Dec. 22, 2016, 11:16 a.m. -  Tehllama42

#!markdown I feel like anybody ignoring the inevitable advancement in battery technology and low cost of reworking the electrical components to be unrestricted is kidding themselves, or deliberately ignoring a real possibility because it is at odds with their business plan. Energy density will continue to get better, meaning the same form factor combined with a sticker would allow a 1KW bike to look the exact same as a Type-1 restricted mountain eBike. Spoiler alert: advocacy issues do not arise from the 98% of users who are polite, reasonable, and provide a good face for the activity. Those are driven by the 2% of d-bags, and I suspect the overlap between that group, and those willing to invest some money and YouTube time to hack an eBike into a low- powered stealth moto is going to be non-trivial…