Re: e-bikes are low powered motorcycles, not bicycles

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 22:07:17 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 4/21/2024 4:09 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:

 
A motor doesn’t make it a motor bike other than the very narrows of
definitions.

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From a pure logic standpoint, I think that statement is precisely
backwards. A bike with a motor is quite obviously a motor bike. The
manufacturers lobbied legislatures very heavily to carve a very narrow
exception into the laws, for legal and sales purposes.
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Which is not to say I totally condemn eBikes. There are legitimate uses
for them, and I suspect many of us will someday require them. But they
are problematic in several ways.
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I definitely think the upper speed for power assist is far too high in
the U.S. I think eBikes should give no assist above 12 mph.

I rhink I agree with Krygowski's last point, but no, I'll never have
one.