illegally modifying electric bikes - Singapore

[sk8norcal]

personally, I think repeat offenders should be caned.. (edit: need to go to grammar school)

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1162418/1/.html

Fewer people caught illegally modifying electric bikes this year

SINGAPORE: The number of people caught for illegally modifying their electric bicycles has gone down by more than 10 per cent to 264 for the first four months of the year, compared to the same period last year.

But there are still some who get caught repeatedly, like William Ong, who has been caught three times in five months for riding an illegally modified bicycle.

Mr Ong had paid some S$1,000 for an electric bicycle which had been approved by authorities, but he was slapped with a S$500 fine for adding a button that powers up the bike automatically.

Mr Ong said he knew it was illegal, but added the modification allowed him to ride uphill with ease, because he has leg problems.

He was fined S$300 the first two times when he borrowed his friend's illegally modified bike to ride.

Mr Ong said the modifications were done by someone at a bicycle shop, who had warned him that it is illegal to do so. When our news team visited the store, the shopkeeper denied having done so.

In a reply to Channel NewsAsia, the Land Transport Authority said merchants who illegally modify electric bicycles may be fined up to S$500. Repeat offenders may be charged in court.

 

[AussieJester]

personally, I think repeat offenders should be canned..

canned?!?! hanged mate!! sheesh...

KiM

 

[Joseph C.]

Glad I don't live there.

 

[ohzee]

Glad I don't live there.

 

[John in CR]

Singapore can be pretty strict. I think you mean caned, not put in a can.

 

[dogman dan]

Canned? Man thats extreme. Mabe just roasted or made into jerky. Ohhhhhhhh! you mean caned. That's different.

Be funny watching them try to catch a ES "modified" ebike. Like GC in DC or Hyena for example. You'd have to ride as skillfully to even keep him in sight! :lol: Where'd he go?

 

[liveforphysics]

That really makes me want to take an Ebike vacation to Singapore.

I will give them something to worry about.

 

[Drunkskunk]

We need to show some Solidarity for our Singapore brothers. How about a Critical Mass type event with all of us taking to the streets of Singapore at 50mph or more? maybe throw some pedels at the athorities as we pass

 

[Sunder]

How are they detecting the illegal modifications?

 

[Philistine]

Be funny watching them try to catch a ES "modified" ebike. Like GC in DC or Hyena for example. You'd have to ride as skillfully to even keep him in sight! Where'd he go?

They would just shoot you in Singapore.

I once had Singapore airport security guards chase me with MP5s pointed at me onto a Qantas flight during a stopover. Luckily I was in business class so the Qantas attendants stood by me and wouldn't let them take me off the plane. They don't have much of a sense of humour those Singaporeans. I won't be going back anytime soon.....

 

[AussieJester]

I once had Singapore airport security guards chase me with MP5s pointed at me onto a Qantas flight during a stopover. Luckily I was in business class so the Qantas attendants stood by me and wouldn't let them take me off the plane. They don't have much of a sense of humour those Singaporeans. I won't be going back anytime soon.....

So true, whats a little weed between friends right? shit... least the Qantarse staff
helped a stoner in trouble LoL

KiM

 

[MadRhino]

They don't have much of a sense of humour those Singaporeans. I won't be going back anytime soon.....

I'm laugh choking, only imagining what you said (or did) to them, to test their sense of humour and make them chase you.

Let me guess.. Dit it happen in the mens room.

 

[Philistine]

They mistook my failure to answer their questions as insolance and disdain, when in fact I had drunk so much on the first leg of the flight, and then in the transit lounge, that I had lost the power of speech. The Qantas staff regretted their standing up for me later, when I managed to test even the limits of business class hospitality. It culminated in them confiscating my duty free Chivas which I was caught sculling when they weren't looking. I woke up in Germany (my ultimate destination) with what appeared to be meat pie all down my shirt, but let's just say they don't serve meatpie on Qantas.....

The police in Frieberg, Germany, on the other hand are a very professional courteous outfit. The night of my flight landing they found me sleeping on the pathway (I was at the time on tour with my band "AssHammer"), and despite my ridiculous urging that I didn't know where I was staying as "my manager takes care of those things" (we didn't even have a manager), they kindly drove me around until I recognised the hotel I was staying at. I emerged from the paddy wagon and into the hotel lobby, who were about as pleased as the Singaporean guards were to see me.

