It has been widely reported that British TV celebrity Simon Cowell broke his back after falling off an ‘e-bike’. He underwent six hours of surgery to insert a metal rod into his spine and is now, thankfully, up and walking again.
The mainstream media predictably produced many articles related to the ‘dangers of e-bikes’ or similar themes.
BUT, note the term e-bike in the first paragraph is in quote-unquote marks, as the machine in question was not what the e-bike industry and most legal systems would regard as an e-bike, or a legal one anyway. It was in fact a Swind EB-01 from UK-based Swind. This £16,500 (US$21,600) machine has ‘a 15kW
electric motor, delivering speeds of over 60mph (100km/h) and 80 miles (130km) of range’ according to Swind’s website.
Read the full post about the accident here!
