I disagree. My eFatbike has 250W mid-drive motor and is limited to 15mph and thus is considered a bicycle by law. You can drive faster than that but it stops assisting you at 15mph. In my opinion anything faster than that doesn’t belong to the sidewalks and since you’re now driving in traffic you should be registered and insured.
I quite often see people zooming past pedestrians on sidewalks with their surrons and modified ebikes and these assholes are what’s going to ruin the fun for everyone else too. These are not bicycles - they’re light electric motorbikes.
your average cyclist can sprint to over 30 mph without much trouble
Sprint yeah but unlike ebikes they can’t maintain that speed. I can basically keep up with roadbikers despite my ridicilously fat 4.8" mushy tires. They gain distance on flat and downhill and I catch them in uphill.
15 mph = 24 km/h. Going that fast on a sidewalk seems wild to me (the only bicyles there are children accompanied by their parents on foot), but I guess it’s because we have reasonable bicycle infrastructure instead of stroads where you need a deathwish to cycle
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I disagree. My eFatbike has 250W mid-drive motor and is limited to 15mph and thus is considered a bicycle by law. You can drive faster than that but it stops assisting you at 15mph. In my opinion anything faster than that doesn’t belong to the sidewalks and since you’re now driving in traffic you should be registered and insured.
I quite often see people zooming past pedestrians on sidewalks with their surrons and modified ebikes and these assholes are what’s going to ruin the fun for everyone else too. These are not bicycles - they’re light electric motorbikes.
Sprint yeah but unlike ebikes they can’t maintain that speed. I can basically keep up with roadbikers despite my ridicilously fat 4.8" mushy tires. They gain distance on flat and downhill and I catch them in uphill.
15 mph = 24 km/h. Going that fast on a sidewalk seems wild to me (the only bicyles there are children accompanied by their parents on foot), but I guess it’s because we have reasonable bicycle infrastructure instead of stroads where you need a deathwish to cycle