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FOI 18902-25 - Illegally Adapted E Bikes

Request:

Please may I request information relating to illegally modified battery-powered pedal cycles (e-bikes):

- 1. Can you please provide details of the number of illegally modified e-bikes seized by police over the last three years (stats for 2023, 2024 and 2025 so far)

- 2. Can you please identify the highest speed (in mph) the force has ever recorded for a person riding an illegally modified e-bike.

- 3. Can you please provide details of where/when (on which road) the highest speed was recorded

- 4. The age of the rider who recorded the highest speed

Response:

Search for all occurrences that include the words 'E-BIKE', 'E BIKE', 'ELECTRIC-BIKE', 'ELECTRIC BIKE' 'MODIFIED' and 'ADAPTED' within the MO text, manually reviewed for any that relate to seizure of illegally modified e-bikes between 2023 and 2nd October 2025.

As with any keyword search, the search will only return exact matches within the Incident Description or Crime MO. This does not account for differences in terminology and/or spelling used. Keyword searches are problematic and in no way provide accurate results or figures. If the selected key words have not been mentioned, the data will not be returned.

Question 1:
2023 – 0
2024 – 0
2025 – 1

Questions 2, 3 and 4:

Searches were conducted within Northamptonshire Police to locate the information and I can now confirm that Northamptonshire Police does not hold any information relating to your request.

The numerical data presented in this response is an unaudited snapshot of unpublished data sourced from "live" systems and is subject to the interpretation of the original request by the individual extracting the data.

Northamptonshire Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the production of statistical information for Freedom of Information responses.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when the data is used.

If you decide to write an article/use the enclosed data, we ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.