Originally Posted by
Trakhak
Given that the obesity epidemic must have physicians telling millions of older patients that, no kidding, you've got to do some regular exercise if you want to outlast green bananas, my bet is that those patients will embrace not the spirit but the letter of the advice - and will head straight for the throttle bikes. We'll probably see very few pedal assist bikes being sold a couple of years from now.
I hear complaints (from the ebike owners) that several states are rewriting the classifications of ebikes instead of just using the manufacturer classes. What may fall out of all of it is, throttle ebikes may be classed as mopeds and might end up required to be registered (depending on state.)