It's not even the same
It is illegal.It's not even the same
Ride a 25mph ebike carefully, with full lights, that looks like a normal bike and show due care and consideration to pedestrians and other road users and you'll pass under the radar undetected. However, ride a 15mph ebike like a cock, cutting up cars and buzzing pedestrians and you'll give all ebikers a bad name.
See the difference? It's called personal responsibility - something some people on here seem happy to sign over to the government.
But this isn't a 25mph Ebike. It's a 40mph Ebike.It's not even the same
Oh and by the way, I have a knife just like that that's always strapped to my belt when I go camping and I don't have any bother.
There is one way the two scenarios are linked though. Act like a dick and make a scene and you'll have problems. Act responsibly, be careful and cautious and no one will bat an eyelid.
Ride a 25mph ebike carefully, with full lights, that looks like a normal bike and show due care and consideration to pedestrians and other road users and you'll pass under the radar undetected. However, ride a 15mph ebike like a cock, cutting up cars and buzzing pedestrians and you'll give all ebikers a bad name.
See the difference? It's called personal responsibility - something some people on here seem happy to sign over to the government.
You don't have to ride it at @ 40mph you know.
But there are times when I've had it @ 140mph in a safe and controlled manner The fact that the bike can reach speeds of 40mph, does not mean one would venture to ride so fast. The Bugatti Veyron can reach speeds of 258mph, but no normal person would consider driving those speed on the public highways, but they are street legal cars. All the dangers that have been mentioned are not faults of the higher powered bike but of the irresponsibility of the rider, and would be just as dangerous on a limited bike. I find a lot of these WHAT IF scernarios are just as applicable to nonpowered, limited, and highpowered bikes equally.
OK, so the conclusion we have come to is that the thing is entirely pointless. It can do over 40mph, but not a single one of us would ever do that.You don't have to ride it at @ 40mph you know.
Just like I don't have to drive my Cosworth at 150mph
Why, when it could get help some elderly or disabled riders to get up a steep hills at a speed of 15.5.mph with little or no effort at all, Yes?
Lost you there.
If you have a bike that goes 40mph then it has the power to climb hills etc. Its not all about the speed but the POWER !!
Yeah, but unless I misunderstood, the Ebay auction and much of this thread is about the speed.
Not necessarily, for a given power it's the opposite. The old Torq 1 and the Quando had identical electrics throughout. The motor in the Torq was in a 700c (28") wheel and it powered to 22 mph but with poor hill climbing as a result. The identical motor in the Quando was in a 20" wheel, powered just to 16 mph but is the best legal hill climber bar none.
I'd certainly use it @ 40mph (well ok not that one ebcause as you've pointed out I'd want a better bike if I was doing that speed - some kind of beefed up full on DH racer than can take that kind of abuse) but I wouldn't do so weaving between the pedestrians on Blackpool prom on a Bank Holiday afternoon (my own bike is capable of 25mph but I don't go above about 15mph in such circumstances and I give everyone a VERY wide berth even at those speeds) - as with everything there is a time and a place.
Thats based on the 250w motor with all its limitation, so do u think this bike with 2x 1500w motors. 96 volts battery power could go up a 1/8 hill power only at 15mph+ anyone ?
