Fucking big tech is helping to destroy legitimate e-bikes by flooding the market with this illegal trash.

Currently, there is a Facebook Marketplace listing for the same bike as Nacato’s, for $200. The city official acknowledged that resale platforms like Facebook Marketplace are harder to rein in. But it’s not impossible.

“If you’re able to cut off the source, if you can successfully get these products off the street or are doing more to regulate then you are going to see less of them sold on places like Facebook. That’s going to take a while though,” said Lohr. “In the meantime Facebook should be doing as much as they can to regulate what is being sold on their marketplaces.”

It's real simple: NYC should force all ISPs in the city to stop resolving facebook.com until it complies. That'll get some fucking attention to the problem right quick!

Forgive me for not really giving a fuck about emotos. This is always an unpopular opinion, but I fail to be moved by the panic surrounding them every time they come up in discussion, and there are already laws in place to address the scofflaw behavior people claim they encourage. They're better than cars and the cars are still around. I'm going to stay focused on the cars.

Nah, miss me with the IlLeGaL E-MoToS bullshit. First of all, less teens driving is a good thing and trucks an SUVs are killing thousands of people every month without any significant regulation

The difference is that you can put a hardware limiter on it to make it compliant with E-bike regs, which are laughable because if a person on a 10 speed can do 35 in traffic or bike lanes no one complains, but add a battery and if it does 21 everybody screams "Moped! Motorbike!".

I saw a Long John Cargo Bike Driver get tackled off his bike from behind by enforcement in a video. He went to dispute the ticket and the fine he had to pay to get his bike back and the enforcement officers said that they took him off of his "Chopper Style E-Moto" because it was too powerful, and he and a technician then testified it is a cargo bike and it limits its ground speed but it is more powerful because it can carry a months worth of groceries and pull a trailer to haul more groceries and still go at a ground speed of 22 before it limits the rider, and the bike isn't chopped it is designed to carry cargo. Turns out he was jumped because of the size of his battery pack.

The court ruled that he could get everything but the money he paid to get his bike back. Got to love Ontario Enforcement.

NYC is so damn flat, tho.

Those are called fatbikes, no?

This isn't a real problem. Boomer ass merikkka and its f4000 baby crusher grocery getter empty beds like Haliburton humpity dumpity tonka toy can't work on it chat gipity spyware throw away pickup trucks and breeder SUVs are the problem. This is just anti chynah nonsense. I love CHINA deal with it boomers. I could be in a sea of you over socialised conformist dildos and I would still tell you to fuck off and that you are 100% wrong. Guided like a horse you are. Mandani is a fucking mayor big whoop... he already sniffin the ass of power and ready to piviot. The DSA is nothing but stank arse wankers.