Quote Originally Posted by ZMC888 View Post
In China I have never seen a legally plated electric motorcycle. I'm sure someone has a Zero SR or Brammo something, but mostly they have illegally powerful e-scooters. So a legal ebike or scooter should have a max power of 200w or so which is about the same as when I ride my bicycle when I'm not hungover. Your friend doing 60-70kmh on their ebike was not legal in any way. You see for that speed you need at least 5kw (5000w) of power, meaning he or she should have had registration, insurance and a license. So they were not actually legal at all hence the fine.....Even though it was most likely the pedestrians fault, I agree she was probably not looking. However in China usually the bigger vehicle pays without other evidence (otherwise corruption and 'buy the facts' becomes the reality).

So really this doesn't pat in to your 'do whatever you like' theory at close inspection.
Actually, the only ebikes under 500w are those that look like crappy bicycles and you can run faster than them. Most of them are 500-1500w. Then there are the M3s like mine that START at 2000w stock. I can reach about 75kph on my 2000w motor and dont even have the tiny bicycle license for mine. I ride past police every day and often run red lights/lane split right in front of them. I dont know what its like where you live, but they havent cared one bit here. I've heard plenty of stories of illegal motors and police. Some accidents and huge bills, some close calls with police stops, and police seeing a laowai face with no plates and waving him through the checkpoint. I think a lot of it is racial profiling. Chinese people are very racist against darker skinned people, but luckily I--as bad as it sounds--have a handsome white face with a big white smile.

Law is nothing but illusion; we are all truly free. Though consequences exist, so act accordingly.

EDIT: actually, I was told all ebike without pedals are technically illegal, so that's like what? 90% of them? what matters is what the police care about, and they are likely not to care unless someone get hurt or their boss is looking over their shoulder.