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“Everyone knows a fatbike is very different to an e-bike,” she said. “The tyres are wider, the bikes are heavier and you don’t need to pedal to move forward, so they are more like a moped than a bike.” Selectively ignoring the words of the traffic police chief posted above. Again, sure, go ahead and argue with the police.

Well, this is it isn’t it? this does see to be an ongoing problem since oooh I’m gonna say 2016. For some reason governments playing to a populist right wing media without foundations in reality, all in the hope of a supportive headline that will never come

I happen to think jury trials are a good idea and the government should be spending efforts making them more efficient and bringing them to court more quickly. However, criminal barristers have a huge conflict of self interest in lengthy delayed jury trials and I've not seen any of them mention that when they argue against these new proposals.

Surely it is the responsibility of the highways authority (not sure about Amsterdam but over here it'd mostly be the local council) to manage any issues within transportation? That's literally their job to look at problems, issues etc and deal with them. That could include: buses not running on time too many cars growing use of e-motorbikes / fatbikes / e-mopeds overcrowding at a station etc A few years ago, there were very few e-motorbikes and as they came along the legislation hasn't really kept up so a blind eye might have been turned to them using cycle lanes but now there are a lot more of them, they're faster than regular bikes and e-bikes and maybe the law needs changing a bit to recognise that? That's not a "problem". It's a highways authority doing what they're paid to do. Same way as over here people are finally realising that there are simply too many cars and they might need to do something (or some things) to discourage car use a bit. Again, not really a "problem", it's just an evolution of local needs in conjunction with some regional / national strategic oversight. And yes, fatbikes are not e-bikes. Same with those delivery riders around here, they're not e-bikes. They're illegally modified / illegally used electric motorbikes, or electric mopeds It's really quite an important distinction. Normal legal e-bikes (25kph, pedal operated etc) are classed in law as bicycles. Electric mopeds / motorbikes, any form of bicycle with a throttle is classed as a motorbike. That's the law, regardless of what you want to believe or what the lazier elements of the media print.

Surely there should be people below David Lammy's level briefing him on stuff like this?

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@first mate you must remember that only a cyclist's view of how other cyclists behave is allowed...unless it's coming from a cyclist who doesn't turn a blind eye to bad cycling! 😉 @Raeburn are you claiming that is what I said - a reminder of what I said below. At the end of the day @Raeburn is entitled to their opinion but it doesn't make mine wrong (as much as they try to project that). Maybe @Raeburnhas been visiting regularly and is basing their opinion on those visits. But what undermines their narrative and massively supports mine is that Amsterdam authorities are actively trying to police problem cycles and cyclists (in the face of rising injuries and accidents caused to and by cyclists) and no amount of protestations that a "fatbike isn't a bike but a moped" is going to change that.

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This might help, sue https://thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/abolishing-trial-by-jury-why-is-the-government-overlooking-the-obvious/

Is this a reply to my question to Vladi? Could you be more specific about your reasons for saying it's "stupid" and "backwards", instead of making vague generalisations?

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Because this is a really stupid, backwards idea, and you don't need to be a barrister or lawyer to understand why. It's just a token move, to make himself and his department relevant, which will improve precisely nothing.

Why do you think he is incompetent?

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That's good to hear!

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