Nearly 10,000 dollars later (that's decent used-car money nowadays), you built yourself the ultimate e-bike. (Mind you, you stick to pedal assist, using real pedals, but no throttle. This is a still a bicycle by definition). A test drive tells you this is the ultimate bicycle for speed. It feels exactly like an electric motorcycle, except it still has rotating pedals so it feels more like a super bionic bicycle of mechatronic proportions, multiplying your efforts at least four-fold. It also reaches near-highway speeds (but you hold yourself from speeding because you're a responsible motorist) with much more headroom for higher speed!

But you ask yourself as you speed at nearly freeway-speeds on a bicycle (in the appropriate roads of course): is the speed and sense of rushing worth it? At what point does an electric bicycle turn into a motorcycle? You're just doing this to please car-drivers, and they are impossible to please. Now you're quelling the impeding traffic, but now you're sure they'll accuse you on reckless speeding. Despite the road law limiting e-bikes to only 32kph or 20mph by throttle, it does not apply the same hard limit when it comes to pedal assist. You're taking advantage of a loophole, but car-drivers are only interested in citing laws that ensure driving convenience. Stuff like traffic impediment (without thinking of traffic jams as traffic impediment to those who walk or bike) and stay close to curb side (omitting as safely practicable of course).

Interesting that speeds like these in the public roads is never enough in a car, but is crazy excessive when done otherwise. You also notice that no matter how lawfully motorcycle-like you behave (with the high-speeds to boot!), car-drivers still see you as a bicycle, and tend to close-pass you. You're starting to feel that even if you're fully equipped with the unobtainium bicycle license and road insurance somehow, it will not change the amount of (lack of) respect you get from car-drivers.

And you're very sure that sooner or later, a car-driver overdoes it and not only will you wreck a 10,000-dollars worth of equipment in one go, but you will also become the dreaded...

Meat crayon.

(Impending upending blame-shift of speeding, recklessness, illegality, and unpredictability--irregardless of how lawfully and predictably you actually ride--comes separately).

Quit the arms-race while you're still alive!
Ride on the road or sidewalk like a normal person on a bicycle. You can either go slow or fast.
Or just do away with the whole cyclist stigma, and go back to driving a car, preferably a sports car or supercar. At least with a sports car you can speed safely (at other road-users' expense, of course, but most people turns a blind eye anyway), and you don't really make a bad name to ALL car-drivers, only drivers of specific brand names.