Reading about the recent scooter fines and board confiscations in London got me wondering, what would it take to or if it’s even possible to make a typical electric skateboard road legal in the UK.
Before I go down a rabbit hole this weekend finding this information I thought I’d ask here first to see if anyone has already done this research.
This thread has a few comments about current situation in the UK. I try to avoid police whenever I can, which isn’t too hard since there’s so little where I live.
Having read through some of the information available it really isn’t possible. Under the current rules I would need to get an IVA and that has entire sections on things like ‘interior fittings’ and ‘seat belts’, you need to have approved ‘tyres’ and so on. Essentially the problem is with the power our boards are capable of outputting and because they have 4 wheels as far as the law is concerned you are a small passenger vehicle, at which point you have to comply with the regulations for vehicles ‘with no more than 8 seats’.
If you don’t have an MTB it’s not too bad, just start kicking the moment to you see anything suspicious. You can leave the throttle on a little in your pocket so it’s not actually much effort to kick
yep. i remember reading when they banned the hoverboards a while back, one of the things that stuck out was the gov’s dislike of anything self balancing or where the user has to balance without additional support, like a handle.
Just watched the BBC program Click (season 11 episode 42) and it was discussing the legality of esk8 in the UK. It was funny to see the likes of Unik and Enertion on the BBC
So I know I am bringing up a really old topic but wasn’t just thinking and saw an article that electric vehicles like escooters and esk8s could be on their way to becoming legal in the uk