Comment on E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles.

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I just wanna get this straight. OP posited that e-bikes are motorcycles. Your argument is they are not motorcycles because your local ordinances prohibit them.

      JFC

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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