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In the UK up to 15.5 mph counts as a bicycle, faster is supposed to categorise as a motorcycle. Though people of course ignore that, the the police sometimes try to stop them: https://news.sky.com/story/e-bike-seizures-surge-as-police-t...

The other bad issue is battery fires - quite a few deaths there.

They should be limited to give assistance up to 25 kph, but many are illegally modified. It is a problem though, so they are working on new regulations for that.

What is your goal of categorising it differently tho?

Requiring the rider to get a special license, force them to ride on the road and not on paths. If you want a motorcycle, then it should be regulated as a motorcycle.

What does licence going to achieve?

In UK you are already required to ride on road. What if I wanna ride slow on pedestrian paths and fast on roads?

All of this regulation is just gonna force people into cars.

Oh yeah I have a friend who modded his to go faster and he says he's going faster than the cops driving the speed limit while going down a certain hill on a highway and he's in the bike lane and they can't do shit about it but watch him zip by

I bet they can do something about it.