FireFiend

Those Fleet bikes are Emoto's. They don't have pedals at all. They would be classified as an motorbike or electric motorcycle vs If it had pedals you can pedal / cycle yourself on your own power or assisted by Electric power being Electric Bicycles. Lets hope they get clarity on the Ebike and Faster ebikes. The normal ebikes generally cruise around the 15km to 20km per hour. then the higher end ebikes that have 750w or 1000w motors can do around 30km to 45km per hour. but again... in specific conditions. If you are 120kg in weight and going uphill... your also going to ride at around 10-15km per hour if it's a 15 to 20degree incline. It should be thought of similar to like a car. Your car could possibly do 200km per hour and some even 250km per hour. It's not to say your going to drive at those speeds... nor that all cars are equal and can actually reach the 200km per hour. If they say 45km per hour. it would mean your ebike must be able to reach those speeds quick and constant .. even on uphill is my guess (average) Even the 500w or 750w ebike takes some time to get to 25km per hour... nevermind 45km.

So whats the latest ? Does this mean that they want us to register Ebikes and license them, get a license plate number like a motorbike? Also get a Drivers license for Riding an Ebike ? Guess that would entail Learners and a License Passing out as Ebike rider? (or would it be falling part of Code 8 like a Car license). If they say you need a Motorbike learners and License, that does not make sense since an Pedal bike is not a Motorbike. (even in US they got it as Ebike and Emoto) To me it seems a bit silly in the sense that no ebike i know of has a chassis number or Engine VIN numberor registration number . Now you going to have to fit a license plate to it ? What about rear signal indicators or what about Front indicators... or what about the headlight quality (normally ebikes have a headlight of some sort but still , i'm not sure is there a certain spec it must be. )There's so many things that would be relevant if it needs to be registered and policed. Then does that mean also you must ride in middle of the Lanes then? since it's no longer a bicycle it's a motor vehicle or motorbike. So imagine having even on our residential roads and there's ebike doing 30-32km per hour ebike holding up a 60km per hour mid road cruise. Remember some ebike are designed to go faster than 45km but.... it doesn't mean they can ride at that speed. if the rider is say 120kg or 130kg... and going uphill. You might even be cruising at 20km per hour uphill. I think they are not thinking this whole thing through properly. I can understand if it's one of those 3000w power ebikes that can do 100km per hour with ease. but majority of the Ebike are 500w , 750w and 1000w with very few going above 1200w. Yes the 750w and 1000w might be capable of doing more than 45km per hour but that is flat terrain , ideal weather and with a rider that is 70-80kg in weight. Any thoughts are welcome. If anyone has more info as to what and how this will work. Please share.