Comment on E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The difference is in power and control. Ebikes are power capped, and pedel assist are ones that only turn on the motor when you are pedaling. Throttle control ebikes are capped even more than pedal assist, but I think they should be banned because of jailbreaking and it puts you in the mental state of operating a machine rather than pedaling a bike.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You can buy e-bikes on amazon that weigh more and travel faster than a Honda Cub, a registerable motorcycle. They’re in Grom territory. This idea, at least in the US market, that they’re fitting into the two classes of safe e-bike is disproven with 30 seconds of observation in any city or adjacent suburb. The only riders pedaling are the leisure riders in parks.
Fortnine has two videos on the topic, one of the 60mph e-bike and one of converting a Cub to EV, making it faster than stock.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No, I’m talking about non-registerable electric bicycles with pedals as intended by the post. I’m not talking about highway-legal electric motorcycles like Zero. Yes, you can buy illegal vehicles. People do. The laws are not enforced in the US. So if a law bans highway-speed bicycles but no one is around to enforce it and users continually break this unenforced law, then the distinction about the safe versions of e-bikes being woefully slower than regulated motorcycles is moot. The actual e-bike user base has demonstrable overlap with highway-legal motorcycles.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So back to my first point:
Yes you can buy illegal things and break the law. Like really?
JFC.