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Modern sports bikes are marching towards the same future - self balancing bikes, fancy dashboards, electric bikes with no motor etc.

How can the bike not have a motor? Or like no motor in the engine sense.

Just like electric cars don’t have a motor, another word for motor is transmission in the common parlance.

Electric cars do have motor; "motor" is literally "engine", the thing that converts energy to motion.

If your parlance uses it for the transmission, your parlance is wrong. It is like calling square a circle.