Tampered electric bicycles clock triple the legal speed, police warn

Electric bicycles modified to exceed the legal speed limit are increasingly being detected on the roads, according to police reports on Monday.

Concerns have been raised over electric bicycles that appear compliant at the point of sale but are later altered to travel at speeds far beyond the 25km/hr limit set by law.

Vehicles exceeding those limits are not permitted to circulate as bicycles.

Importers have said many of the bicycles are legally imported and sold with speed restrictions locked into their systems.