Da Bald Eagul

Which is the difficulty in regulating this, unfortunately. But from what I understand, regular e-bikes aren’t as easy to modify as these fatbikes are. so it’d be a temp fix while manufacturers circumvent the ban’s specific phrasing.

The problem is that they don’t go above 25km/h out of the factory, they are (easily) modified to do so. And by default you need to paddle to propel yourself, but this is often bypassed as well.

Which by default are required, but they are easy to modify to use a throttle lever instead, and they tend to be modded to go 40+ km/h rather than the legal limit of 25 here in the NL.

These things are quite often modified to drive 40km/h, without paddling. And the brakes go unmaintained. much more often compared to regular bikes, according to ad.nl, which leads to difficulty stopping & as such very dangerous situations on intersections. I’m all for banning these, throughout the country.