Re:The Electric-Bike Conundrum
by indigo0086 on Friday August 18, 2017 @02:18PM
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These limits are arbitrary and for the simple fact that normal bikes can go considerably faster proves that it's not a true researched safety concern.
The "speed limiter" is esentially a motor cutoff. You can probably do 30 mph, it's just that you need to use your feet, which e-bikers probably don't.
Re:The Electric-Bike Conundrum
by indigo0086 on Friday August 18, 2017 @02:16PM
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It's also considerably heavier. The amount of effort you'd have to put into it (after downshifting) will proably at best give you one or two mph. As for bike behavior, I and many other cyclists consistently have to deal with slow cyclists taking up the entire lane. This is not unique to Ebikers in fact much more common to those without as there are far less on the roads I ride on (SF daily commuter)
Yeah; that happens in south bay too. The difference is that I'm usually done after passing them once, :-)
[edit: why the downvotes? It is a serious safety concern for me during my daily commute. Setting the max speed a few mph slower than everyone else's cruising speed is clearly hazardous. If they set the governors to 15mph it would also solve the safety issue (since you'd only need to pass each ebike once), but then the technology would fail. Is making them 1-2 mph faster than a bike really that big of an incremental safety issue?]