Cyclist on motorised bike with fuel tank attached “with string” warned by police

We were only talking about the Paris-Brest cake a little while back, well James did this on GBBO.

If only these motorists had number plates and insurance... I bet he didn't even pay road tax.

Seen a Deliveroo rider on one of these in central Reading last year.

Extra dangerous and illegal - because the rear disc has been replaced with the drive gear, you're only left with a front brake, unless someone has gone to the trouble of building a disk hub into a braking rim and added a rim brake at the back. I've no idea what the engine braking is like on one of them.

And that one's only got a cantilever at the front!

That said, I nearly had a head-on with a moped rider on a shared path last week - he'd done well to get it through the chicanes at one end - and I've seen one cutting straight through one of the parks in Reading.

It was literally an electric motorbike though, not bicycle with electric conversion or anything . An OSET trials bike or something similar. If it was 2 stroke it would have been unacceptable regardless of speed. They ain't light either compared to bicycles either 40-45kg.

Pedestrians, runners, double width perambulators, dog owners, scooters, e-scooters, cycles, e-cycles, horses, wheelchairs handcycles, mobility scooters, restricted electric minicross bikes. Male, female, whatever identity you want to claim, young, old, rich, poor, able bodied or not so able. I'll happily share with and respect anyone out on a cycle path as long as they don't use a noisy internal combustion engine or behave like more of a selfish twat than myself.

And they didn't sieze the illegally modified vehicle because...? 

"......section 59 of the Police Reform Act 2002, which relates to motor vehicles being driven in a manner that “is causing, or is likely to cause, alarm, distress or annoyance to members of the public."

Isn't that almost all motor vehicles?  Can't wait to see this law applied.

If you fancy one for yourself, here is one for sale...
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2437668696476988/

I've got one, lovely thing it is, made by Excelsior (Birmingham) in 1939. Its got pedals, two drive chains (one for the pedals and one for the engine) and pops along at 25mph. I do wear a helmet and it if fully insured.

I would love to win a pair of these Bont shoes

So basically it's a motorbike. No doubt if i decided to ride my motorbike around the local nature reserve I'd find myself with points on my licence at the least.

Seen a few of these on the roads in London. Don't understand the attraction. Haven't looked into it but can't see how this would be cheaper than an eBike conversion, but noisier, more complicated, more expensive to run and more likely to get pulled over.

Why the warning? Do they really think the sort of people to do this are gonna take it home and make it legal or something???

(Double post)

Saw one of these two stroke conversion jobs on an old Trek 26" mtb going up the A4 in Newbury last week. Doing about 25mph, with the rider dangling a bag full of groceries off each wrist.

There's a few going around where I live in south Wales similar to that, the noise of the bloody thing would be enough to put me off, not to mention the fumes.

You very rarely see any Police or PCSO's here so they know there's little chance of being stopped, a lot of the young guys don't even bother to wear a helmet on a motor bike in the summer either, but as there's not enough Police to go around, they are unlikely to be bothered by them.

The local Police station was closed down a few years ago and the nearest one is in the Library, a few miles away from here.

Should not be cycling in a nature reserve.
Crush the bike (well, send to Africa).

the saddle pointing upwards like that is certainly a crime.

They should not be warned, they should be commended. This is real innovation. best cycle produced in our fair shores since the Raleigh company closed

Illegal on several counts and doing no favours to anyone so good job.