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Delimited e-bikes are going to be the next brklss scandal.
Fixed.
Fortunately, there aren't too many of them yet, and those that are there only exist to motorpace hippy, before being cruelly dropped.
But joking aside, I expect that rather than cause a scandal (which probably would happen if there was a tragic death related to their use), there are probably already plenty of people lobbying for a lifting of the legal limitations on e-bikes, as they hope this would accelerate sales (which, unlike in Germany and the Netherlands, have never yet taken off here). After all, it is a motorised mode, quite fast, and 'sustainable', with an emerging industry attached to it. I expect that if all that happened, helmets would become compulsory for e-bikes, though.
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those that are there only exist to motorpace hippy, before being cruelly dropped
Ha! You've seen me hunt those fuckers down then? No one passes me on a cheat bike, no one!
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But joking aside, I expect that rather than cause a scandal (which probably would happen if there was a tragic death related to their use), there are probably already plenty of people lobbying for a lifting of the legal limitations on e-bikes, as they hope this would accelerate sales (which, unlike in Germany and the Netherlands, have never yet taken off here). After all, it is a motorised mode, quite fast, and 'sustainable', with an emerging industry attached to it. I expect that if all that happened, helmets would become compulsory for e-bikes, though.
I think they just annoy me as they're lazy cheats who can't be bothered to get fit and ride a bike properly or pass a test, get insurance etc and be in some vague sense responsible like an actual motorbike rider. It's only a matter of time before one of them has a nasty crash.
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I don't see significantly more of them over here in Ams than I did in London, other than assisted cargo bikes. Mopeds in the bike lanes are a bit of a nuisance, and teh car ones are even worse
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Ebikes are going to be the next brklss scandal. I can feel it in my bones. As usual the police don't seem to have the resources or inclination to enforce the current rules and get rid of the mental 30 mph ones.