rider95
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Just saw on the news were in NYC you can now ride hover Boards on the sidewalks , but passed a law banning E bikes because of safety concerns ??? wtf
NYC to allowe Hover Boards
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Ykick
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links please
WoodlandHills
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Interesting. AFAIK, in CA you can't ride bikes or hoverboards on sidewalks: both are restricted to streets, bike lanes and paths.
I think it is of more importance that there was a very well publicized hoverboard fire the other day and that airlines are beginning to ban them from flights due to the batteries being over the watthour limit for lithiums. Could this have an impact on the eBike business' Dirty Little Secret?
http://electric-fatbike.com/2015/12/01/the-ebike-industries-dirty-little-secret-haz-mat-battery-shipping/
I think it is of more importance that there was a very well publicized hoverboard fire the other day and that airlines are beginning to ban them from flights due to the batteries being over the watthour limit for lithiums. Could this have an impact on the eBike business' Dirty Little Secret?
http://electric-fatbike.com/2015/12/01/the-ebike-industries-dirty-little-secret-haz-mat-battery-shipping/
dogman dan
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No way in hell a new law was passed that quick, during the holidays.
But they may have said to the cops, enough like a Segway to ignore them. Not sure about NYC, but Segway did a lot of lobbying to get them made legal on sidewalks in major cities. This way they can have Segway tours of places like Washington DC.
But they may have said to the cops, enough like a Segway to ignore them. Not sure about NYC, but Segway did a lot of lobbying to get them made legal on sidewalks in major cities. This way they can have Segway tours of places like Washington DC.
Ykick
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How ‘bout at least a station channel which ran this news story?
LockH
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http://nypost.com/2015/12/30/councilman-changes-his-mind-thinks-hoverboards-are-cool-now/
"Councilman changes his mind, thinks hoverboards are cool now"
http://nypost.com/2015/11/20/nypd-tries-to-ground-hoverboard-sales-with-city-wide-ban/
"Councilman changes his mind, thinks hoverboards are cool now"
http://nypost.com/2015/11/20/nypd-tries-to-ground-hoverboard-sales-with-city-wide-ban/
dogman dan
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I'm quite sure the NYPD is champing at the bit to have another stupid thing to enforce. 
But if you are knocking over old ladies on the sidewalk, they might go after you on the flunked the attitude test policy.
But if you are knocking over old ladies on the sidewalk, they might go after you on the flunked the attitude test policy.
Mundo
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New law for Calif.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/New-Hoverboard-Laws-Coming-to-California-on-January-1-363702931.html
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/New-Hoverboard-Laws-Coming-to-California-on-January-1-363702931.html
LockH
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"...in the last three months 52 hoverboard fires across the U.S. causing at least 2 million in property damage..." - US Consumer Protection Safety Commission. Vid from ABC 7 in Chicago:
http://abc7chicago.com/news/video-hoverboard-ignites-in-highland-park-home/1219317/
https://www.facebook.com/abc7chicago/videos/10154091275736162/
http://abc7chicago.com/news/video-hoverboard-ignites-in-highland-park-home/1219317/
WoodlandHills
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Why are hoverboard posts in the electric bike forums? Shouldn't they be in some sort of etoy forum instead? What part of this content has anything with ebikes?
LockH
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WoodlandHills said:
Transport using a contraption that uses an electric motor and batteries? "Bike" short for BI-CYCLE. Meaning two-wheeled. (These "hoverboards" don't in fact "hover" but instead roll on two wheels.) Why not post your "concerns" in the thread here about quadcopters/drones? (Which generally have no wheels at all.)
So. The forum here about larger "EV"s should be deleted?
It's a confusing world isn't it.
WoodlandHills
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In what universe is a hoverboard a bicycle? No pedals, no seat, no gears, no brakes, parallel track design and not mono track, no headset, no frame, no handlebars, no tires or tubes.....
If the requirement for eligibility is batteries and wheels, perhaps we should just mash the EV and electric bike forums together. My neighbor has a battery toy car for his toddler is that appropriate to post here too: it has wheels batteries and an electric motor, heck it even is operated on the sidewalk like a hoverboard!
Should I copy my i3 posts here too? It's got batteries and an electric motor, just like a hoverboard! Maybe it's a bicycle too?
If the requirement for eligibility is batteries and wheels, perhaps we should just mash the EV and electric bike forums together. My neighbor has a battery toy car for his toddler is that appropriate to post here too: it has wheels batteries and an electric motor, heck it even is operated on the sidewalk like a hoverboard!
Should I copy my i3 posts here too? It's got batteries and an electric motor, just like a hoverboard! Maybe it's a bicycle too?
LockH
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This forum sub-titled "Electric Vehicle and Technology Forums" "Vehicle"? One definition "a thing used for transporting people or goods". Although this thread first posted in sub-forum "E-Bike General Discussion" ("bike"= a two-wheeled vehicle"). Currently on the Facebook ES "forum"? A list of dozens of different types of "bicycles". Care to name some? EG is riding "recumbent" still a "bicycle"? How `bout a stand up, two-wheeled kick scooter (no seat)? Clearly there is some cross-over in these "different technologies". But I guess you might be mollified if the Admins here xfer this thread to "electric vehicles" and out of "E-Bike General Discussion"?
