This week's events in Cardiff are a bit of an eye opener.
I'm reasonably au fait with EAPCs and the requirements for the rider to be pedalling together with speed and power/weight regs. AIUI much of that applies to bikes sold after a prescribed date in the last 10 years or so. If you go out on recreational rides with people owning small wheeled folding bikes there are plenty of 'homebrew' kits out there. Not just for Bromptons but Moultons and other more esoteric stuff. No idea whether they're strictly legal but most have been around long enough to pre date the current EAPC regs. Riders are invariably male, usually well over 60 and invariably single.
There are of course factory built EAPC Bromptons.
Scooters? We've dome them before. FAr too many, whether legal hire machines or not, are ridden on pavements by riders who should be on the road. As with pedal bikes helmets etc are, rightly, optional. If I used the hire jobbies in Northampton I'd not bother with a helmet; mabe hi-viz outside the town centre.
What I think Mapmaker is referring to are true Motorbikes but with electric power. Cycle sites say the boys killed in Cardiff were riding something from this range:
surron.co.uk/
IMHO if an electric m/c can provide performance in terms of speed and acceleration equal to or better than a petrol moped or trials etc bike we should be quickly sorting out type approvals so they can be ridden legitimately and having hit squads of Police etc to sort out the rest.
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