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I got attacked on my local ride - Bath to Bristol the other week. There’s a problem with youths clad all in black - face coverings the lot, riding around on illegal E-bikes (those throttle type) - and two of them zoom past me crowding out then cycle path - going the other way to me. Then I heard an electric buzz coming up from the rear behind me and one of them just shoulder shoved me right off my unicycle and I was slamming into the verge.[/quote]
It might be time to start running cameras.
I’ve been running front and rear cameras on my bikes since 2011. It’s not so easy to fit them to a yike - I use a bodycam on the front, which isn’t great because there’s so much side-to-side movement. But I recently bought a seatpost mounted rear camera from Chilli Tech that might work well on a yike.
Even the best video footage won’t be great for identifying the morons riding electric motorbikes, though, because the buggers always cover their faces .
Sorry to hear of your incident, it just makes you quite sad about the state of things.
Legal or not, it is high time there is legislation passed requiring these things that are basically electric motorbikes to require a licence and insurance to be on the road – I saw one guy today, zooming about it city centre traffic, no helmet, no attempt to pedal etc – another on one of these scooter things you stand on (with about 6 inch wheels) in the middle of 4 lanes of traffic, stops at traffic lights, gets off, walks across pedestrian crossing to other side of lights and off again – another idiot on an ‘ordinary’ e-bike (not a Penny Farthing ‘ordinary bicycle’ ) going up a reasonably steep hill in busy traffic pretty quickly, cranks barely going round, one hand on handlebars, looking like he is on FaceTime with someone on his phone…
Maybe requiring a driving licence and insurance might curtail them a bit – and might mean that people might have to wait just a bit longer for their Deliveroo order…
You could upload the gmx data, then we could see where you went through. I’ve been there on my unicycle before, but I don’t know a single spot. The first picture with the single trail looks fantastic. Even I could probably ride that. Where is that?
Last weekend there was the open swiss chamionship in muni downhill (saturday), the youngste female participant Ronja from Team Ursli became the very first Swiss Champion (Ben Soja won the male champion title).
But as we already knew: Muni is for the Ursli not a race sport, it is a mountaion experience, that’s why we invited some of the participants at sunday for some Ursli Muni
That legislation already exists. Under UK law, if the motor can provide power while the rider isn’t pedalling, or at speeds above 25kph, or if the motor can provide continuous power > 250W, then it’s a motor vehicle and is subject to all the requirements of a motor vehicle.
Our legislation is good. Enforcement is lacking (but it’s starting to happen - Avon & Somerset Constabulary, at least, are taking the issue seriously).
Thanks for the information, I wasn’t familiar with what the actual limits are (other than being vaguely aware of some level of discontent that they aren’t high enough – YouTube seems to present you with things you never thought you needed to see!). I assume that quite a high percentage of these things get modded to increase their output and speed.
Anyhow, it is good to hear that the police are starting to take the issue seriously though. Hopefully that makes its way up here at some point but the police are probably spread pretty thinly as it is.
I should probably post a picture of one of my unicycles here at some point
Today was the first of what is planned to be weekly “rolls” with our new Unconventional Transportation Club! Very fun 4.5 miles. Along with my unicycle, there was a onewheel and two rollerbladers.
My favourite part of this sign is that wheelchairs are considered equivalent to bikes or skateboards
Wheelchairs grinding rails and ledges in public places is a real widespread problem!
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Just remember your life is more valuable than your phone or wallet.
) going up a reasonably steep hill in busy traffic pretty quickly, cranks barely going round, one hand on handlebars, looking like he is on FaceTime with someone on his phone…
