Brit leccy bikes

[Count Steer]

Article in The Guardian. Some of you may have to grit your teeth when clicking and some when reading.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... dApp_Other

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

£4.5K for a heavy FS1E seems expensive

[demographic]

I like the idea and with enough money spare I'd have a lecky bike.
Quieter bikes sounds like an ace idea to me.

I'm not one of those people who feels the need for a loud bike, it's not an advantage to me.

[Count Steer]

I like the idea and with enough money spare I'd have a lecky bike.
Quieter bikes sounds like an ace idea to me.

I'm not one of those people who feels the need for a loud bike, it's not an advantage to me.

I'd be v tempted by one of these (but not at £11.5k). Might wait for the s/h market to get going.

[demographic]

There's various young kids hossing about here on lecky bikes already, some of them look quite entertaining if not fully legal.

[asmethurst99]

I like the idea of removable batteries .

[Mussels]

I like the idea of removable batteries .

For me that's a big selling point, apart from being easier to charge it's a big theft deterrent.

[slowsider]

I like the idea of removable batteries .

For me that's a big selling point, apart from being easier to charge it's a big theft deterrent.

S'funny, I see that as making them lighter to lift into a van

[Count Steer]

I like the idea of removable batteries .

For me that's a big selling point, apart from being easier to charge it's a big theft deterrent.

S'funny, I see that as making them lighter to lift into a van

It's a glass half full/empty thing. My thought was a removable battery is a nickable battery.

I suppose they could do something clever like each battery is associated with a bike so scrotes couldn't nick a battery-less bike and stick a non-associated battery in. Nor could they nick a battery and stick it in something else. Buy a new or second battery and the dealer keys the battery for the bike (or bikes). Unfortunately a) it costs, and b) scrotes seem to be as good at this sort of thing as the security people, and c) some scrotes probably have contacts in a dealership.

(I did see some pond-life nicking a scoot, in broad daylight, outside a shop, on a busy central London street. A quite beefy chap came out of the shop and said 'Oi! What do you think you're doing?'. To which they replied 'Nicking it, what the does it look like?' and carried on).

[Couchy]

Why ? With leccy so expensive they are no cheaper to run and much more expensive to buy

[Count Steer]

Why ? With leccy so expensive they are no cheaper to run and much more expensive to buy

Charge them at work.

[Bigyin]

There's various young kids hossing about here on lecky bikes already, some of them look quite entertaining if not fully legal.

Lots of this going on here now, without the helmets, normally balaclavas as none of the bikes are legal and most have upgraded batteries