Thread: What can the E-assist option bring for bicycle touring.
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Old 07-24-16, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by saddlesores
agree 100%! cogs and chains and pedals.......all are forms of assist!

if you're not riding a no-pedal wooden balance bike, you're not
on a REAL bicycle at all! you're cheating and must be banned
from all REAL bicycle forums.

back to reality....there's some good reading on e-bikes here:

http://ebike.research.pdx.edu/sites/..._America_2.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bicycle_laws
Pedal-assisted bicycles and the Law ? Electric Bike Action

check out the first link, top of page 7: organic transit ELF encapsulated pedal-assisted recumbent trike.
legally classified as a low-speed electric bicycle.
And that is why I even stated more than a few times that the N American laws for E-Bikes are way too lax and the EU definition is as far as even I am willing to go as to what should be considered a legal E-Assist bike... 350 watts or less and one MUST pedal it and no throttle and assist cuts out at 20MPH or less.
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