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yeah lots of ebikes with throttles out there generally used by Deliveroo riders, I can see the reason why; cheaper than actual moped.
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From an environmental perspective, it's definitely an improvement over mopeds, but I do wish they wouldn't delimit them. No idea if the one in the above incident was, but I've seen so many.
Also, the state of this--should probably post this in the Deliveroo thread, but when you phone to get a takeaway from RASA N16 these days, which I rather like doing and have been doing for over 20 years, you get a free curry (I kid you not, and inevitably an excellent one) just because you're not using one of the exploitative 'delivery' companies (really: monopolising information flow and accumulation to force smaller businesses into accepting a huge cut to their takings).
I mean, I never understood the attraction of ordering pizza to be delivered to your door long before Deliveroo et al. started, but that's probably because I like riding my bike a lot, I don't particularly go for pizza (got nothing against it, it's just not food I turn to first), and I hardly ever get takeaways except from RASA, but I think the current development, where some shit companies are trying to get people to accept having food delivered as the default, is utterly absurd.
Oliver Schick
I realise that for many delivery riders e-bikes are just the new mopeds (although many still ride actual mopeds, and a good few ride without e-assist, too), but today I saw someone riding an e-bike nearly get hit head-on by a driver who was going too fast when the rider took a corner much too fast and ended up too far out into the carriageway. His evasive manoeuvre was something to behold, and there were probably centimetres in it. He then nearly hit the back of the parked car that his evasion had enabled him to shelter behind, but that had also blocked his view of oncoming traffic that he should have slowed down to improve. Luckily, no-one was hurt. The driver was definitely at fault, but the rider more.