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E bikes are such a legal grey area. Personally I think some of them should be categorized as a motorcycle. Some of em really rip!
by nightowl_games 2y ago
E bikes are such a legal grey area. Personally I think some of them should be categorized as a motorcycle. Some of em really rip!
- jamal-kumar 2y agoOh yeah I have a friend who modded his to go faster and he says he's going faster than the cops driving the speed limit while going down a certain hill on a highway and he's in the bike lane and they can't do shit about it but watch him zip by
- nightowl_games 2y agoI bet they can do something about it.
- gitaarik 2y agoThey should be limited to give assistance up to 25 kph, but many are illegally modified. It is a problem though, so they are working on new regulations for that.
- tim333 2y agoIn the UK up to 15.5 mph counts as a bicycle, faster is supposed to categorise as a motorcycle. Though people of course ignore that, the the police sometimes try to stop them: https://news.sky.com/story/e-bike-seizures-surge-as-police-take-death-traps-off-the-streets-13220763 https://news.sky.com/story/e-bike-seizures-surge-as-police-t... The other bad issue is battery fires - quite a few deaths there.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoWhat is your goal of categorising it differently tho?
- nightowl_games 2y agoRequiring the rider to get a special license, force them to ride on the road and not on paths. If you want a motorcycle, then it should be regulated as a motorcycle.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoWhat does licence going to achieve? In UK you are already required to ride on road. What if I wanna ride slow on pedestrian paths and fast on roads? All of this regulation is just gonna force people into cars.