• LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I understand, but quads and ebikes are quite different. They’re much smaller and aren’t gas powered, far less force. They can be modified to go up to like 30 miles an hour, but normally cap out around 15.

    If mopeds and cheap quads like that can be driven and easily bought by children, ebikes are a form of harm reduction.

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      There’s a lot of “ebikes” that are just electric dirtbikes with vestigial pedals. It’s easy to modify them to put out way more power than they’re sold with, too. There has to be some kind of grappling with this new category of things that can pretend to be a bicycle but still spin tires, rip past 30mph, etc. They need to either be hard limited or treated more like motorcycles than bicycles.