OT....well a bit OT but not a lot.

Thought i'd ask this here as it seems we have experts in most
stuff apart from nuclear physics.

The daughter wants to get her boyfriend one of them small
lightweight electric scooters for xmas. Max speed 30km/h,
12v battery, 250W but i have no idea if there are legal for
a wuss aged 16 to ride either on the road or worse on the
path?

Anyone know the definative answer?

Thanks

Alan

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They are *not* legal to use on the road.

 

Or anywhere except private land
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What, even the guy that works for CERN? (whose name temporarily escapes me)

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The Nuclear Physics guy? Ivor or something, wasn't it?

 

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4021809.stm

Rick

 

http://www.wiltshire.police.uk/news/newsview.asp?id=547

Also applies to minimotos

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Well....some are. But most are not.

from http://www.powerscoots.co.uk/pages/electricscooters.htm
Big Issue: Legality

One big issue surrounding electric scooters are their legality for
road use. Many suppliers give the impression that their electric
scooters can be used on the roads. Beware; any electric scooter that
has been approved for road use will require a 'type approval
certificate' from a selected body by the EU. Only then it will become
possible to insure and then register the electric scooter with DVLA
costing £25. Once registered the user will obtain number plates making
the electric scooter legitimate for road use once road tax is
purchased. For registration form V55/5 can be obtained from DVLA. If
in doubt that an electric scooter is not road legal, ask the supplier
to prove that the electric scooter is road legal by showing you the
type approval certificate.

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My learned friend, who knows about these things, also reckons those
granny transport electric shopping buggy things fall in to the same
category.

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Nah, you meant 'Trevor'.

 

platypus emerged from their own little world to say

Dr Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering,CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University.

 

Wasn't there a song about him?

 

platypus emerged from their own little world to say

Ian Dury And The Blockheads Lyrics

Clever Trevor Lyrics

just cos I ain’t never ‘ad, no, nothing worth having
never ever, never ever
you ain’t got no call not to think I wouldn’t fall
into thinking that I ain’t too clever
and it ain’t not having oen thing nor another
niether, either is it anything, whatever
and it’s not not knowing that thier ain’t nothign showing
and I answer to the name of Trever, however

Just cos I ain’t never said, no, nothing worth saying
never ever, never ever, never ever
things ‘ave got read into what I never sad, ‘till me mouth becomes me
‘ead
which ain’t not all that clever
and it’s not not saying one thing nor another
neither, either is ist anything I haven’t said, whatever
and it ain’t not proving that me mind ain’t moving
and I answer to the naem of Trever, however

knock me down with a feather
Clever Trevor
widebrows wonder wether Clever Trevor’s clever
either have they got
nor neither haven’t not
got no right to make a clot
our of Trevor

why should I feel bad about something I ain’t ‘ad
such stupidness is mad cos nothing underfoot
comes to nothing less to add to a load of old toot
and I ain’t half not half co there’s nowhere to put it
even if I ‘ad i’m a bit of a Jack the Lad

knock me down with a feather
Clever Trevor
widebrows wonder wether Clever Trevor’s clever
either have they got
nor neither haven’t not
got no right to make a clot
our of Trevor

also, it takes much longer to get up north, the slow way

 

Dr Ivan Reid.

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Yah-hay! Whooshed!

 

< snip >

You know, I get the impression that the monotreme already knew all those
lyrics.

Have you ever heard of a rhetorical question?

 

I thought that Wessie's contribution was especially good, particularly in
light of the fragment of Ian Dury lyric I've been sporting in my sig today
)

 

Eddie emerged from their own little world to say

What was that again?

 

platypus emerged from their own little world to say

glad to be of service - where do you want the bill sent?

 

No need, I already have one of my own.

 

platypus emerged from their own little world to say

Heh. Glad you selected the innocuous rather than sinister interpretation of
that statement.