The ban would be more effective for *all* throttle-equipped e-bikes, or ensuring that they are licensed and enforced properly based on what they are: mopeds/motorcycles.

Genuinely, these fat-tyred electrics are causing a lot of harm towards legit ebikes, and pushing public e-bike adoption back.

On any Bosch-equipped bike all you needed to do was zip tie the wheel magnet sensor to face the crankarm instead of the wheel.

However. You did still need to pedal to hit 40kph+.

Throttles have no place on e-bikes, and e-mopeds that are throttled have different rules they call under.

I won’t be naive and say that I also know there’s a lot of latent racism in this stuff.

However the bikes themselves remain illegal for public roads in most places, so regardless of the person riding, a ban / confiscation is warranted - and loopholes need to be closed that allow for the sale.

Mod the former, and start going mega fast?

I see Dutch police happily confiscating these bikes. There is a similar fat-tyre scourge with these bikes in the UK, and I’d argue the vast majority are illegal in their ability to have a throttle. You’re seeing similar crackdowns here.

It’s easy to check e-bike types in the NL, making enforcement somewhat easier. There are two types - normal & speed.

Normal cut out at 20kph, and nothing special.

Speed do up to 45kph. Require helmet, horn, mirrors, licence plate. Cannot be ridden on normal cycle ways @ speed.

Just a quick one, the Leith Harbour & Newhaven Community Council is taking this up to follow-up on and keep tabs on.

Is there an email address I can contact you with?

I don’t have a photo - but amazingly the roadworks barriers actually stopped at the bike lanes on BOTH SIDES to allow for cyclists to pass through without hindrance.

Chapeau construction team. I tip my cycling cap to you.

Can confirm. Dawn Patrol rolled down it today no issues.

Yep. Same as @badbeard.bsky.social says. A quick pop on Protron or whatever and away I go to get rid of that DM.

Feel so protected.

Amazed you got a photo of the shop without a car parked on the pavement in front of it.

The path there too is decently well used by walkers and cyclists alike.

There could be huge improvements for the entire area if it were opened up a bit more - hopefully Harbour 31 can do something with Marine Espl./Albert Road connections to the West properly!!!

I’ve ridden this many a time when working in the city. The fact that you can continue to connect it past the station towards the River and all the great stuff up and down that is utterly brilliant.

10/10. Would ride any day I could.

Two things really stand out here to me:

1. The mega-high front end would’ve impacted ability to see that there was a bollard there. Front sensors not enough to stop vision with small object.

2. Electric vehicle with considerable mass. No wonder the bollard was fully pulled from the ground.

This is amazing! Thank you for your support!!!

Just saw this on the Edinburgh Gravel group:

Ya know … they could make this informative instead of threatening just by adding the text: “Remember:” at the front.

As someone with ILR, the amount of times I have to tell people this who don’t know is ridiculous.

The messaging as a whole would still be ghastly, but at least we’d be learning.

Why is it that a private business gets to have such control over greater transport within the city?