THERE can’t be many of us who haven’t had a close shave with an e-bike, be it on a road, pavement or footpath.Invariably, it’ll be a food courier bearing special cargo — someone’s dinner — in a big box on the back.Well, it turns out that some are legal, many aren’t, and plenty of people don’t know which is which.
Those who do know the rules often ignore them because no one seems to have much of a clue as to how to go about enforcing those rules anyway.Start pedalling and the motor joins in to help you along.These kind of e-bikes are perfectly legal and, for many people, have improved city living no end.The real problems come with some of the bigger e-bikes, widely available online and in shops.There is no separate throttle or switch to get you to full speed.
This is where you can have the price of a bike deducted from your payslip before you’ve been taxed on that income.insists illegal bikes aren’t eligible for the schemes, but many of the retailers we looked at don’t seem to have got the message.Focusing their minds is the fact, in that area, an e-bike is thought to be used in a criminal act every three days.Those that aren’t can be really dangerous.
They can catch fire, often in dramatic fashion, and they can get the rustiest of old bikes going at quite absurd speeds. In making the Panorama film, I rode my motorbike alongside a rattling old cargo bike with seats on the back for — God forbid — children.I was on a 1300cc Yamaha and felt I could barely keep up.There are no figures available for accidents, injuries or fatalities specifically involving e-bikes, legal or illegal.But whatever the numbers are, they are only going to go one way unless we get a grip on what’s allowed, what isn’t, and what we’re going to do about enforcing the rules.
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