The ebike class 1/2/3 concept is stupid puritan nonsense driven by cyclist jealousy and serves only to limit the usefulness of ebikes as car replacements.
The ebike class 1/2/3 concept is stupid puritan nonsense driven by cyclist jealousy and serves only to limit the usefulness of ebikes as car replacements.
Fuck off with this divisive bullshit. When I biked in Asia where motorbikes are the norm, no motorcyclist ever gave me any shit for being on a bicycle, and I never had any problems with a motorcycle. The real threats on the road are cars, not other bikers.
I mean that’s great in Asia, I have never biked in Asia. Sounds like they’re fostering a culture where everyone using non-car vehicles learn to share the road, and that’s great. Shame we aren’t doing that here.
I have biked frequently in a number of US cities and the number of times I’ve been run off the bike lane by e bikers being absolute dickheads is ridiculous. I bike many times a week in my major US city and e bikers / e scooters are a goddamn menace. So are cars by the way, no idea why both of you are somehow strawmanning me as if I think cars aren’t dangerous. I am more afraid of being hit by a car than I am an e bike, but I’m more afraid of being hit by an e bike than I am a manual bike. Turns out more than one thing can be dangerous at a time, who knew.
Those ebikers will become literal BMW drivers if ebikes become inconvenient. At least you have mutually assured destruction with the ebikers.
The fact that they don’t require a throttle or engine noise at high speeds is insane though.
motor bikes and scooters are usually not a problem, people have to get a license for them which weeds out the worst offenders, and they’re loud and easy to spot. E-bikes have that electric car problem, where they’ll accelerate completely silently and appear out of nowhere right behind you. just make ebikes require a quick and cheap license/training course and make them have fake engine sounds, ezpz