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

Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t remember pedaling my eBike, either. With a big enough motor, they’re all but completely vestigal.

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    eBikes require pedaling. I don’t know what you had, but it wasn’t an eBike.

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    • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends on the juridictions. Some countries make it mandatory pedaling (mine does), other don’t.

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    • Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      eBikes requiring pedaling is mostly just a software limitation - not a hardware one. I can’t quite see how it stops being an eBike after you disable this limitation.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      not exactly, a bunch of those Chinese DUI scooters have pedals, but they don’t do anything.

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      • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        DUI?

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  • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s true that there are different classes of ebikes. Class 3 ebikes with enough power can be basically motorcycles disguised as bikes. Mine is a class 1 and very much a bicycle. If the distinction can be made that some ebikes do not require pedaling and are therefore motorcycles, by extension it is equally valid to say that ALL ebikes must have pedals so all ebikes are bikes. The truth is really somewhere in-between. Not sure how important that is to a shower thought though.

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• Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Try pumping the clutch shift and rear brake. It’ll probably do something. Not sure what.

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• pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can we use the same logic for motorscooters?

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