This tuber's good on bikes and here he shows how the only ones buying motorcycles these days are people of a pensionable age trying to recapture their youth.
More than that though it's the transport of choice for a criminal under-class that, minus crash-helmet and all else, use it as the ideal tool to support endemic theft and shop-lifting that few governments have the will or means to counter.
The problem only really arose because few people ever thought an electric motor might power illegal e-bikes to 70 m.p.h. as some have done in the capital.
My own first motive means is inset: the fabulous engine-in-wheel Honda P50 that would only achieve 30 m.p.h downhill.
But the sound it's motor made ~ and that of the exhaust once I replaced it with a length of copper piping ~ I can hear to this day.
It would be usurped by the fore-runner of such e-bikes, the motorcycles with pedals as an afterthought that were the Honda SS50 and Yamaha FS1E.
My Geography syllabus at university included demographics, and it turned out that during the late 1970s there was a peak ~ a blip ~ in fatalities worldwide coinciding with the age of sixteen, or that at which most people were first allowed to ride such machines.
People who chose the P50 went on to live to sixty-six and beyond, however.
