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Oliver Schick
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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.