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I love ebikes, but I agree further regulation is needed to limit the amount of power these bikes can have rather than just limiting speed like laws do right now
by slaymaker1907 5y ago
I love ebikes, but I agree further regulation is needed to limit the amount of power these bikes can have rather than just limiting speed like laws do right now. I have asthma and climbing big hills next to a bunch of cars (which happens a lot where I live due to lots of hills) is very difficult for me to do. It's because of this that I would use an ebike even if it were only able to carry me up said hills at 10mph (slow but still fast enough to be stable) while avoiding giving me an asthma attack.
- gnarcoregrizz 5y agoWe don't limit the amount of horsepower or top speed of cars and motorcycles. Limiting power and top speed is futile. You can actually enforce speed limits with radar, but checking power output requires testing it on a dyno, which can easily be cheated with a switch or remote. Half of ebikes for sale are technically street illegal anyway. Federal law limits them to 750w 28mph until pedal assisted... while some stick to this, they can do 2kw burst and cruise at 750w sustained. Some just flat out ignore it and pull 5-7kw off the shelf. Some conversions pull 15kw and do 80 mph. Here's a regular looking SCOOTER that does 75mph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-IqhezeZw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-IqhezeZw