Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Trooper wrote:
Is it legal to do that commute on it? I suspect technically not...
I was looking at these boards when I was looking at house in Milton Keynes, as I could have ridden it to station on the bike paths, and then left it in a locker during the day at the station. Which was a great idea, apart from it looked like it wasn't really legal to use a powered board on the bike paths, and MK station doesn't have any lockers anymore...
Technically not legal, although rarely enforced I believe. Same deal with the electric scooters that are all over SF now. Some of those startups want to come to London but so far the fact they are illegal has stayed their hand.
(I reckon publicly rentable electric scooters are actually a pretty good idea and not, for once, total Bay Area nonsense.)
Where a lot of unusual vehicles become illegal is that they are fast enough to need to comply with Construction & Use regulations but can't do so because of their design.
Electrically assisted bikes are OK as long as they are limited to 15mph before the motor cuts out, but they also have brakes and reflectors which these don't.
The reality is that you'd be very unlikely to be stopped, and unless you are trundling up a hill at 15mph you can always say you were using leg power rather than electric.