U.K. Ebike Law 2024

Update on the U.K. ebike laws under consultation allowing 500w motors, no throttle constrictions up to 15.5 mph.

so there’s going to be a general election which is great so that’s going to put things back months so what I’m looking at now is what’s the future of the consultation and there’s been some updates so let’s have a look at those so there’s been an online consultation recently between hosted by an MP uh Trudy Arison who used to work for the Department of Transport or department for transport um and Industry leaders such as Brompton the bicycle Association and various people who are vested interest and keeping ebikes off the road or at least at a minimum even the motorcyclists don’t like us because they look at us as being a threat they’ look at ebikes being a threat to their businesses and within that they all have a vested interest in sort of making sure this this consultation at 500 watt Motors and three throttles up to 15.5 mph it doesn’t go through because this makes even e bikes a tempting option my problem with a lot of this is that the vested interests are actually trying to pull the muscle over the top of these ebikes bromton Brompton has a real serious point that it would take them five years to catch up and build an ebike that Rivals a Chinese ebike company and is legal and tested and everything else what’s their problem it’s Financial it’s all Financial all of this is financial and with us looking at now 2025 if this does go through it’s another year away and even then they’re going to be they don’t want this the British cycle Association doesn’t want this they want their mammals riding around at 30 mph in mermaid suits they want they want they want they want the status quo on the road and they’re a menace they’re a worse Menace than ebikes and all I keep reading is danger danger danger danger well I’m not being funny but more people die on on normal cycles each year than ebikes so I don’t know what the danger is and one of the other things is the barrier to entry for people who are heavier or disabled and the cost I looked at the ebike that Trudy Arison said that she rides around with a 250 W Motor in the Lake District and she has no problems getting appe pills well that’s this it’s nearly three grand that’s a financial barrier to entry for anybody that’s wanting an ebike for a start off especially low paid workers who would like to use these to get to working back the whole industry is against ebikes more so Chinese evokes because they can’t compete cost wise and they know people like them and they know that given the choice you pay two grand 1500 Qui for an E Bike not if bromton brought one a decent one out it’s going to be five grand people can’t afford that you know then they’re they’re going to be the ones that are barrier to entry for most people so this is about British Industries talk saying we don’t want this the motorcyclists don’t want this because if you’re given a choice that you can get an ebike that’s next to nothing to run or a motorbike to go work what are you going to do that’s their biggest fear so at the moment we’re now looking at like I said 2025 before any of this goes through if it goes through you’ve got industry leaders trying to stop it from happening so one of the arguments is where did this this proposal come from initially and people say it just come up out of the blue well it didn’t actually that the consultation has been going on for pretty much a year people knew about it and now they’re trying to react to it and within that it’s the industry in the UK that needs to catch up it’s not the fault of Chinese ebike manufacturers that have jumped the gun make a good product on the whole well I’ll say on the whole they make good products at a price point that people can afford that biggest barrier to entry is going to be the price of the boik and like I said if bromton brings one out it’s going to be five grand if it brings out a decent one it’s going to be £5,000 there’s there’s people like pedal me that are fighting for this for the disabled the people who want the mental health benefits of these bikes they’re fighting for the 500 W Motor and the free throttle the free throttle is another barrier to entry for a lot of people if you can’t use your throttle you can’t move these ebikes there’s a lot of vested interests by different companies to make sure this doesn’t go through there’s a lot of vested interest but not one of them’s thinking about the general public they’re thinking about profits they’re not thinking about the health benefits the mental health benefits of these ebug when Trudy Arison was questioned about the necessity of 500 W Motors in a free throw she actually said this is her words um where’s it gone absolute rubbish I have a Ribble L Al which allows me up to 250 Watts I live in the lake district and I I would say on level one which more it’s more like 75 WS power it’s absolutely adequate for most of the passes in the late District National Park really so this a picture of a that’s skinny ass that wants normal siiz people to ride around on silly little low power ebikes because it’s all right for her it’s not all right for everybody is it that’s one of the big things it’s not all right for everybody this isn’t a clean sheet for everybody there’s no datum that you can set it off as an average so don’t expect anything to happen till 2025 if we’re lucky and don’t expect it to actually go through because vested interest for everybody from the motorcyclist to the mammals that you see around dressed up as mermaids and everybody else wants theira and they’re saying 250 watts is enough it’s okay to ride a normal bike at 30 m hour you know dressed up in that well-known body armor Lyra and if you ride into somebody you do just as much much damage is an ebike that weighs 35 kilos at 15 mph and these these idiots get splattered all over the road every day you can see the way they ride and half the way they deserve it they don’t own the road and now they’re trying to own the fact that people can’t own ebikes what motors free throttles on there usually the people say that you’re cheating well it’s not a race we’re just trying to get from a to V you on the other and think you’re on the tour to France it’s diabolical and it pisses me off that we have now had the chance to change some of the barrier to entries on eik Law and people are footing around with it messing about with it arguing against it for absolutely no other reason than financial or bravado and that makes me sick it should make you sick too anyway I’ll leave a link to some of the stuff in the comment section below and well after this news try and have a nice day