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I want to see everyone on a ebike that can get on one if they want to including disabled, obese people, weak people, elderly people etc and if that means more wattage and a twist and go throttle so be it. Ebikes should be available for all we have a health and environmental crisis happening.
They are already available to all, with optional higher wattages and twist and go throttles, and have been for many years. All are within the L1e-A and L1e-B classes, and they are e-bikes, but they are NOT pedelecs (EAPCs). Pedelecs are not e-bikes.
I don't know how long I will have to keep pointing this out to members, but you are all attacking the wrong target, trying to alter the EAPC rules WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE AND WILL REMAIN SO.
What should be aimed for is reducing the bureacracy and requirements for the L1e-A and L1e-B classes of two and three wheeled motor vehicles.
That is a possibility since we have some easement already in place historically. For example, anyone who passed their car driving test before 1st February 2001 can ride them on their car licence, no CBT, no separate m/c driving test. They can even hop onto a moped and ride it off without any other encumbrance. And various easements already exist in some other European countries.
You won't get LIe-A and B treated like EAPCs with almost no rules all in one go, but since our government, like all others in the western world, is keen on getting everyone onto two wheels, you do have their sympathetic ear, so some change is possible.
But stop banging heads against a wall trying to do the impossible of changing EAPC rules to allow bureaucracy free motor vehicle speeds, powers, throttles etc., because they aren't listening and won't listen.
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