Alan B
100 GW
The cops are not going to try your bike. It is just not going to happen. If they think, even just suspect you have an illegal bike setup, they will just impound it and let the courts sort it out. Your lawyer bills will probably exceed the value of the machine.
These schemes for trying to hide your speed capacity or power are just a waste of energy. If they bother to get experts to evaluate your bike it just won't hold up. They may dig up your postings on the internet as well.
Spend your time doing something useful instead.
The only chance you have - is - keep the speed down. They can spot speed a mile away. Every camera along every road can be used to estimate speed fairly accurately. Power not so much.
Your best shot is to make your ebike look like a bike, and restrict your high speed runs to offroad. If you zoom around at motorcycle speeds, eventually one of the cars will take you out because they don't expect you to be going that fast. They look at you and see "bike", so they expect "bike speed". If they see you at all. If you are doing "motorcycle speed" you have two problems - they don't expect it, and you won't have time to save yourself when they cut you off.
The one "close encounter" I've had in over 10k miles of riding, while doing more than 20 and less than 40 in a residential zone with wide streets and nobody around, he pulled alongside (a motorcycle that I didn't realize was an officer until he was close, upon which I dropped the throttle), looked the bike over (probably looking for a gas motor), then he lost interest and zoomed away. I saw him a few minutes later on a different street going the other way and he didn't even look at me.
I can only guess that what saved me that day was "electric bicycle". This was on the GreyBorg, which is a very "moped" like machine, with moped tires and moped looks and a 50mm stator CroMotor. It was an afternoon commute run, and I was not far from home so let the speed creep up a bit. I was also wearing a motorcycle helmet and protective gear. Falls hurt a lot, even on a bicycle.
Wear the gear you want to have on in your next crash.
These schemes for trying to hide your speed capacity or power are just a waste of energy. If they bother to get experts to evaluate your bike it just won't hold up. They may dig up your postings on the internet as well.
Spend your time doing something useful instead.
The only chance you have - is - keep the speed down. They can spot speed a mile away. Every camera along every road can be used to estimate speed fairly accurately. Power not so much.
Your best shot is to make your ebike look like a bike, and restrict your high speed runs to offroad. If you zoom around at motorcycle speeds, eventually one of the cars will take you out because they don't expect you to be going that fast. They look at you and see "bike", so they expect "bike speed". If they see you at all. If you are doing "motorcycle speed" you have two problems - they don't expect it, and you won't have time to save yourself when they cut you off.
The one "close encounter" I've had in over 10k miles of riding, while doing more than 20 and less than 40 in a residential zone with wide streets and nobody around, he pulled alongside (a motorcycle that I didn't realize was an officer until he was close, upon which I dropped the throttle), looked the bike over (probably looking for a gas motor), then he lost interest and zoomed away. I saw him a few minutes later on a different street going the other way and he didn't even look at me.
I can only guess that what saved me that day was "electric bicycle". This was on the GreyBorg, which is a very "moped" like machine, with moped tires and moped looks and a 50mm stator CroMotor. It was an afternoon commute run, and I was not far from home so let the speed creep up a bit. I was also wearing a motorcycle helmet and protective gear. Falls hurt a lot, even on a bicycle.
Wear the gear you want to have on in your next crash.