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NYC's e-bike classification rules can be confusing — especially when online retailers (and the media 👀) describe anything with two wheels and a motor as an e-bike Sophia Lebowitz explains why it's so easy to think you're buying an e-bike when you've really been sold an illegal e-moto

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