WTF, there is no way that PC plod would allow that to make it on the roads, that is an instant accident just waiting to happen
Actually as long as none of it extends past the sides or rear of the car and it's properly attached it would be legal. It looks OK to me from that picture. You would of course have to tell your insurance company and they may have a different view of it.
My issue is that tha is the sort of thing that the police would stop and quetion you about. But my current bugbear, electric scooters seem to be ignored. I saw one on Friday. A woman on the pavement weaving in and out of pedestrians going to a primary scholl round 9AM. She had her kid stood on the platform in front of her I don't have a motorcycle licence. I bet if I was doing the same thing on a unregistered & uninsured trials bike they would call the police and I'd get multiple charges. They don't bother with the scooters but its EXACTLY the same offences
(and no it wasn't a rental one which are "registered" and insured but are not allowed on the pavement or multiple riders)
If you look at the eBike forums, this is a source of much annoyance; before COVID, this whole e-cycle thing was a issue being contested heavily in many municipalities. The concern in eBike circles is that legitimate, low-performance users of electrified commuter bicycles will be swept into the trash along with these morons making 2-wheeled Teslas and driving them without license or insurance.
Meanwhile, on the e-Vehicle forums, those morons are gloating over how they can get away with putting a 25-40kW motor up on 2 wheels with a battery made from recycled UPS Li-ion packs and get performance rivaling a Kawasaki Ninja.
They just don't get that a motor is still a motor, whether gas or electric, and it is
still a fucking
motorcycle; replacing the back footpegs with nonfunctional bicycle pedals doesn't change that a bit. And none of them even know that these are all a
motor vehicle, and are legally subject to all the same safety testing before they're allowed on the highways as any other motor vehicle.
Which, in the case of actual motorcycle safety regulations, is already not a really high bar... but pretty sure a frame cobbled together with grand-dad's old stick welder in the basement is still not going to even come close to passing, nor should a "DIY Electric Motorcycle" kit as are being sold in many places on the internet which get around even these sadly out-of-date regulations because they are not sold as an assembled vehicle.
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