e-bike fires

[hookooekoo]

I tend to agree on e-Bikes, but as cheap transport replacing cars they are great - less pollution and congestion. I'm not keen on the ones ridden off-road by people who look basically physically fit. But let's hope that they are a gateway into riding the old-fashioned way?

I'm not really bothered about E-bikes. It's the electric motorbikes that I don't like. They're ridden by the same types that would ride a two stroke trail bike, and in the same reckless manner, but now they've gone electric you can't even hear them coming. Same applies to E-Scooters, some of which are capable of 70+ mph.

https://www.dualtron-uk.com/products/dualtron-storm-limited
The silent nature of these electric vehicles also makes them very popular with drug dealers.

 

[twain]

I'm not really bothered about E-bikes. It's the electric motorbikes that I don't like. They're ridden by the same types that would ride a two stroke trail bike, and in the same reckless manner, but now they've gone electric you can't even hear them coming. Same applies to E-Scooters, some of which are capable of 70+ mph.

https://www.dualtron-uk.com/products/dualtron-storm-limited
The silent nature of these electric vehicles also makes them very popular with drug dealers.

nah, its submarines you need to be wary of with them pesky smugglers...
We all live in a yellow drug machine

i think ebikes are great. like anything, they have a purpose and are useful for many people.
what i think is not great, is cycling infrastructure in the UK.....this is no use for ANYONE in its current form and it makes me sad. very very sad.

 

[Imlach]

Lithium battery powered transport will always carry with it these risks, one reason why I am particularly sceptical of electric public transport, huge health hazard. If I owned an ebike I'd not want to store it inside, I'd probably store it in my nagging neighbours garage. Just in case.

 

[Mickeyspinn]

It probably took a few years for people to understand the risks of pumping gas whilst smoking a cigarette....in time people will learn how to respect lithium batteries.

 

[M_Chavez]

took a few years for people to understand the risks of pumping gas whilst smoking a cigarette...

Or just smoking a cigarette

 

[greencat]

Lithium battery powered transport will always carry with it these risks, one reason why I am particularly sceptical of electric public transport, huge health hazard. If I owned an ebike I'd not want to store it inside, I'd probably store it in my nagging neighbours garage. Just in case.

That's just what I do with my iPhone. Just to be sure.

I see the whole debate about ebikes as the same as those about Android v Apple, Windows v Mac. Just a good way to waste a lot of human (usually male tbh) brain power on stuff that doesn't matter.

 

[Mickeyspinn]

Lithium battery powered transport will always carry with it these risks, one reason why I am particularly sceptical of electric public transport, huge health hazard. If I owned an ebike I'd not want to store it inside, I'd probably store it in my nagging neighbours garage. Just in case.

Really all public transport is a health risk....I mean let's face it humans haven't actually learnt how to fly yet !

 

[Imlach]

It probably took a few years for people to understand the risks of pumping gas whilst smoking a cigarette....in time people will learn how to respect lithium batteries.

Properly manufactured, it is of course very safe, the problem is the nature of production due to high demand and societal reliance, there's a lot of corners being cut and a huge lack of quality control. And the problem is that when we are talking large mass forms of transport, like busses and trucks, trams etc being powered that way, they are essentially ticking bombs because lithium fires are some of the most reactive and hardest to smother. In smaller applications, I'm less wary.

 

[Imlach]

Really all public transport is a health risk....I mean let's face it humans haven't actually learnt how to fly yet !

Every night I take off from the local bump we call a hill. Flap flap flap flap, and I'm off to the forbidden lands to nick bike bits, bringing it across the great North Sea.

 

[Mickeyspinn]

Every night I take off from the local bump we call a hill. Flap flap flap flap, and I'm off to the forbidden lands to nick bike bits, bringing it across the great North Sea.

Then you sir are at the pinnacle of human evolution