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E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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What we have called “motorcycles” should actually be called “enginecycles”. Also, the engine on enginecycles is a four-cycle engine.

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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I've seen photos of something like this. The one I saw was UK police I think.

This might work in high traffic areas but where I am there just isn't enough people on bikes to set up something like this.

If the po-po stop a kid on a bike they believe is illegally modified, just confiscate and impound it where it can be assessed.

No one cares if a bike can propel you 3km/h over the limit because you changed the tyre diameter. Even if you updated the software to remove the limiter, that's not really going to make much difference to safety if I'm honest. It's the bikes with throttles and big hub motors that spin you up to 20 or 30km/h over the limit that are the problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yup, agreed. I'm out in the sticks too, years back I tried to commute the 17 or so miles each way on a gravel bike with a conversion but keeping legal with a 250w motor it just didn't do anything as there was no stop:starting and I was generally travelling at over the 15.5mph limit so just carrying extra weight.

    Not sure why I mention as it's a use case error on my part but I do wish I'd got a meatier motor, derestricted it and taken my chances.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Yeah I have a big heavy cannondale cargowagen.

    It's a long tail, so both my kids can sit on the back. System weight is probably 150kg with all three of us on board. By the time we wind up to 25km/h the torque provided by the motor is pretty minimal honestly.

    It's comfortable at 40km/h on a downhill slope.

    I would've already figured out how to remove the limiter if I thought it would be helpful but... I just don't really think it would make much difference.

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