I'm not trans and keen to understand how this impacts a trans person.
My. Immediate thought was it's intentionally leaving out the part that says you'll be issued with a replacement so won't stop you from driving so no biggie right?
However, that's diminishing the cruelty of it - it's about the emotional trauma from a government forcing you to officially identify as something you've fought your whole life not to be.
No, I mean ebikes. I made no reference to fat bikes. An ebike is legally allowed on the roads of most of Europe (this includes fat bikes) providing they meet certain criteria. That includes speed and power restrictions. Where they exceed those that are illegal and the authorities are making efforts to impound them.
Yup, agreed. I'm out in the sticks too, years back I tried to commute the 17 or so miles each way on a gravel bike with a conversion but keeping legal with a 250w motor it just didn't do anything as there was no stop:starting and I was generally travelling at over the 15.5mph limit so just carrying extra weight.
Not sure why I mention as it's a use case error on my part but I do wish I'd got a meatier motor, derestricted it and taken my chances.
I'm at the uncool end of that trend in the UK. I dumped my car 4yrs back and got an electric vespa-shaped vehicle. I already had my full bike licence which helped make it an easy decision but even in our weather really enjoyable and nsanely cheap motoring
My bro in Berlin mentioned that infrequently the police will see up a rolling road device to stop ebikes, electric scooters etc (anything that by law is speed restricted).
They do it on a one way road where you can't see them, with police at the top end to stop anyone that's clearly seen and turned around to avoid it
You're right but the word "moped" has lost meaning in most countries.
Here in the UK I suspect the majority of people asked wouldn't appreciate it originally had pedals and would point to a vespa image if asked.
I have an electric vespa-shaped vehicle (goes about 80kmh) that as you can see i really struggle to name as "electric scooter" most people think of one of those stand on things so I've landed on calling it an "electric moped". It works as equally in no way can someone accuse me of trying to make it sound cool :)
Mullvad really does sound like the only option if you're 100% committed to this.
I'm using Proton as i hear it comes a close 2nd, is alot cheaper and what I'm hiding isn't massively sensitive