What we have called “motorcycles” should actually be called “enginecycles”. Also, the engine on enginecycles is a four-cycle engine.
What we have called “motorcycles” should actually be called “enginecycles”. Also, the engine on enginecycles is a four-cycle engine.
This is the correct take.
My feeling is that if it’s controlled by a throttle, then it’s a motorbike and it should be registered and require a driver’s licence to operate, and it shouldn’t be on bike paths or footpaths.
My country has this legislation and my electric scooter is technically illegal sure to it. As you control the throttle with your thumb.
Now they make really uncomfortable scooters that only power of you move your leg past a sensor as then it would be ‘kick assist’. Also those scooters cost the times the amount of regular scooters that are legal in most of Europe.
It’s s terribly bad legislation. Speed should be the main differentiator.