Originally Posted by
MikeyMK
There are some stuck-up bigots on here. I've quickly learnt to work around them, they won't change.
What someone interprets as a bicycle or not does not matter. The law matters. Most E-bikes are legally in the same category and status, as a bicycle. The bikes are specifically engineered to fit the legal criteria.
That is all.
Yes, but laws can be wrong, and laws can be changed. The trend I'm concerned with is that the powered bikes are getting bigger and heavier, so putting them in the same category as bicycles is getting more and more problematic.
And you should probably be told that stating "x is the law" to a mostly American readership is perhaps not the best idea because there are 50+ very different jurisdictions over here with laws that differ significantly, and that doesn't even include the thousands of localities with their own ordinances. I'm pretty comfortable assuming you haven't systematically gone through all of those before telling us what the law is.