Go peds - illegal in le mans?

[M3MTH]

Me & a mate looking at buying one of those petrol go peds each, can you get fined for riding them on the road etc?

[sniff petrol]

M3MTH said:

Me & a mate looking at buying one of those petrol go peds each, can you get fined for riding them on the road etc?

Possibly, but think the Police have better things to do during LM week.

[here]

Yea France is not the UK, were here the police will go out of there way to shaft its citizens doing minor stuff while disregarding the serious stuff. Like crime

[GaryHetherington]

think it's been talked about on here a few times before but yes they are definitely illegal! i got pulled over by a policeman last year and asked to stop riding it but no fine or anything. most of the time the police are too busy (read lazy) to do anything about them.

[tara911]

I hope not...

I'll be on a ped this year!

[E36GUY]

I'd imagine you're ok with them on the roads inside the circuit like from Beusejour up to Houx for example but I don't think it'd be a good idea to go to Arnage on them for example.

[Stig]

Just to say, that I've seen some pretty horrific injuries from Go-Peds at previous Le Mans. Scooting around at 30mph is a great laugh (especially pissed) in shorts and a t-shirt.... until you inevitably fall off.

Then you resemble an uncooked burger

[//j17]

E36GUY said:

I'd imagine you're ok with them on the roads inside the circuit like from Beusejour up to Houx for example but I don't think it'd be a good idea to go to Arnage on them for example.

What...you mean on the public road between Beusejour and Houx (Chemin aux Boeufs to give it it's road name)...?

I've seen police stopping Mini Motos, etc here in previous years - nothing funnier than seeing someone push a Mini Moto ~1 mile (followed by Le Plod in a car). Great for the back I'm guessing.

[TonyHetherington]

E36GUY said:

I don't think it'd be a good idea to go to Arnage on them for example.

It's one of the reasons we take them; getting to arnage (from Expo) is a bloomin' long way. On Go-Peds it makes the journey so much nicer.

Also, every morning, a quick goped into town to a bakery for fresh croissants to put your burger in. Perfect

Oh, and what bro (above) didn't tell you was that the policemen also clocked him on his go ped with his speed gun

Oh, AND....if you have a dwarf on a go ped, you can get away with anything.....

Us on the Mulsanne on the Friday night...

[rude-boy]

Stig said:

Just to say, that I've seen some pretty horrific injuries from Go-Peds at previous Le Mans. Scooting around at 30mph is a great laugh (especially pissed) in shorts and a t-shirt.... until you inevitably fall off.

Then you resemble an uncooked burger

What he said. It is very tempting and I did take an electric one one year but they rappidly become more trouble than they are worth IMO.

[sniff petrol]

TonyHetherington said:

Oh, AND....if you have a dwarf on a go ped, you can get away with anything.....

Us on the Mulsanne on the Friday night...

Reckon a dwarf on a minimoto would be a better comination: Le Plod would think it was a normal size bike and rider a long way away