Update on N.I. e-bike regs.

[TedG]

Thanks to all you guys who stayed with us through this fiasco.
All your input, support and opinions were much appreciated.
Although I don't use Facebook I have been led towards a Facebook site PSNI North Coast which covers the area which involved a confiscated e-bike.
The story is well down the site so keep scrolling through the mire.

The PSNI were confirming what they were originally told to do re uninsured ebikes. There was no mention however about the "condition" of the rider if indeed that was the same case.
The responses are shall we say "interesting" from a wide and varied selection, with most of them suggesting that worse crimes were going unpunished.
Others were suggesting that the law is the law and the PSNI didn't make it, they were just obliged to uphold it.
It appears to have been started before the letter which we now all have seen.

Batteries already charged regularly as instructed by Flecc.

 

[LeighPing]

The responses are shall we say "interesting" from a wide and varied selection, with most of them suggesting that worse crimes were going unpunished.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. Click to view the NI facebook fiasco.

 

[TedG]

Thanks LeighPing. That is the very one. Sorry I should have inserted the link - with over 500 comments apparently.

 

[Nealh]

Page say's link broken or has been removed.

 

[TedG]

Page say's link broken or has been removed.

Anne is involved with FB so she drew my attention to it originally. I have just looked again via her account and the post is still there with the 500+ comments.
Not sure why you are getting that failure.
Have to say while reading it again that the word which sums up the PSNI instruction is 90% incredulity.
Most responders had no idea this "law" existed, now that they do the PSNI are rapidly losing credibility.
Ironically they are actually only enforcing a law foisted on them.
The letter from our friend in Larne seems to confirm this.

 

[flecc]

Batteries already charged regularly as instructed by Flecc.

Don't forget the bell.

Yes, that's another N.I. anomally. The 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic specifies that all bicycles have to have bells or equivalent. That doesn't apply in the mainland UK, but Northern Ireland with its devolved transport is signed up to it so it's the law there.
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[TedG]

Page say's link broken or has been removed.

Page now appears to be updated?
The monster amount of comments has been altered considerably.

 

[flecc]

Page now appears to be updated?

I also get page broken or removed, but asking me to log in.

I'm not on Facebook though and never will be.
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[TedG]

Flecc hope you can open this. Screen grabs of PSNI warning for all on FB.
The replies are now altered from over 500 for whatever reason.........

 

[TedG]

Part two, the page was too long.

 

[TedG]

I'm not on Facebook though and never will be.
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What are you saying?
Are there two of us?
Am I not actually alone in this world?
Blimey.

 

[mike killay]

What are you saying?
Are there two of us?
Am I not actually alone in this world?
Blimey.

Me too.

 

[flecc]

What are you saying?
Are there two of us?
Am I not actually alone in this world?
Blimey.

There are indeed, and I'm not on Twitter either.

Nor do I have a smartphone, though one wouldn't be much use to me anyway. Despite being in a London borough I have no mobile phone signal on any network.

Connectivity can have steps too far, and Social Media are just that.
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[Danidl]

What are you saying?
Are there two of us?
Am I not actually alone in this world?
Blimey.

You are not alone... There are others of our kind living in the shadows

 

[LeighPing]

If you're happy with vetted, doctored and D-noticed news, no live streamed incidents and events, then feel free to carry on and ignore the benefits of fb.

 

[TedG]

There are indeed, and I'm not on Twitter either.

Nor do I have a smartphone, though one wouldn't be much use to me anyway. Despite being in a London borough I have no mobile phone signal on any network.

Connectivity can have steps too far, and Social Media are just that.
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Are we distant relatives?
OK with me

 

[flecc]

Flecc hope you can open this. Screen grabs of PSNI warning for all on FB.
The replies are now altered from over 500 for whatever reason.........View attachment 24635

Thanks Ted.
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[flecc]

If you're happy with vetted, doctored and D-noticed news, no live streamed incidents and events, then feel free to carry on and ignore the benefits of fb.

Don't have to be on Facebook to get all that. We just use the stooges who are reporting on that for us!

Would you really consider me an ill informed person?
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[TedG]

You are not alone... There are others of our kind living in the shadows

Crikey, this is nothing short of a revelation for a Bank Holiday.

 

[TedG]

Should we let this go now?
Each to their own.