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That's great! And you are correct. Calling them a Motorbike is about as
misleading as calling them a Mountain Bike. Now I just wish that the
manufacturers would actually own up to this, stop trying to call them mountain
bikes, stop advertising them as mountain bikes, and stop passively trying to
slip this shit under the radar by willfully pretending that they are mountain
bikes and belong in the same space as mountain bikes.
So what the F should they be called? I think PedElec kind of works best, since
it does not sound like anything else, and has less chance of being confused
with either, but even this name is not perfect and I think in this case the
name is Very important.
Jan. 12, 2017, 1:53 p.m. - Metacomet
#!markdown That's great! And you are correct. Calling them a Motorbike is about as misleading as calling them a Mountain Bike. Now I just wish that the manufacturers would actually own up to this, stop trying to call them mountain bikes, stop advertising them as mountain bikes, and stop passively trying to slip this shit under the radar by willfully pretending that they are mountain bikes and belong in the same space as mountain bikes. So what the F should they be called? I think PedElec kind of works best, since it does not sound like anything else, and has less chance of being confused with either, but even this name is not perfect and I think in this case the name is Very important.