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Old 09-17-19 | 06:04 AM
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
"IMPORTANT NOTE: These bikes are shipped road legal limited to 20mph and 750 watt to make them legal in most states, a 5 minute modification requiring a simple screw driver will take all limits off the bike to make it a full 5200 watts and illegal for road use in all 50 states"
Not entirely unreasonable given that the intended use of these ought to be off road use in appropriate settings like an appropriate closed course. The scary thing is that in actuality they will be more often misused than used properly. In addition to the irresponsible adult riders, I can imagine city kids with no proper place to ride them and no supervision whatsoever being just turned loose on them. Really no different than gasoline powered dirt bikes in many ways though and at least probably better environmentally and least not obnoxiously noisy.

Also as far as I saw, there were no pedals and no claim to be an ebike so we won't see them legally on the national park trails, again unless I missed something. If there is some reference to pedals or a claim that they are ebikes using the e assisted bike definition please point out my error. I didn't read everything or follow all of the links.
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