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Cauterize and starve away any remaining urbanist thought-leaders who say “e-bikes are cheating”
@bikepedantic @ozdreaming it seems like the real concern is separation by speed, not the means through which someone is achieving them. It’s still rude and inconsiderate for someone on an acoustic road bike to whiz past pedestrians at 20 MPH. If we weren’t all fighting over scraps, this wouldn’t be as much of a problem.
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Not to hijack your toot, but I have a pretty negative gut reaction to powered vehicles on bikeways and shared paths, from uniwheel boards to e-Vespas cruising down the Minuteman at 30mph, which scare me, and I see more of them every year. I don't feel that way about e-bicycles and cargo bikes -- their operators seem in as good control of them as the average cyclist (for better or worse)! But it feels hard to draw clear boundaries between different category of powered boards, bikes, scooters, mopeds, etc, despite MassBike-sponsored efforts to rationalize the regs and definitions (https://www.massbike.org/ebikes), which I support. And no one enforces traffic rules anywhere, road or path. :(