null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
The limits on e-bikes are intended to protect the rider from a catastrophic failure of the bike.
Bike frames just aren’t designed to be strong enough to withstand the forces endured by heavier vehicles like motorbikes.
It’s trivial to put an unlimited e-bike kit on a regular bike and zip around at 60km/h but there’s a real can / should question that needs to be ignored.
If you want to go faster than an e-bike get a proper vehicle.
This was quite obviously not intended as a real-life project considering that an exoskeletton strong enough to actually be of help would be way more expensive than a faster vehicle.
Of course you can put an unlimited e-bike kit on there but that would be illegal. Putting the motors onto your legs would be legal. That was the whole joke.
Sure ok. Whoosh. Silly me. What a hilarious joke. I’m in stitches.
lol, ragging on an OP in showerthoughts.
Fine job!
Remind me to remove you from our stand-up comedy roster on Friday nights.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Only… the speed limit of an e-bike is lower than the speed a normal bike can go when, for example, the wind is at your back, so that’s bollocks.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
If you think a bike frame is as strong as a motorbike frame then I cant help you.
cynar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s more the power that can be applied. Most people capable of getting a pedal bike up to those speeds also know how to read the road for safety. Even then, bikes can basically disintegrate in a (initially) minor accident.
A powered bike is capable of destroying itself if misused.