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Mark Sutton

Mark Sutton

Mark Sutton is the Founding/Managing Editor of Cycling Electric, a UK e-bike publication he co-founded with Dennis Publishing in 2020.

Sep 28, 2026

47:37
Cycling Electric, your website.
47:40
And there's a few brands like it, but that's quite a prominent one.
47:43
And the reasoning being is, yes, they do sell the road legal stuff, but they also are known or do sell non-road legal things.
47:53
And any brand that does that we don't work with simply because we don't want to be referring what we hope is legitimate traffic through our site to a place where they could then be misled.
48:03
So that's why we refuse to work with brands like
48:25
And what kind of tricks are we seeing like manufacturers doing or sort of post manufacturer kind of tweaks that make a bike noncompliant?
48:34
Well lately I'm seeing kits that come packaged with the option to very quickly switch between compliance and non-compliance.
48:42
It surprised me actually to come here today and to find more complete manufactured bikes confiscated than conversion kits which is interesting out here because on the street out here it feels a bit more balanced of what they're paying attention to but the things that they've seized and clearly tested there seems to be these angry brands and there's certainly a few others i think something now the bike industry perhaps needs to do is start compiling a database of products that are known to to be confiscated to be illegal once we can compile that sort of information list it would give the police certainly more information to to make their life easier yeah

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