Thanx for the burn??? What do you see on page 21 that has anything to do with a motorized bicycle? Perhaps take your own advice...
Not a low speed vec. No dl required .
Not a low speed vec. No dl required .
Nothing "revisionist" about it. I am a Municipal Law Enforcement Officer here in Maine and recently had a go-round with a Lieutenant at Maine State Police and the ME Secretary of State's Office (intellectual context, not adversarial).That's some revisionist logic if I ever saw it, lol.
Yes, hilarious. I didn't shoot the gun because I didn't push the firing pin I just pulled the trigger.Has a motor attached to a wheel
Well, My bike (engine) is attached to my FRAME and drives the bicycle's chain rings (not the wheel)
It IS funny, don't you think?
Everyone is entitled an opinion, one as valuable as the next. Anyone can claim they are anything and do so anonymously on the web. It's up to each reader to discern what's being written, if/how it might apply to them, or not at all. If that's being an antagonist, so be it. I'd rather that things get fully parsed, and expect all should, then taken at face value because someone claims it is so. That motives may be altruistic is all well and good, as long as the advice is sound, doesn't incite people to breach or stretch the law or be influenced to do so because it just may to suit their self-served short term interests but in the end cause more problems than it solves. If one were in fact a working LEO it seems remiss to at not least place the caveat that this may at best be a short term legal dodge and it's really in the best interests of everyone and the sport that either long term compliance be met or get the laws changed.Happy, your sarcasm shows that you believe the semantics I bring up are absurd- perhaps as absurd as your comparison. What I am bringing to this discussion is information, based on my 16 years experience working in law enforcement in two different states, that it is semantics like these that tips the "burden of proof" away from the prosecution into YOUR favor. What I am sharing is FACT (here in Maine) not a personal opinion and this same distinction in how laws may be poorly worded in YOUR state may help you if you get jammed up by the police. Take it or leave it, Happy, but don't be an antagonist: that does not help anyone.
To me, this sounds far-fetched and I imagine it to be the kind of legal ruse that a judge would scoff at. If I am in a car on a hill exceeding the speed limit but have the motor off and coast, am I still speeding? On another note, it also sounds like the kind of logic that attracts negative attention by lawmakers and can get whole classes of vehicles banished or severely restricted with broad strokes.Shift Kits power your CHAINRINGS and not your WHEEL then the build does not match the definition of a "Motorized Bicycle." Since it requires "shifting" it is not a "moped" and since it is less than 50ccs it is not a "motorcycle." As such, none of the laws such as speed restriction of <20 apply to MABs with shift kits.
I know that when it comes to MBs and legal issues, 99% of what you read on the net is wrong.