Anna Semlyen Anna Semlyen relies on the bike for transport since a collision involving a driver broke her leg 30 years ago.
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A York cyclist’s e-bike was vandalised by suspected thieves, believed to have been hoping to steal the wheel and rear-hub motor, leaving the mobility vehicle in a dangerous condition.
Anna Semlyen, a campaign manager for the 20’s Plenty UK speed limit campaign told road.cc how the bike was locked in the city centre when the damage occurred, the offender or offenders removing bolts from the disc brake rotor, leaving her rear brake unusable.
"They’ve removed six bolts holding the disc on and they’ve actually removed the big nut holding the axle on the frame," her mechanic explained. "Dangerous. No back brake and your wheel is not fixed in properly."
Asked by Anna if they could have killed her on her bike, he replied: "Yeah, potentially… clearly [criminal damage]." Anna Semlyen Speaking to YorkMix (link is external) about the incident, Anna said she was riding around questioning why her brakes weren’t working very well.
"These parts are very cheap. They are six different bolts that attach your disc brakes to the back of the bike, and then as a single bolt that attaches the the bike frame into the back wheel hub," she said. "So I don’t know why they would bother to take them off my bike."Why are you attacking a bike that is labelled a disability vehicle? It’s completely appalling and nasty behaviour to the point of […]
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