On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> From GreenCarReports: > > > http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1084757_nyc-bans-electric-bikes-again-launches-bike-sharing-system > > The law covers any electric bicycle that has a throttle, possibly > exempting pedal assist bikes. If so, that would be much more reasonable. > From my perspective, an ebike with a throttle is a scooter or moped. I believe the intent of the federal law was to treat any vehicle with a performance and use envelope similar to that of a bicycle as a bicycle. Hence the 20 mph limit. Makes perfect sense to me, but it seems laws and sense only go together by random coincidence. Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150711/8a7e4f69/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
