Re: e-bikes are low powered motorcycles, not bicycles

On 4/21/2024 1:34 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 4/21/2024 12:20 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 4/21/2024 10:11 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

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Coincidentally, yesterday's the New York Times had an article about a young mother whose infant daughter died. The grief was overwhelming, of course. Her major point was that she coped largely through riding an eBike. Apparently her local terrain and conditioning or experience made a conventional bike too difficult for her.
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I take that to mean there are special cases out there, as always. (Tails of the normal curve.) And eBike riders can be enjoying the outdoors and nature. But I agree, most eBike riders seem to want to avoid actual exercise.
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Well, yes, positive examples are out there, including relatively active cyclists who've always owned premium 'Sunday morning' bikes but in their 80s suffer stamina deterioration and find battery powered 25lb carbon bikes helpful.
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Which isn't the general run of things:
https://www.chicagomag.com/wp-content/archive/city-life/April-2015/Divvy-Is-Usually-Faster-Than-Public-Transportation/divvy-commuter.jpg

 I'm reading on other forums that eBikes are over-represented in crashes, perhaps because people who have near zero biking experience are suddenly able to ride 18 mph in traffic.
 

Yes, and that's especially noted for urban electric power cycles and tourists.  Often not cyclists (i.e., in traffic they do not think or react like cyclists), in unfamiliar neighborhoods with unfamiliar traffic/pedestrian patterns on a heavy thing, with which handling they are inexperienced, at speed. Dangerous mix.
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