{"id":19981,"date":"2025-09-04T04:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/britains-illegal-e-bike-boom-desperation-delivery-drivers-and-unthinkable-danger\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T04:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:37:15","slug":"britains-illegal-e-bike-boom-desperation-delivery-drivers-and-unthinkable-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/britains-illegal-e-bike-boom-desperation-delivery-drivers-and-unthinkable-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s illegal e-bike boom: desperation, delivery drivers \u2013 and unthinkable danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E-bikes can legally travel at 15.5mph. But the fastest the police have seized was capable of 70mph. What will stop the rise of these souped-up and potentially fatal vehicles?<\/p>\n<p>A busy Wednesday morning on Bishopsgate in London and Sgt Stuart Ford of the City of London police is pointing out possible offenders. \u201cHe\u2019s not pedalling,\u201d he says, indicating a man on a bike on the other side of the road. \u201cStill not pedalling, but he is going downhill, he might be all right. I\u2019d still pull him over and have a look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not today, though, because the non-pedalling possible offender is heading north, while Ford\u2019s team \u2013 two members of the cycle response unit he set up two years ago and leads \u2013 are facing south on the opposite side of the road. A lot of the unit\u2019s work centres on illegal e-bikes; they have seized 212 so far this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2025\/sep\/04\/britains-e-bike-boom-desperation-delivery-drivers-and-unthinkable-danger\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7533c105fa1847119ac5952895e6b86b09f353e3\/639_0_7911_6328\/master\/7911.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=344d1311f4e8013d906f37e86fc1eac5\" title=\"Britain\u2019s illegal e-bike boom: desperation, delivery drivers \u2013 and unthinkable danger\" \/>E-bikes can legally travel at 15.5mph. But the fastest the police have seized was capable of 70mph. What will stop the rise of these souped-up and potentially fatal vehicles?<br \/>\nA busy Wednesday morning on Bishopsgate in London and Sgt Stuart Ford of the City of London police is pointing out possible offenders. \u201cHe\u2019s not pedalling,\u201d he says, indicating a man on a bike on the other side of the road. \u201cStill not pedalling, but he is going downhill, he might be all right. I\u2019d still pull him over and have a look.\u201d<br \/>\nNot today, though, because the non-pedalling possible offender is heading north, while Ford\u2019s team \u2013 two members of the cycle response unit he set up two years ago and leads \u2013 are facing south on the opposite side of the road. A lot of the unit\u2019s work centres on illegal e-bikes; they have seized 212 so far this year. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-bikes can legally travel at 15.5mph. But the fastest the police have seized was capable of 70mph. What will stop the rise of these souped-up and potentially fatal vehicles? A busy Wednesday morning on Bishopsgate in London and Sgt Stuart Ford of the City of London police is pointing out possible offenders. \u201cHe\u2019s not pedalling,\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/britains-illegal-e-bike-boom-desperation-delivery-drivers-and-unthinkable-danger\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Britain\u2019s illegal e-bike boom: desperation, delivery drivers \u2013 and unthinkable danger<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19981"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}