More garbage MT bills - HB281 E-bikes aren't motorbikes

[winmag]

It just doesn't stop. Bill to allow ebikes wherever bicycles are allowed. You know, because electric motors aren't really motors.

LAWS Detailed Bill Information Page

 

[WapitiBob]

Pretty much a non issue except for state land.

 

[Buffs35]

Green energy, for the win!

 

[mtmuley]

E-bikes are motorcycles. The end. mtmuley

 

[Walkalot]

Walk in only?

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

SMH

pg 10, (19)

The State of Montana defining a “pocket rocket”

oh look Easter eggs in the chit sandwich

 

[Hem]

Beginning to wonder if I live in the last great place. Montana is changing rather rapidly it would appear.

 

[Walkalot]

Changing fast. Welcome to mt. Heres your ar 15

 

[mtmuley]

Beginning to wonder if I live in the last great place. Montana is changing rather rapidly it would appear.

Hold on tight. mtmuley

 

[rwc101]

So guide clients don't have to walk?

 

[Hem]

Hold on tight. mtmuley

Don't like it. Can we reverse 40 years?

 

[mtmuley]

Don't like it. Can we reverse 40 years?

I think about that sometimes.40 years ago is just about when I started hunting here in Montana. Long time ago but not really. Yeah, I wish we could reverse. mtmuley

 

[Hem]

I think about that sometimes.40 years ago is just about when I started hunting here in Montana. Long time ago but not really. Yeah, I wish we could reverse. mtmuley

I know...can't bemoan change. But the entire character of our state has really shifted.

 

[runningmt]

E-bikes are motorcycles. The end. mtmuley

Yup

An electric Jeep will be a Jeep......or will it?

 

[Sytes]

An electric Jeep will be a Jeep......or will it?

 

[Straight Arrow]

Yup

An electric Jeep will be a Jeep......or will it?

Yamaha electric Grizzly ... will it be the BLM ETV off-road everywhere?

 

[mtnkid85]

As used in this part, "off-highway vehicle" means a self-propelled vehicle used for recreation or cross-country travel on public lands, trails, easements, lakes, rivers, or streams. The term includes but is not limited to motorcycles, quadricycles, dune buggies, amphibious vehicles, air cushion vehicles, and any other means of land transportation deriving motive power from any source other than muscle or wind.

(2) Off-highway vehicle does not include:

(a) vehicles designed primarily for travel on, over, or in the water;

(b) snowmobiles; or

(c) except as provided in 23-2-804, vehicles otherwise issued a certificate of title and registered under the laws of the state, unless the vehicle is used for off-road recreation on public lands.; or

(d) electrically assisted bicycles as defined in 61-8-102."

It just doesn't make any fing sense. "Motive power from any source other than muscle or wind"... How does a electric motor not fit into that definition!?

 

[Nameless Range]

Pretty much a non issue except for state land.

Think of how great electric motorbikes will be on drainage roads of the Beartooth Game Range.

May 15th - horse vs motor on Montana’s WMAs.

 

[Luke_with_a_lab]

What ended up happening with this bill?

 

[Ben Lamb]

It died on 3/18. MT Wilderness Association did a lot of good work to kill it.