Under UK law, e-bike motors must cut out when a speed of 15.5mph is reached, but police are finding many have been modified to be much faster.

E-bike seizures surge as police find 'death trap' contraptions on the streets

Riders will be banned from abandoning e-bikes on busy town centre pavements in the borough under a new scheme. 

New measures to curb E-Bike chaos in Wandsworth

EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY JUNE 12 Undated family handout photo of Scott Peden from Cambridge, who lost his partner Gemma and their children Lilly, eight, and Oliver, four, during a fire caused by an e-bike battery bought online. Issue date: Tuesday June 11, 2024.
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Gemma Germeny, 31 and her two children Lilly, eight and Oliver, four, died in a fire caused by an e-bike battery bought online.

Grieving father calls for urgent crackdown after e-bike fire killed family

The company has hit out at Jersey's government, concluding it has "no interest" in using EVie bikes to help achieve the island's environment targets.

EVie permanently pulls electric bike fleet from Jersey

The company says they were given just 10 days to find replacement insurance but hasn't been successful yet. 

EVie suspends electric bikes due to lack of insurance provider

The 1,400 new e-bikes will increase the fleet from 600 to 2,000, and a new day pass will be introduced.

London to receive 1,400 new Santander Cycles e-bikes

A total of seven bikes have been seized from a property in St Albans Close, Gillingham.

Several stolen bikes seized by police

Ryan Everton, 32, died in hospital following a collision with a teenage boy who stepped out in front of his e-bike in 'tragic accident'.

Young dad suffered 'unsurvivable brain injury' in e-bike accident, inquest hears

Police are asking anyone who may have seen the bikes for sale online, or been approached by someone trying to sell them.

£100,000 worth of 'unique' custom-made bikes stolen - police appeal 

Bike retailers and the fire service on Guernsey have issued warnings about potential fires caused by e-bike batteries.

Officer to monitor exploding e-bike batteries appointed by Guernsey fire service

A total of 17 illegal e-bikes, which can reach speeds of 40mph, were seized on Friday 28 July, with many pictured belonging to fast food app delivery drivers.

Several e-bikes seized as police clamp down on riders in pedestrianised areas

Flowers left at the scene of a deadly house fire in Cambridge. Two children and a woman have died. credit ITV News Anglia

A health and safety charity has warned it is 'only a matter of time' before an unregulated e-bike claims more lives than the three people who died in Cambridge.

Warning of 'ticking time-bomb' e-bike fires after deadly blaze

Police say significant damage has been caused to the shop front, but that nothing is believed to have been taken at the current time.

Van smashes into bike shop front in early hours ram raid

The council said it received daily complaints about dockless bikes being abandoned on the pavement across the city. 

Hackers bypass software to get free ride and dump e-bikes in the street

Jersey's government is offering a second round of grants to get money off the cost of an e-bike, after 1,800+ people applied when the scheme ran in January.

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