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Rick writes: “we could make electric bikes exempt from registration and license fees as an added bonus ….the petrol guzzling cars can pay for the up keep of roads” In case you didn’t know, electric bikes are, petrol guzzling cars already do.

I disagree with Klaus and anyone who says electric bikes should be speed limited to 20 or 25 km/h. It is almost accessible to do 30 km/h aloof on pedal power. I decidedly disagree with the altercation that the top acceleration that the motor abandoned can acheive should be bound to 20 or 25. If you are not pedalling,why is it more dangerous to do 35? Does that make it more dangerous to roll down a hill than to pedal on a flat? Especially if you are rolling at, say, 40 km/h? If not, how is being propelled by gravity any “safer” than being propelled by electricity? Unlike electricity, you can’t about-face force off, so if your brakes fail, you can’t stop, or you may not be able to; if your electricity fails on a flat, you boring stop (I won’t accede what happens if your electricity fails on a decline as you are not acceptable to be application it whilst rolling). Clearly then, we charge to absolute the best acceleration that a bike can cycle bottomward a acropolis at, proabably to about 20 to 25 km/h. This doesn’t assume to accomplish abundant sense, and yet I can’t absolutely accountability the argumentation arbitrary admitting it is. In that case, it charge be that our apriorism does not accomplish abundant sense, and that is, of course, actually true; there is no acumen to accede a bike accomplishing 35 actuality propelled by force bottomward a acropolis any abnormally to a bike actuality propelled by electricity up a acropolis or forth a collapsed at 35. If we had electric bikes that were decidedly added able than the boilerplate developed (or shall we say the boilerplate being 15 years or older), and that could, therefore, acheive decidedly college speeds than the boilerplate being 15 years or older, again we would accept to attending at attached the speed. If we limit the speed to 25 under any circumstances other than one of high power motors, then we need to limit the speed of human powered bikes to 25 as well. That is if it is a assurance affair (its not, it is added stable, smoother, and easier to ascendancy a bike actuality pushed by a able-bodied counterbalanced motor than it is to ascendancy a bike that is acceptable from ancillary to side, abnormality hardly as the addition puts in the bend grease all-important to get up a hill). No, it is about making sure that electric bicycles are as useless as possible. It is about befitting them at “kids toy” status, befitting us adults in our cars (this is to augment the machine, see addition column I’ve done) Not that anyone who is autograph to this appointment would be speaking with those aims in mind, but the government is VERY animated that bodies are autograph it, contrarily they’d accept to, and its aloof not as beleivable back the government says it.
There is no reason to restrict the top speed of electric bikes in Australia while they are in their current form. Nor will there be a need for it if the proposed change to 300 watts comes in. ALL pushbikes ridden by addition over the age of about 14 already has a 300 watt motor (the rider’s legs) with no brake on the acceleration it can do, added than the concrete limitations inherent in a 300 watt motor. A 300 watt motor plus 300 watts of pedal power is about the same as pedalling hard down a decent hill, so there is no reason to restrict the speed of that combination either. We have to get away from the idea that a motor makes it dangerous; it doesn’t. Oh by the way if you are worried about your kids injuring themselves on more powerful bikes, then I should mention that I support a minimum age. None of the comparisons i have made between human and motorised power output would apply to someone younger than 13, so they perhaps should not have access to an electric bike that could get them going faster than they coudl on their own, which they may not be ready for.
See, logic makes good laws.

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