Originally Posted by
unterhausen
I'm late to this, but I would like to discourage discussion of electric mopeds like that in this subforum. Endless sphere is full of posts about electric mopeds*, which are only going to cause problems for people with class 1,2,3 ebikes.
*I believe it is technically an electric moped in any state that has laws about ebikes, and not the pejorative label that people like to give to real ebikes.
I don't know what "Endless sphere" is, but if qualification for ebike vs e-moped are blurred and problems are caused due to confusion between the two;
then discussions should be encouraged to educate more people about the difference between ebikes vs e-mopeds, especially on public forums.
I've seen ebikes since 1994 when I first started working at bike shops;
home-built, conversions of mt. bikes with power tool batteries to turn into ebikes or e-mopeds;
built by folks who lost their driver's license and had to commute on their bikes.
If folks are using these lower cost ($2K), high powered ebikes for everyday transportation,
does that really upset the class 1, 2, 3 ebike folks that need $400 car rack just to transport their ebikes to ride them?