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In Ireland cops don't bother to enforce the EU law. I've encountered 10 year old kids doing max speed on e-scooters on the pavement (sidewalk to you Americans). There also seem to be lots of pretend-pedelecs that require no pedaling, and they're not legal without a licence and (I think) licence plates.

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I just want to know where they’re getting these things. Is there some dodgy bike shop which sells the bike and then sneakily delimits it under the counter?

Interweb, I'd bet

It's trivial with most of the common cheaper equipment, you don't need a shop at all since the EU standard is mostly an arbitrary limitation and they try to reuse the same equipment worldwide. Expensive European bikes will actually have smaller motors so they will be physically limited.

In the US many bikes have an off-road mode that delimits them, no real effort required.

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