06-09-2018, 09:08 AM
(06-09-2018, 09:00 AM)clasher Wrote: The government kind of dropped the ball when they didn’t regulate electric mopeds the way they regulate gasoline mopeds. The vehicles are similar weights and accelerate in a similar way. An e-assst bike is a lot different but since they’re all legally e-bikes in Ontario that’s probably why they are disallowed at these events.
OK, so I have an e-bike with a throttle (not a pedelec). It could be a pedelec if I had built it that way, but I didn't. It looks like a bike, not a moped, though. (Since I built it from a normal bike).
Regulating this sector is somewhat hard. Even the Dutch may not have gotten it completely right. Their regulation dates from before e-bikes were a thing, and so they have high-speed mopeds (no bike trails, helmets required) and low-speed mopeds (no helmets required, bike trails OK). Low-speed mopeds were basically anticipating e-bikes, but e-bikes weren't a thing back then. These days, low-speed mopeds are regular mopeds with a speed limiter, which is often disabled. (But the police have to try the moped to see whether there is a speed limiter).