It's the disrespect of the law and common safety that throws the baby out, not the law itself. The law exists in many places but many people are let go because they follow logical rules to ensure they are riding safely. Then you have places where the law is heavily enforced because nearly everyone is breaking safety laws and putting themselves and others at risk of harm or damage. These 2 sides can happen in the same state (i hear Philly is pretty tough on motorized bikers, meanwhile in Erie you get pulled over only for breaking traffic laws.)
I definitely need the larger 66 variety of motors, and while it's technically illegal to use it it doesn't seem to be a problem around here if it's one or the other. Obviously I'm decked out to be seen and I use turn signals and have 2 mirrors, I know how to use them and I do use them. Other people drive like retards and get their bike impounded. Funny enough a person who was known to drive without regards to traffic laws had his bike stolen. Well he filed a report and they found his bike but impounded his bike and gave him a list of fines from all his bad driving and they had the city traffic cams to prove his guilt. Stupid is what stupid does.
I agree that we shouldn't encourage the overpowered high speed mentality. I can encourage speed as a basis of need however, if you are traveling commonly on roads where cars will be driving 30 mph then it's a good idea to tune your bike to be capable of keeping up and upgrading brakes to stop just as quickly as a car. If you have hills then adjusting as needed to be able to climb hills with a good speed is also important. At some point or another you'll realize that a well tuned and powerful motor is what is needed to keep up with traffic. What you decide to do with it is on you. It's honestly no different than something like a car with a ztek engine, people love those motors because you can remove nearly every regulation sensor and governor in it and create a dangerously powerful motor that fits into a very small and light vehicle. While it's illegal to drive it with it burning so much fuel and basically laughing in the face of the epa people still do it. If they decide to race in it on the public road that's up to them. If they are still alive when inspection comes around they can simply reinstall the sensors or governors and pass or take it to their buddy's friends cousin's registered inspection station and be in and out in 10 minutes with a pass sticker.
What I'm trying to get at is the law isn't a problem whatsoever, police and sheriffs regularly look the other way because it's so convenient to do so when there is logically no problem with the situation. It's when you get out of control do they pay attention and decide what to do about it because it's for the best that dangerous people should be off the roads. And yes,they are enforcers of the law and they will toss everything in the book at you to ensure you won't keep being a problem. If anything the over abundance of laws is actually a fantastic way to allow leos to hand pick who they are removing from the road at their discretion, and since I trust they will be doing what's in the best interest for their community I'm fine with the laws existing, because I know that if I'm behaving in a safe manner then I really have nothing to worry about.
I imagine it helps if you are white
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I dont disagree with your points, but if its good law, why enforce it arbitrarily? Making an ass of the law (laws honored largely in the breach) is a slippery slope for a society. Think prohibition or recreational drugs.
Here in Oz, a big sparsely populated country (driving age 17yo), which could probably benefit from them more than most, petrol bikes are banned outright. With the stroke of a pen, folks who bought kosher petrol bikes, found their investment useless.
The biggest proponents of this were brethren cyclists, urban latte set cyclists, who clearly can cope with harleys, big rigs, lawn mowers..., but not a ~50cc bike motor.
Torque aside, 700w is very decent on an ebike. A 25cc honda gx25 does over that.
Fundamentally, it is not a policemans job to interpret the law. Thats pakistan u r thinking of.
For example, a policeman now has reasonable excuse to pull over any motorised bike and throw his weight around, no matter how benign the riders road manners and machine.
Of course some discretion to save expensive legal fuss has its good points, just saying.
