An e-bike rider involved in a fatal collision with a pedestrian has been banned from driving and fined as a judge hit out at cyclists “tearing around at frightening speed” in London on illegally-modified bikes.
Henry Morgan, 61, was riding a bike which had been fitted with a throttle to reach speeds of up to 27mph when he collided with a man in his 60s on Uxbridge Road in Shepherd's Bush on February 28 last year. Legally, e-bike motors must cut out when a speed of 15.5mph is reached.
