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bike rule (lemmy.world)
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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (10 children)

The police here have test systems that measure the power of the bike, if it’s over 250w, can go over 15mph etc. The bike gets crushed.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    How do the test systems work? Surely theres a way to beat them or just don't get caught.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Not really - unless you have a known model with the correct stickers your bike gets fully tested and searched top to bottom for test defeat devices.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    So you buy a known model with the correct stickers and switch out the motor and related circuits. If they're anything like bore-swaps, the motor will have the same case and say 250W on it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    They still put the known models on a dyno, so you do all that work and spend all that money and it still gets crushed.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    When? Also it's probably not hard to have a setting to only use 250 watts of power. Illegally modified ebikes and emopeds are a thing everywhere, do you think the UK is uniquely effective at combating them?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    All the details here: they just stop people randomly in the street and test them. https://youtu.be/XcFuN2fitOU

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Holy shit I forgot how much british news loves its fascism.

    But yeah, it shouldn't be too hard to put together a bike that can beat the tests, but it might require some creativity, such as setting up the phone holder to disengage the >250W circuit, so you can take your phone, hand the bike to the pig, and it will pass the test.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The bike gets crushed.

    Hmm, this really reminds me of the book "1984" by George Orwell. No, I have not read it, but imagine it's that.

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