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High-powered and fast e-bikes and e-scooters are repeatedly used to facilitate acquisitive crime and anti-social behaviour. They are now the main criminal vehicle for mobile phone thefts and luxury watch thefts. Indeed, the Met has created an interceptor taskforce, using fast and lightweight electric bikes—specifically, off-road models called Sur-Ron, which can accelerate from zero to 50 in three seconds. I would not like to be on a bike that can do that, but the Met has them in order to combat phone snatching and robberies, aiming to outpace the criminals who use similar fast bikes.