• quips@slrpnk.net
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    10 hours ago

    Perhaps you live in a car dependent area and e bikes are the first viable non car mode of transport in your area and so you are seeing those growing pains of introducing a new mode of transportation for the first time in its history.

    Ebikes should not need a license, the bikes themselves need regulation so they are safe without one.

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      5 hours ago

      Ebikes should not need a license, the bikes themselves need regulation so they are safe without one.

      Agreed. What in my country are class I and II bikes should not need a license. The regulation you speak of should “regulate” class III bikes as something other than an “e-bike”, and require license/registration/insurance. We already do this with hypothetical class IV bikes; a motorcycles.