Being 66 years old, I wanted footpegs for the convience and comfort when going from station to station on a sporting clay course. I wanted to leave the pedals as orig just incase something fails and I need to pedal it back to the car. As far as what someone thinks whether this is still a bicycle or even an ebike doesn't really matter. I use it for transportation on a 1.2 mile long sporting clay course. A hundred years ago it would have been called a horse