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Electric bikes meeting the EAPC regulations can be ridden on the road without being taxed, licensed or insured.

What you need to do to ride a motorcycle, moped or motor tricycle - tests and training, minimum ages, vehicle requirements, new licence rules

• Overview

  To ride on public roads you first need to get a provisional licence and…

• Licences issued before 19 January 2013

  If you held a motorcycle or moped licence before 19 January 2013 then…

• Bike categories, ages and licence requirements

  Licence category Requirements for licence Minimum age Mopeds with speed…

To drive a road legal quad bike you must have it approved, registered, taxed and given an MOT if needed

Go through the Dartford tunnel or cross the Queen Elizabeth bridge with a bicycle.

Cycling and walking investment, grant funding, research and infrastructure case studies.

• Updated: 6 July 2022

When to book your motorcycle, moped or scooter tests, what to take with you, what happens during the tests, major and minor faults, and what happens if your test is cancelled

Find out where the public access rules have been relaxed so that you can ride a horse or cycle on an NNR in England.

• Updated: 2 December 2016

You can ride a rented electric scooter on public roads. Privately owned electric scooters can only be ridden on private land.

The UK Government has produced resources to raise awareness around the safe purchasing, use and charging of e-bikes and e-scooters.

• Updated: 8 December 2025

Latest statistics tables on walking and cycling, produced by the Department for Transport.

• Updated: 10 November 2012