So reading this, ebikes need to have a M license now?
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Ebike require motorcycle licensing?
- Thread starter Noretern
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There is really no legit reason (other than out and out laziness) for the fake scooter/motorcycle versions to be license free. For about the same price you can buy an e-bike bicycle with the same range and you can actually pedal the damn thing...
Ban the welfare hogs I say!
Ban the welfare hogs I say!
I rode a mountain bike in the winter when I was in college. I would have been thrilled if I had an insurance free ebike back then.
Ebikes are the signature ride of 'welfare bums' but I'm sure they are a blessing to lots of working poor folk struggling to make ends meet.
I'd be all for licencing these things if reasonable insurance rates would be available, but I don't believe insurance companies will be inclined to make it affordable
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Ebikes are the signature ride of 'welfare bums' but I'm sure they are a blessing to lots of working poor folk struggling to make ends meet.
I'd be all for licencing these things if reasonable insurance rates would be available, but I don't believe insurance companies will be inclined to make it affordable
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Well especially if you have a whole crowd of DUI veterans coming to them. It's gonna paint a picture for that pool of users.
Because they are a menace on the road, riding like a motorcyclist and riding like a bicyclist and switching back and forth as they go, going slow blocking lanes, then riding on the sidewalks.... I also think you got the words vigilant and vigilante mixed up, as they keep making these things look more and more like legit motorcycles we get lumped in with them and cagers are more likely to become vigilantes against the motorized two wheel crowd.
In the end the law was really for motor assist bikes, they have to have pedals. Most of the fake scooter motorcycle ones have pedals but they are all but useless. True e-bicycles are about the same price and can be pedalled like a bicycle. No need for these things to exist.
We are all really just mad we pay through the nose for insurance and can't lane split like they can lol.
And as you're ready to do the moto wave to them, you realize they make no sound. Then you see in your rear view mirror the "ebike" plate
Reasonable and insurance don't belong in the same sentence here. With medical insurance being the most expensive part of the insurance premium don't expect the rates to be cheap.
A simple start to the process would be the requirement for an operators card not unlike the one for boating. Basically a test where the operator recognizes the laws governing their vehicle.
Keep off sidewalks
Can't ride if you have a suspension for DUI etc
Can't go where it says "No motorized vehicles"
No two up
Performance mods = major fines
and a few more I can't think of at the moment
Trials
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If you were charged with DUI they won't let you ride a moped, I worked with a girl who tried that, they caught up to her within weeks, there was even snow on the ground and she was riding it to work. They basically try to ruin your life as much as possible once you get a DUI charge, they really don't need us pressing for more laws then already exist.
... by the way she lost her job too.
... by the way she lost her job too.
TK4
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The laws have to be enforced AS WRITTEN. That isn't happening with the DUIs on the e-bikes. I saw a clown yesterday riding along St. Clair, no helmet with a two-four on the platform between his feet.
If I had a short enough commute I’d sure as hell buy one. Why bother getting sweaty before work?
So long as I’d feel comfortable parking it and could make the distance both ways (last job was 80km return) I’d get one. But too far and highway all the way. And frankly the 401 doesn’t do much faster than 50-60 during rush hour anyway.
So long as I’d feel comfortable parking it and could make the distance both ways (last job was 80km return) I’d get one. But too far and highway all the way. And frankly the 401 doesn’t do much faster than 50-60 during rush hour anyway.
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