This. I love my Cervelo eBike. I'm 61 and after multiple surgeries the 350 watt motor is just enough to help me get over the hills I couldn't get over any more.
But every day I'm seeing more and more "ebikes" that look like good-old-fashioned dirt bikes.
by porkchop_d_clown
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A good first step – anything with a throttle should not be classified as an e-bike.
That’s because they are e-motos no matter how hard r/ebikes pretends they aren’t.
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People have lost all common sense. It should be obvious what’s an ebike and what’s an emoto.
You aren’t wrong. I’m seeing the same thing in my area especially among teens and preteens.
The only noticeable risk brought on by electric bicycles is the increase risk from being able to use a bicycle for more journeys across the week and year as a whole for a wider range of people.
Isn’t the issue here mostly that laws are not enforced? I don’t see why a 250W motor with a 25km/h limit would make a vehicle inherently dangerous compared to a purely muscle powered vehicle.
Of course if you illegally unlock them and then ride them at 50km/h on narrow paths and ignore various other road laws it becomes a safety hazard.
E-bikes and E-motorcycles are the same.
If you cut the power lines from the battery to the motor and the only way to get home is to call someone with a truck or a long, heavy, slow push home, it’s a motorcycle. “But, but, it’s electric!” So’s a frigging Tesla, still an automobile
I have no problems with pedal assist. As an environmentalist, I am all for anything thst gets people out of cars.. but let’s call bikes that are not pedal assist what they really are: mopeds.
The 1800% increase is 2018-2023.
Would you say there are 20x more ebikes being ridden now vs then? 1800% sounds like a huge increase, but really isn’t when you think about how ebikes exploded in popularity during covid.
This is completely separate from the “ebike vs e-moped” debate that the comment section wants to have.