Post #2205231

2026-05-03 21:04 UTC

I'm a cyclist and I'm against this. If they're effectively electric motorcycles then just license them as motorcycles, end of story. People are getting brain fog over the fact that they're cheap and popular with kids. We don't speed cap any other vehicles, we just license them appropriately. Let's just continue doing that. It's wacky to me that this isn't obvious to most people.

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@Blackout@fedia.io 2026-05-03 21:23

Seriously, if they don't require pedals to move it's a motorcycle or moped. I use an e-bike to commute but it doesn't work without the pedals. It's still a bike. If you want to tax me for it then give me my own damn lane

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@NateNate60@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 22:11

They're not the same as motorcycles though. They're *comparable* to motorcycles, but they are not quite the same. There's no reason to have a binary system. There is a class of bikes which are more than recreational e-bikes but less than full-on motorcycles. There needs to be a class of regulation in between bicycles and slow e-bikes (which should require no registration at all) and motorcycles (which require a special driving licence to operate). The fact that we don't "speed cap" any other vehicles isn't a good argument for not limiting the speed of e-bikes. All arguments for why ordinary personal vehicles *shouldn't* have speed governors limiting them to, say, 160 km/h, basically boil down to "It makes me feel bad" or "I think it's fun to drive fast".

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@fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2026-05-03 21:10

It's basically old people trying to take away kid's mobility.

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