I think you actually have it backwards. "Motor Driven Cycle' is not a definition, but rather a requirement...Tamie wrote:According to that, a motorcycle is a motor vehicle but a moped is a motor driven cycle.threoh8 wrote:Yep.Crossfire wrote:OK, maybe not a moped. Licenses and insurance? Really?
Also, Anything that exceeds either of the speed or HP limits, is by definition, actually a motorcycle.Definition of a moped – A motor driven cycle whose speed attainable in one mile is not more than 30 miles per hour and that is equipped with a motor that produces not more than two-brake horsepower.
I'm pretty sure that most Vespas and other popular city mopeds nowadays exceed/don't meet those 3 requirements above, and are actually, by that definition, motorcycles.
The only actual 'mopeds' that would probably fit those requirements, would be ones like this:
The old style engine-assisted-bicycle kind that still has pedals. (Hence Motor-Driven-Cycle)
And not the ones like this, that are more common nowadays:
This one's 150cc, quite more than 2hp! Also, doesn't look like a 'Motor Driven Cycle'... looks nothing like a bicycle.
Even this 50cc one here, which could be under 2hp, advertises over 30mph (and as such, probably is more than 2hp), and wouldn't qualify as a 'moped'