Electric scooters rules in France?

[wsn03]

Quick question if anyone might know - do the French treat stand on electric scooters like bicycles or mopeds? Trying to work out if drink/ driving applies on one on the back roads during Le Mans.
Ive got a 6 mile round trip to do on the Saturday night- could use a manual one if needs be

[wsn03]

Got the info i needed. Manual push scooter it is!

[wsn03]

//j17 said:

I'd have thought they were classed as motor vehicles. Certainly mini-motos are so need to be registered/licensed/insured for use on the road - leading to the amusing site of a man bent double pushing a mini-moto back to his campsite while the le plod who had stopped him crawled along behind him in a car to make sure he didn't just jump back on as soon as out of sight I saw at Le Mans a number of years back.

Thanks for that, sounds like the view ive heard. Thats a funny story!!
Im on the back roads around Mulsanne, no cars but lots of plod monitoring things, and keeping my road one way. I need to come back against the one-way system drunk...no problem on a push scooter

[wsn03]

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Edited by wsn03 on Wednesday 24th January 17:24

[wsn03]

Thanks to Google maps ive found some sneaky tracks through the forest that drop the route to under 2 miles each way. Tried a push scooter, even at only 10mph thats less than 15 minutes...no problem.

Ive walked those roads on 2 different years, never saw a single car, but did come across a lot of police.
Push scooter will take up less space in the car too.

[wsn03]

Nigel_O said:

10mph on a push-scooter along a forest track, in the middle of the night, while pi$$ed

Let us know how it goes....

Will do. It'll be fine...not like there's anything solid to hit. I did say without lights right? Should be fine...oh wait a minute...ha!

Survived far more crazy things than jogging pace on a push scooter on a track with no cars

Edited by wsn03 on Sunday 4th February 18:36