rsa supporting e-scooters

Tenzor07

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123490100#Comment_123490100

Seizure rates are low until Gards are allowed to pursue and bring to a stop any high speed eBikes/Scooters they see. Which is highly unlikely given some of the criminal charges brought against Gardai who pursue cars..

Kaisr Sose

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123490208#Comment_123490208

Yes, I am aware of the bind AGS are in on that. That needs to be addressed asap. I. The UK they are able to make contact with vehicles to bring puruit to an end, including motorcycles. Not sure about e-bike/scooters.

However, most of the people I see on these higher powered units are unlikely to try to evade Garda.

Paddigol

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123490051#Comment_123490051

Yeah, I was passed by one a couple of years back on the N11. I was doing about 35kmph so it was easily cruising at 50kmph uphill.

I'm also sure I saw an ad in a shop window in bray a few years back where one of the big selling points for the model they were selling was its ability to reach some ridiculous speed.

All it would have taken was for the powers that be to have gotten the finger out 6/ 7 years ago when it was clear that eBike and eScooters were here to stay and we could have avoided the mass influx of illegal products. But instead it was head in the sand mode and belated finger wagging as they throw the under-resourced Gardai yet another issue to police.

JMcL

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123490051#Comment_123490051

I had a colleague with a sit on yoke with 2 motors. He reckoned it could do 80km/h and I wouldn't dispute that. I remember leaving work one day and the entrance is off a roundabout on a dual carriageway, the exit approaching the roundabout being on a fairly steep downhill. Having been just behind him on the approach and doing in the region 30km/h, by the time I turn right on the (fairly large) roundabout, he'd disappeared around the next corner several hundred meters away.

MojoMaker

20km/h limit seems pointlessly low. That's going to bring scoots into conflict with average bicycle speeds, which can't be good. The rest of the continent has a 25km/h limit I think? Why did we have to be different.

JMcL

https://electrotraveller.com/regulation-guide-to-riding-electric-scooters-in-the-eu/

Absolutely all over the place across the bloc. We've the lowest max power as well, though 1000W as allowed in Estonia and a few other places seems excessive. The bike regulations seem much more harmonised