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[Closed] Will eBikes evolve into light motorcycles/mopeds?

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It’ll come even quicker the first time an irresponsible rider takes out and seriously injures or kills a pedestrian with one

What speedy legislation changes were their when the brakeless fixie muppet killed that women in London last year ?

None.

Why would Illegally altered ebikes be any different.


 
Posted : 26/06/2018 11:55 am
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I can't help but think that the first time I try an ebike I'll just think 'why didn't I do this years ago!!' Good job I can't afford one 😂


 
Posted : 26/06/2018 11:57 am
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<span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Why do jet skiers have to ride right on the edge of the safe swim area?</span>

So the honeys can see their massive bawbaggs swinging in the wind.

<span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Awesome, Thanks to this thread I’ve learnt that kayakers and windsurfers are massive sausages</span>

Imagine being any other water user. I was down in Devon a few weeks back for a sailing race which turned out to be a bit of a tactical drift at times.  So you've got 50 sailing boats, trying to conserve momentum, and two monumental douchebags tearing up and down the harbour making waves stopping the boats dead. Not to mention the noise pollution spoiling the day for everyone within earshot.

It would be like going to a mountain bike event, and finding someone turned up with a YZ250 2t and was determined to ride around the course the wrong way.

Jet-skiers are the nicest people on earth, said no one ever.  They're a very close second to wakeboarders in the "you're a f****** douchebag running the area for everyone" stakes.


 
Posted : 26/06/2018 12:32 pm
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Technically they are mopeds

so they are.  I didn't realise scooters and mopeds were different things. (thought there were two categories of scooter and moped was just å historic colloquial term).  They are mopeds in the original sense of the word.


 
Posted : 26/06/2018 2:52 pm
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simons_nicolai-uk - They are mopeds in the original sense of the word.

The word moped was coined by the Swedish journalist Harald Nielsen in 1952, as a portmanteau of the Swedish words "motor" and "pedaler". The claimed derivation from the term motor-velocipede< is incorrect. According to Douglas Harper, the Swedish terms originated from "tramp cykelmed motor och pedaler", which means "pedal cycle with engine and pedals"

nup wrong again. a motor isn't an engine. 😆


 
Posted : 26/06/2018 6:50 pm
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What speedy legislation changes were their when the brakeless fixie muppet killed that women in London last year ?

None , because none were needed.  It is already illegal to ride with 1 brake (rightly or wrongly)


 
Posted : 26/06/2018 7:01 pm
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nup wrong again. a motor isn’t an engine.

Even in Swedish?


 
Posted : 26/06/2018 8:00 pm
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well in respect to "They are mopeds in the original sense of the word.", yes. unless you can point to the battery and motor driven ebikes kicking about in 1952?


 
Posted : 26/06/2018 8:30 pm
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