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d_sem on March 3, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new ...

Your anecdote mistakes electric motorcycles with e-bikes. In the USA, there are three legal classes of ebikes; with the fastest class having max legal speed of 28mph.

Scubabear68 on March 3, 2023 [–]

TBH the proliferation of “motorized things on wheels” seemed to happen over night and I have no idea what the classifications are.

d_sem on March 3, 2023 | [–]

Ok, but its an important distinction to be aware of when interpreting safety statistics. Advocates of ebike adoption are not talking about motorcycles.

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