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Do electric bikes need tighter regulations? A BBC Panorama investigation has found that some more powerful and faster e-bikes, while openly sold as commuter bikes, are illegal to ride on the road.

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Walking Marky1 year ago

Motorcycle. Not e-bike

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VNS1 year ago

Liars. These are illegal motorbike, not e-bikes. Why is the BBC creating a divide?

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Adespoto1 year ago

So not e bikes at all then, in law. You just confuse people when you can't get the basics correct.

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Gordon B-P #FBPE #Vets4EU1 year ago

Illegal electric motorcycles are already banned. Legal e-bikes are not. Do look up the difference.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social1 year ago

"It seems e-bikes are everywhere". Yes, even on cycle tracks where this child wondered into before colliding with a person riding a legally sound e-bike. Why show this? Let's have a Panorama episode on why SUV drivers keep killing children. Even when they're at school.

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keith aldred1 year ago

You STILL doubling down on this crap?🤦🏻‍♂️

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Cycle Lane1 year ago

What is required, is that the current legislation is enforced. Legal e-bikes are not the issue, the illegal bikes, eg those used by delivery riders & sold by shops under the pretence that they are legal.

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Ceri Hirst1 year ago

maybe get @BBCRosAtkins and the BBC Verify team to look into this questionable journalism, these are not e-bikes, more electronic motorcycles, with no need to pedal in most cases, modified like adding an engine to a bicycle to make a motorcycle

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tom 🎸1 year ago

Is this supposed to be “journalism”?

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