Party Vibe

I first tried out an e-bike in the late 1990s in SE England, that a friend had been given by their sister – that one used 3 burglar alarm accus (heavy lead acid ones) and looked like something the seniors would ride (indeed that model was popular with the older generations) so didn’t particularly appeal to me – it was only around 2009 that they were made in a similar design to mountain bikes.

Before I got mine I was regularly riding the 30km from Suffolk to the Norfolk border area anyway which I could just about manage, using an e-bike made it relatively effortless in comparison. There are actually a fair few suppliers and builders round your way especially South Shields area (which I think is where they always used to make useful stuff) and there was a custom builder over the border in Scotland but they had to close down as some of their kits were so strong (400W+ motors) they contravened every traffic law in the EU :laugh_at:

not too far off the cycling-related Schlager they often play on Dutch pirate stations :laugh_at:

TBH if I didn’t ride an e-bike I’d have to take proper illegal drugs to manage the same distances/speeds (this is what the Belgian feds busted various Tour De France teams for although not sure if all of those are stims or some are just precursors which hints the stuff was being cooked up on site)

La formulation, au moins partielle, du pot belge revendu sur le Tour de France entre 2003 et 2007 est, selon les analyses réalisées pour la justice belge1,2 :

phénylacétone (BMK) ;
formétamide (en) ;
amphétamines ;
4-méthyl-5-phénylpyrimidine ;
di-β-phénylisopropylamine (DPIA).

more about this stuff here (auf Deutsch)

Cycling4Fans – Doping: Pot belge

other than the lung transplant (as mine still seem to be in surprisingly good shape in spite of my lifestyle) the rest (which I have either done or considered in the past; though thankfully not at the same time) are likely to make me even more of a risk to myself and the surroundings than I am at present – another reason for zero tolerance here is loads of people were driving around full of benzos, coke, speed, alcohol etc in barely roadworthy vehicles and only half of them had valid licenses at all. Suffolk is geographically large (compared to the entire Greater London area which is only 30km from one end to the other) and there were a shit ton of crashes especially in the more rural areas……

@tryptameanie 984746 wrote:

Yes I can imagine you will kill fewer people with a pedal powered vehicle lol. Still wouldn’t allow you on one though.

there are reasons why the Dutch tend to ride big heavy slow bikes even though every other kind of bike is just as easily available in NL, if you read the 112 news websites you will understand why (and East Anglia is only the other side of the North Sea) :laugh_at: