Drive Sport Rider Wide Boy
Drive Sport Rider Wide Boy - Too Wide For Class 3/Pavements
This is the first of three illegal so-called mobility scooters being sold at what would be taken to be a mobility shop where you can part with your money, in this case £3,995 secondhand, and ride away on the pavement or road, for that's what the shop advert says you can do "4mph pavement and 8mph (max) road". No, you would only be able to do that, plus all the other Class 3 regulations, if it were less than 850mm wide, and this is 1194mm wide. The only place that this might be used is on the road. You can not use it on any "pavements, or any other pedestrian areas, nor cycle tracks or cycle lanes. If you do drive it on the road, in addition to other requirements, you would need a valid driving licence, and register it with DVLA.". see the rules at the foot of the page.
Scooterpac Invader
Scooterpac Invader - Too Fast For Class 3/Pavements
This is the second so-called mobility scooters being sold at what would be taken to be a mobility shop where you can part with your money, in this case £4,995 secondhand. They do say "Forget regular pavements and roads", though they do mean because it can handle rougher surfaces, but in fact "Forget any , or any other pedestrian areas, nor cycle tracks or cycle lanes", that's because it's advertised as capable of 16mph, and the legal limit for a Class 3 mobility scooter, which this was advertised as, is 8mph. It is completely irrelevant that it may have switches to reduce the speed to 4mph and 8mph, the legislated maximum speed of which a mobility scooter is capable of, is 8mph. If you do drive it on the road, in addition to other requirements, you would need a valid driving licence, and register it with DVLA.
Drive Sport Rider Tandem
Drive Sport Rider Tandem - Too Many For Class 3/Pavements
This is the third so-called mobility scooters being sold as Class 3, which isn't. and this is even more useless as it can't even be used as described on the road. Mobility scooters, Class 2, 3, or not in a class, can only be used by one person at a time. This was being sold as a Class 3 mobility scooter "to ride with your friend or family member", no, this could only be ridden on private land with the owner's permission.
Mini Crosser - Always A Class 3 Mobility Scooter?
Mini Crosser - Sometimes Too Heavy For Class 3?
Having bought a Mini Crosser secondhand on Ebay (that subsequently broke down - my 4th breakdown with a Mini Crosser) I got it weighed on my local weighbridge as I was going to have to register it with the DVLA . If it was to be Class 3 it was going to have to be under 150kg, so I believed, it came in at a whopping 180kg! Elite Mobility in Bristol, who originally sold it, said that because it has an Ergo 2 seat, to which you can attach medical devices, it is permitted to weigh 200kg. This may be correct and fit with EU Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices where it says "medical device’ means any instrument, apparatus, appliance, software, material or other article, whether used alone or in combination". Be that as it may if you go for a standard four wheeled Mini Crosser with the smallest battery and the lightest seat, it would seem that it still weighs in at over the permitted 150kg. So I think that Mini Crosser in its basic form may be amongst the mobility scooters that are sold as Class 3, but which don't always comply. Anyone using a mobility scooter, or powerchair is obliged to check that they conform to relevant legislation.
