Originally Posted by
stokell
Those fake 'scooters' should be banned. It will happen by 2009 in Ontario. They are slow, dangerous and are being sold as bicycles when they plainly are not.
If you want to do an electric scooter then call it a scooter not a bicycle, license it and insure it and give it the speed to keep up with other scooters.
It's not an ebike!
Actually legally it is an ebike and since alot of ebikers rarely use the pedals, what is the difference? other than people like your self being elitist.
They can be had cheap and can be a reliable form of transport with good storage and comfort, I actually have something similar and it rarely gets used due to the fact i like to pedal BUT it is handy when I am ill or injured and I will be interested in how they can ban these and not ebikes as mine has fully functional pedal that are used on steep hills.
Your aggitating for a ban could end up affecting general ebiking big time, you may cause the registration and licencing of all ebikes or just a total ban.
Mine is a few years old with 2 or 3 thousand k's on it and no issues.
I ride it as a bike and have never had a problem with traffic or cyclists.