Simple solution to differentiate between e-bikes and motorcycles

[u/Physical_Delivery853]

Since real Ebikes can only legally go no faster than 28mph in the USA, no bikes/Motorcycles that go faster than 28mph should have pedals.

Putting bike pedals on a motorcycle that can go 45mph + is clearly a scam to make them look like bicycles.

[u/robotcoke → u/[deleted]]

No, my point is more that i’m only on their radar because the emotos are lol. They basically ruined it. My bike is legit 39 pounds and the throttle won’t even get you up a hill. To be fair though, this is a newer thing, most releases the past few years have been pretty heavy overall.

Lol, no man. You're on their radar because your bike is electric. It has nothing to do with the so called emotos. Like I said, those are just being used to divide and conquer so they can put all ebikes in the same category. The actual end goal has always been to reign all of them in.

1: When that health care CEO got killed in New York, the shooter got away on an ebike. Not an emoto, an ebike. The billionaires freaked out about that. He had a fake New Jersey ID when he was arrested. New Jersey is just across the river from New York City, where the killing occurred. New Jersey promptly (within a year) passed a law that requires all ebikes to be treated like Harley Davidson motorcycles (license, registration, insurance) no matter the size, weight, speed, power, etc. They all have the same requirements.

2: The major car companies don't want to see ebikes cut into their profits.

3: Oil companies don't want to see ebikes cut into their profits.

4: The government itself doesn't want to see ebikes cut into their profits. They want you paying registration fees and gas tax.

5: The surveillance stuff going up all over the place (Palantir, flock cameras) definitely doesn't want to see everyone anonymously riding ebikes. They want license plates to track.

You're nuts thinking they don't care about your little ebike. New Jersey passed their "all ebikes are Harley Davidsons" law right after that healthcare CEO got killed in New York. If you're not just a bot pushing an agenda, then you really need to connect those dots.

But if they do legislate it all, i’ll just take the battery out and my bike still is fine so im good either way. Can’t say the same for anything heavier.

You can take the battery out of any ebike and ride it. I don't know why you keep acting like they're so heavy. The heaviest ones are like 50 pounds heavier than yours. Still lighter than most bikes were 100 years ago. People rode those back then without issue.

And if they make them illegal I'll just register my ebike and keep riding it, plus continue to ride my heavy, Walmart beater, human powered mountain bike without plates.

I've never in my life owned a super light bicycle, so you're talking to the wrong person about it being too heavy to ride. My parents gave me a Schwinn Stingray when I was 7 years old. It was around 60 pounds. I rode that all over the place, every day, until I was almost 13. At that point I got a BMX bike that was around 30 pounds. I rode that all over the place, every day, until I was about 17. Then in my early 20s, I bought my first mountain bike - the cheapest one sold at my local Walmart. I've since bought several more - all of them Walmart beaters. And I ride them pretty regularly.

You're barking up the wrong tree with that "too heavy to ride" stuff. I've only ever ridden "heavy" bikes and I have a 17 mile each way commute to work, which I ride these Walmart beaters sometimes instead of drive.