Quote Originally Posted by mikmas View Post
The level of legal restrictions applied to pedal cycles and electrical vehicles is staggeringly minimal compared to that of larger road vehicles (cars, vans, trucks, etc) and what little there is is barely enforced, if at all, by comparison.
Pavement use by such vehicles is not even remotely policed despite the clear dangers and the accidents that occur on a regular basis ... including fatalities such as the one linked to.
What modders do to cars is irrelevant and doesn't excuse latitude in other cases.
Exactly.

I've lost count of the number of times I have almost been mown down by badly ridden bikes in Cambridge. They are on the pavements, riding the wrong way on one way streets, ignoring traffic lights and going too fast to stop safely. It's like a Velodrome.