and confiscate all ebikes with a throttle? Why make it complicated by trying to catch them with speed cameras? Is it so the wealthy kids in Northern beaches with their powerful parents don’t get their Christmas presents taken away?
ETA: okay so they have a dyno device. That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard of. Are police meant to stop the rider, compel them to use the dyno, then remove the bike?
Surely just revving a throttle and calling it a day skips that whole hoopla and means they can get more done.
Meh i live in an area of high deliveries.. they re fine, there’s to many pedestrians for them to speed up
On the other hand the casual lime rent riders and fat ebikes can be extremely careless
Can someone with dyno knowledge weigh in? My understanding is that these things need to be calibrated for whatever is being tested? How will these devices be calibrated between each e-bike? There’s are many different makes and models with various wheel diameters, batteries, weights etc
Every top gear and might car mod episode which features a car on a dyno isn’t exactly a quick process and the equipment is used by trained mechanics.
We’ve seen a massive shift from motorbikes and scooters to these in the food delivery service. Even an illegal one is significantly safer than a motorbike. Is this just going to lead to motorscooters moving back to the most popular delivery device and cause more deaths and injuries on the road?
This seems reminiscent of the vaping debate, where vaping has been the most successful thing in stopping people smoking cigarettes.
Can we remove all the lime bikes and those companies that just leave their shit everywhere. Either that or force them to make proper end stations
Just because kids who can’t use social media anymore played outside and disturbed some rich people’s game of golf, they’re crushing e-bikes?
They should go around unannounced to schools and do mass inspections. Grabbing the occasional dickhead on the road won’t do shit.
Great news but remains to be seen if they will enforce it properly.
Parents of children that go to school with my kids have dropped thousands into ebikes in my area with zero concern about legality. The attitude of if it is sold it must be legal is annoying me so much. Or, but everyone already has an illegal bike so what’s the problem?
All the lime bikes are “illegal” then, no? I hit 40kmh on those
Gooooooood. Make sure they get the super expensive ones too. Fuck them
Just treat them for what they are, motorcycles, and enforce that. Licences, registration, CTP, helmets, off footpaths, etc etc. We already have motorcycles AND rules for motorcycles that work well enough.
As a cyclist, good! Real e-bikes are great for getting people into cycling. These are e-mopeds pretending to be e-bikes
I ride a completely legal pedal assist eBike and it’s amazing for getting around. I wish more people would do it as it’s a great alternative to cars and even public transport.
Every single time I ride to/from work, someone on a throttled bike goes past me like I’m standing still, blows through red lights, rides dangerously in traffic etc. They make all cyclists look worse.
Cops could set up a trap along Oxford St or the Bourke St cycleway and catch dozens of these bikes in a few hours.
About time.
So blame the rider not the shop that’s providing them with the illegal product yeah makes so much sense. So stupid! A lot of those eastern suburbs shitheads riding illegal fat e-bikes all have a local shop branded on them. Like why wouldn’t you just stop it at the source.
All the laws round these e-bikes are so illogical. I don’t want people riding dodgy e-bikes unsafely either but I’m also a person that now has an illegal ebike just because mine was custom built many years ago by a trained bicycle mechanic in a bike shop specialising in e-bikes. I just wanted a specific frame and now I can’t even take it on a train. Thousands of dollars down the drain because they don’t know how to be nuanced about banning the risky parts of the industry.
Edit: also destroying a bike rather than fining and forcing them to adhere to the laws with a speed cut off makes zero sense. So much money down the drain for what?
Minns is so excited at the prospect of stealing young people’s property and destroying it. Puts a real gleam in his eye.
Good.
Yay for the nanny state.
Fuck this stupid country, it’s stupid government and the idiot voters who blindly allow it all to happen.
If the motorcycle was invented today, you can guarantee it would be banned in this country.
Good. Sick of these stupid cunts parking right in the door way of trains, sick of these dimwits almost running you over on the sidewalk. If you’re too lazy to pedal and too cowardly to ride on the road after age 12 you shouldn’t be riding one, and if it has a goddamn battery why TF you on a train? Peak laziness
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