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Originally Posted by dshoberg
So, I had an e-bike pass me on a multi-modal path while I was doing around 20mph in my golf cart. When I got home, I looked up the specs on some of those bikes. When I read about some reaching 30 mph, I had to think. If I can get a ticket in The Villages for going over 20 mph in my cart, can they also get ticketed?
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I bought a very nice e-bike on Amazon. Close to $3,000. It had a governor that could be set by the owner using a normally hidden electronic control panel for anywhere between 3 mph and 45 mph. It could also supposedly go 60 mph on a charge. (The tests could be seen on YouTube.) I’m not surprised. It had a motorcycle-type frame and big tires,ma great headlight, Mordor’s, and all. Motorcycles go much faster than that.
But I chickened out. I came to my senses and realized what a fall would do to the rest of my pleasant life here. I never even threw a leg over it. Never turned it on. I put it up for sale. After six months, someone finally came to see it and bought it for $1,000.
I’d had pedals and was classified as an e- bike. The governor could certainly be set for 20 mph. It could keep up on cart lanes. What puzzles me is why regular bicycles that seldom reach 20 mph are allowed Morse and Buena Vista, but carts aren’t. Seems dangerous and risky,