>>1330940>All that needs to happen for eMTB is an ADA lawsuit to blow everything wide open, but advocates are trying to play nice and that's sort of the nuclear option.They're already waving that card, threatening ADA lawsuits here. Even some quack doctors offering medical marijuana class diagnoses to go with the e-bike. I'll admit, it's a big stick, but it's not the only factor. For one, lots of federal agencies aren't subject to the ADA, like BLM. Second is that all facilities aren't required to be ADA accessible. For example, if a park has 5 baseball fields, only one needs to be accessible. So a park can say that the pissant fire trail is the ADA accessible trail, and all the single track is not. Finally, if you try to reclass an ebike as an vehicle for accessible access, you're begging to eat an entire busload of other regularion, like the shit for power wheelchairs.
You can thank the OHV people again for that last one, for trying to get their 250 horsepower quad runners classed as mobility scooters, and fighting with park services and the DMVs all the way..
We'll just have to see how that works out. One potential outcome is that class 1 ebikes get allowed, but class 1 is dropped to 250 watts, 15 mph cutoff, ala europe.
And when I was talking about the trend, I was talking about the trend for OHVs. That's not going in a favorable direction for the e-bicycle crowd.
>>1330940>If the rear tire breaks traction and spits dirt during acceleration that would be a pretty big tell. Also the presence of a throttle would be another.Class 2 ebicycles can have both, legally.
