Acoustic vs Electric bikes.

[fossyant]

The term 'acoustic' needs dropping or I'll call ebikes lazy person bikes.

 

[Drago]

How about prehistoric and futuristic bikes?

Or manly and effeminate bikes?

Or, and hear me out, here's an idea - bikes and ebikes!

 

[taximan]

I bet you number the folk on here who haven’t pushed one on the fingers of one hand.😉

I've pushed one many a time and still do if the occasion warrant's it.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

How about prehistoric and futuristic bikes?

Or manly and effeminate bikes?

Or, and hear me out, here's an idea - bikes and ebikes!

The problem with the term "ebike"

is that the media - and people in general - refer to 2 wheeled things with motors that would put a Suzuki 500 to shame using the same term

the more responsible part of the media is starting to get better

but it is all confused for the general "man in the street" by some machine being legal in other countries but not here

 

[Drago]

And politicians are no better, demanding that these high performance "ebikes" be banned.

Er, they already are.

 

[C R]

And politicians are no better, demanding that these high performance "ebikes" be banned.

Er, they already are.

If only the ban had been enforced when they started to show up on the roads we may not be in the situation we are with so many illegal electric motorcycles zooming about.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I have a flamenco bike

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

And politicians are no better, demanding that these high performance "ebikes" be banned.

Er, they already are.

Err - yes

but if you want politicians to stick to facts - and actually know the facts

Then that might be a bit of an ask

of course - if they really want to stop them, then they would have to give some money to your ex-employer to train and deploy some more coppers on the streets to catch them

which is a far more difficult proposition for them than talking about it

but I agree - when the media seem to be making an effort to stop calling my legal ebike the same thing as the 1000W totally illegal thing
and then a politician goes it
then is as rather annoying - t say the least

 

[albion]

I guess ICE now has a sense of depravity thus the fashion.

 

[ianrauk]

*Still shaking head at the use of Acoustic*

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Is there any better but totally clear way of referring to the two things

I generally use "legal ebike" and "normal bike" but it is a bit clumsy

 

[ianrauk]

Is there any better but totally clear way of referring to the two things

I generally use "legal ebike" and "normal bike" but it is a bit clumsy

Bike and ebike.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Despite an attempt by the upper manager to get us to refer to bicycles as "Bio Bikes", we just call them "Normal Bikes"

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Bike and ebike.

but an ebike covers my legal version
and the ones I see whizzing around at 50 mph with a lad on it dressed in black and just sitting there twisting the throttle as he (probably) shoots up the wrong side of the road

and people seam that should be banned

my concern is simply that some future government will look to gain some votes by increasing the regualtion "to make our towns safe" and my bike will get caught in the fallout

when it will make zero difference that would not be made by enforcing the current rules

 

[Baldy]

Is there any better but totally clear way of referring to the two things

I generally use "legal ebike" and "normal bike" but it is a bit clumsy

Bikes = Bicycle.
Moped = Motor assisted pedal cycle.
Motorcycle = Anything else.

Simples