eBikes and electric powered vehicles (including the Elf)
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This poll is intended only to guide the organizers in determining whether there is a consensus on the issue. No guarantees are made that we will follow the majority vote, if no actual consensus emerges.
Please read the discussion before voting. Three people so far have wanted to change their votes after reading the discussion. If this happens with you, please say so in a comment so that we can keep track.
Someone who uses an ELF (and considers it a bicycle) has now put in a registration. I’m assuming he plans to use the ELF for his miles. We therefore need to determine what vehicles are permitted to be counted in the competition.
My own inclination is to count miles by bikes that are primarily human powered, even if they have e-assist for uphills with a heavy bike and children aboard (and remember that one of our most beloved members uses such a bike), but not to allow anything that is primarily motor-powered. However, I’m not sure how we come up with a definition that would specifically cover this distinction.
I’m therefore putting out a poll. If you want to allow miles by certain bikes with electric power but not others, can you please put something in the comments about what definition you’d use? If you want to allow bicycles that are primarily motor-powered to count, can you please put something in the comments about what definition you would use to distinguish them from motorcycles (assuming you don’t want motorcycle miles to count for Freezing Saddles)?
Note that this question deals only with which miles count, not with who is permitted to enter Freezing Saddles. Someone who wants to be on the Bunch O’ Slackers, for example, can ride anything he or she wants (including a car), because the miles don’t count anyway. And if we rule out motor-powered vehicles, someone who primarily rides a motor-powered bicycle could still participate, but only the miles on non-motor-powered vehicles would count.
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