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Hallo Zusammen, ich möchte mich kurz vorstellen. Mein Name ist Florian und fahre seit ca. 1,5 Jahren ein Ninebot Z10 in der Umgebung von Lippstadt / NRW. Ich benutze es nur zum Spass und nicht in der Öffentlichkeit. Ab und zu fahre ich bei Ingress damit ein paar abgelegenere Portale an. Spielt noch jemand Ingress? LG - Florian

Hey guys, This Easter (09/04-13-04) I'm planning to go visit lake Garda in Italy (known for having one of the prettiest bike lanes in the world) I'm picking up the interrail pass from Denmark and I wonder if there's any other nice cities to ride between Italy, Austria and Germany Got any suggestions? Would you like to join? Thanks in advance Cheers ✌️

Black day for EUCs in Germany Last week, the Bundesrat (German Federal Council) put forward an amendment to the recent e-mobility directive of the Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur (German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure) requesting to drop special regulations that would exempt (and thereby legalize) EUCs in the new directive. This new motion essentially implies that all PLEV vehicles without steering wheel/handlebars won't get insurance and will (continue to) be forbidden on German public grounds since EUCs by default they are considered standard motorized automobile vehicles like your BMW or Mercedes which German legislators' intellectual horizon naturally requires to have a proper steering wheel/handlebar. Otherwise automobile vehicles surely cannot be considered safe (or at least safe enough to kill hundreds of people every year). So, from now on every cop from will just have to look for a handlebar in order to assess a vehicle's legal status in Germany which means that EUCs and e-skateboards will be even more easily identified and hunted down. Here is the relevant passage (in German): "Der Bundesrat stellt fest, dass die 2018 veröffentlichte Untersuchung der Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen zu Elektrokleinstfahrzeugen die Empfehlung enthält, nur Elektrokleinstfahrzeuge mit Haltegriff beziehungsweise Lenker für den öffentlichen Straßenverkehr zuzulassen, um ein Mindestniveau für die Sicherheit herzustellen. Die Überlegungen der Bundesregierung, Elektrokleinstfahrzeuge ohne Lenk- oder Haltestange über eine Ausnahmeverordnung im öffentlichen Straßenraum für mindestens zwei bis drei Jahre zu testen, werden vom Bundesrat daher abgelehnt." This literally spells the end of EUCs in Germany for at least another decade. Yesterday at a small e-mobility fair in Lower Saxony I talked to some bureaucrats about this. The only sense I could make from their statements is that while keeping the public in the dark German politicians so heavily depend on the automobile industry and its jobs that they actively and effectively discourage impede any alternative e-mobility strategies that would only even remotely appear to divert the smallest funds away from the automobile industry. ... and all this with Dieselgate still unfolding - WTF

Next week we gona do the first demonstration ride here in Berlin Germany for the legalisation of PLEVs and EUCs in our country. After a discusion with the ministry it goes 10km through the middle of Berlin guided by the police and afterwards we will end up in a hall ride where we celebrate together and wheeling indors, like in a roller disco. Every personal light electric vehicle and roller dancers are invited. Date is the 13.12.18, 12 o'clock BMVI Invalidenstr. 44 10115 Berlin Who is in Berlin in this time or want to come and join the freedom ride?