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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: JackGow on June 06, 2020, 12:18:35 AM
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Good evening!
I was hoping for help, my name is Jack from hull and I'm literally being given an while from a friend pretty much brand spanker but I can't find any info on them anywhere really and what licencing etc I'd need to ride it!
So what I do have is that it's a kingday ferra and he's mentioned it's unregistered? If anyone has one or knows of them can you let me know? I'm looking at speeds charge time again licencing and Rego etc?
Cheers!
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That's going to be rather hard to get registered for the road, you might be able to get it done as a moped as it's under 4kW but I'm not sure if they need to have pedals that are able to drive the bike. Check out Andy Kirby's videos for an idea of the effort involved in doing it (it will need inspection by the MVSA), I think he linked the documents detailing all the requirements in the description of one of the vids. For licensing you'll either need a driving licence from before 2001 or you'll need to do a CBT course (about £100) and have L plates on the bike.
https://www.youtube.com/user/andykdubs/videos
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Thanks for the link man! I will check it out once the babies are asleep! Been doing abit of reading up myself and getting shit of mixed signals from what I've read elsewhere
https://www.gov.uk/electric-bike-rules
Here's the link
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Your bike would come under "Other kinds of electric bike" and so would need to be type approved. Clicking on that brings you to this page which may give you some more info, you can also click on the MVSA link for more info on that.
https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-approval
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Thank you! Lastly would you know where to get insurance quotes for this bike as I'm struggling here?
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I think Andy mentions who he went with in one of his videos, you might not be able to get any quotes without getting it registered first though.
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Gonna sit and have look through the videos now! Good news is it's already registered!
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Well that's some surprising but good news, saves you a lot of hassle. Does it already have things like indicators, tail and head light (without a headlight you can just get a day time MOT), number plate mount, road legal tyres? Mirrors aren't a legal requirement but a good idea to have.
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So it's an electric motorbike is the best way of describing it, comes with all safety features i.e lights mirrors indicators alarm etc, I'll attach some pics, I haven't rode it yet, but apparently limited to 30mph, do you know of anyways to modify e bikes at all?
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If it's limited to 30mph then I would imagine it's registered as a moped then, the technical class being L1E. If you have a pre-2001 licence I would just keep it as that and ride it as is. If you have a newer licence (or none at all) and will need to take a CBT then you might be able to derestrict it and get it registered as an A1 class bike (same as a 125cc) although I don't think it will go all that much faster with the power it has, might hit 40mph if you're lucky. You could go the route of replacing the controller (might need to do that to derestrict it anyway) and putting more power through the motor and maybe replace the battery (it should currently have lead acid batteries so swapping to lithium would be quite an improvement and drop some weight).