Suffice to say that if AssHammer ever reforms we would gladly play Germany again, but Singapore will be avoided at all cost.

 

[Sunder]

That had me cracking up! It just made my day. Thanks for that.

 

[Arlo1]

That really makes me want to take an Ebike vacation to Singapore.

I will give them something to worry about.

Yup they just need to make them fast enough the cops have no chance lol.

 

[neptronix]

This guy could have bought a crystalyte 5xxx for $500 and outran the cops i bet..

 

[LI-ghtcycle]

personally, I think repeat offenders should be caned.. (edit: need to go to grammar school)

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1162418/1/.html

Fewer people caught illegally modifying electric bikes this year

SINGAPORE: The number of people caught for illegally modifying their electric bicycles has gone down by more than 10 per cent to 264 for the first four months of the year, compared to the same period last year.

But there are still some who get caught repeatedly, like William Ong, who has been caught three times in five months for riding an illegally modified bicycle.

Mr Ong had paid some S$1,000 for an electric bicycle which had been approved by authorities, but he was slapped with a S$500 fine for adding a button that powers up the bike automatically.

Mr Ong said he knew it was illegal, but added the modification allowed him to ride uphill with ease, because he has leg problems.

He was fined S$300 the first two times when he borrowed his friend's illegally modified bike to ride.

Mr Ong said the modifications were done by someone at a bicycle shop, who had warned him that it is illegal to do so. When our news team visited the store, the shopkeeper denied having done so.

In a reply to Channel NewsAsia, the Land Transport Authority said merchants who illegally modify electric bicycles may be fined up to S$500. Repeat offenders may be charged in court.

Wow, he's a really BAD, BAD man :lol: , he put an unapproved button on his E-Bike!! Let make sure we lock people up for that too!!

I would gladly join in a otherwise legal E-Bike parade (and a few that weren't) with "illegal" button that allows a handicapped man ride a bike!!

Now THAT is a country with it's priorities straight! Kind of like the USA locking up anyone who dares to use "too much" weed, like being drunk on alcohol is so much less a problem, but that's a good drug right??! :? :lol: :lol:

 

[Lessss]

Forget canning do what the Christian English do, pitchcap him. Almost as popular as pope Benedict encouraged Kenyan witch burnings.

 

[zombiess]

Singapore is a great place to live from everything I've heard, but they have some really ridiculous laws. Like this guy getting busted for a button on his ebike.

I'm just don't understand the worldwide backlash against ebikes. They are such an efficient means of transport for short commutes, can safely run at 30mph, don't pollute like all the scooters and governments hate them. They hate the solution to many of the problems they themselves complain about in addition to the people they are supposed to represent. I just don't get it. Look at the sissies (gov, not citizens) in Europe and Oz. Such pathetic limits like 250W. Might as well just strap a gas leaf blower to the bike and point it backwards. Totally retarded.

Many of these nations also operate under the guise of saying they support being green which is a total crock of shit. Hong Kong for example has a program to recycle batteries, all types except lead acid which they won't accept. You know what you have to do with a dead lead acid battery in Hong Kong, throw it in the regular garbage! Every other ad on TV there is about recycling, being green etc, but when it comes down to it, it's all a dog an pony show. I myself and a local HK resident who works for our company did some research on how to dispose of lead acid batteries. It's a huge process, lots of gov paper work to register as a toxic waste producer and then you have to pay some exorbitant amount to get rid of them. When I say exorbitant my research showed that paying $50USD for a lead acid would cost something like $200 to dispose of properly!!! Totally insane and very very sad. Even people I know who don't care much about the environment were pissed at this situation because they know how bad these batteries are.

 

[dogman dan]

A lot of the world seems to be terrified of the thought of people going even 20 mph on bicycle brakes. Yet the brakes on a scooter that goes 50 mph might be much worse in reality. It's like " have your ebike, but don't go any faster than a fat man pedaling"

 

[ohzee]

Id like more detail's on how that group got it's name and what it took to get into said group.

haha thanks for the laugh.