wturber
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billvon said:If it is reconfigurable, it's not on the list of class 1 bikes. Easy (bureaucratic) solution.wturber said:Nah - that doesn't work either. I can change my bike to Class 1, 2 or 3 by changing a few options using the LCD panel. So you configure your bike for the desired class, get it registered, slap on a sticker, and then reconfigure it. Suddenly enforcement isn't so easy.
Not easy at all. Now the City needs to be able to determine if something is reconfigurable or not. Maybe my controller case is from a "legal" Model A but the innards are actually from an illegal Model B (shoved a Phaserunner inside :^). And, of course, they need to deal with the possibility of swapping out parts like the controller after inspection. Essentially any bike is reconfigurable. It's just a matter of how hard or easy it is to do so. So now you need stickers for all the components?!? And all this assumes that counterfeiting the stickers is hard - which it may not be and that regulators and cops know to beware of the ways systems can be reconfigured at the outset.
Some of this may seem a tad extreme, but if this was my job or if I was an enthusiast, it might be easily worth the trouble. And those folks are the "problem" groups to begin with. Right?