Electric bike quandry

[vinceprince]

Heres a question, while i was sat at a section on my electric trials bike a rider pulled up alongside me and said, do i know if his lad could ride one of the electric bikes in the youth class! interesting point i didnt have the answer but the bike has a power switch each position is equivalent to 80cc. 125cc, 250cc and 300cc so in theory it covers all classes but i still dont know the answer to the question and i wonder if the ACU has ever thought about it

[lemur]

Don't know how it is where you ride, but around here youth class is a support class and not a championship class, you can ride almost anything in a support class because it counts for almost nothing.  From my riding on electric trials bikes so far I set the power switch in the lowest power position and don't move that up until I actually find the thing to be underpowered, which so far has never happened.  

[konrad]

The 2021 EM Race has a "schoolboy" mode.  The Map switch then gives three very low-power settings.  But from 2022 onward, this feature was eliminated so EM could use that input to activate TKO.

[overdale]

If youths are riding in an ACU event they have to comply with Trials Standing Regulations TSR1 under Engine capacity /wheel size for age groups - with power at back wheel limited depending on what class they ride.  10 bhp for A & B Class, 7 for C & D and 2bhp for E class.

[vinceprince]

I think its very easy to set the bhp to any setting you desire on these bikes so that could be good news for my inquisitive dad and i would think the system can be locked out in some way the same as on an EMTB and then one bike coould be used right through the classes, i guess the only issue is how would the trial organisers know if the bike was set to the required bhp limit unless the ACU have a plan for that. He said to me that because his lad had grown up on Osets then it was a natural progression on to a bigger e bike.