Legal?
Funny thing, in my state, area , locale I have only seen 2 other motorized bike in my lifetime. But every freeway on-ramp has a sign warning off pedestrians and Motorized bikes. Those signs have been there for 30 years at least.
Of course I looked up the legalities of a motorized bike before my first buy;
" No more that 50cc and no more that 15mph". On the mph caveat I'm riding rebel of course. It's classified as a bicycle/moped DOT wise. One only needs a car driver license like with a 50c or below scooter. No blinkers/ lights or plates.
I feel very lucky. At the same time I do feel the frustration and angst of those motor bicyclists who get caught up for leaving a cleaner and more slender footprint on the road. Like a motorized bike is a danger to anyone else but the rider.
Not to digress too much but we could be running on hydrogen now. Every vehicle, large and small. No pollution. Purified water leaves the tailpipe.
The U.S, federal govt. has been blocking this technology at every turn for years. Bedfellows with the global oil system. But somehow back in WW2 we had no problem utilizing the wispy hydrogen to it's most unimaginable violent extent. After that hydrogen proved to be way to wimpy for use in devices of unimaginable violent extent
The feds are pushing ethanol. Quickly we can already see the local, regonal and global effects of putting food resource in the gas tank.
Michael