We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes

Re:We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes by fennecfoxen on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @05:38PM (#21339286)

If you Google image search for "early motorcycle" most things will look a lot like an ordinary bicycles. Some versions of the 1903 Peugeot, for instance, had pedals on a crank, and even those that didn't were pretty slender:

https://cybermotorcycle.com/gallery/peugeot-1903/Peugeot-190...

The fact that your bicycle has an electric motor and remains somewhat slim doesn't change this fact.

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Re:We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes by magduf on Monday October 28, 2019 @07:36PM (#21382940)

This is a silly argument. Do a Google image search for "cars in the 1800s" or something like that, and you're going to see "cars" that have tillers instead of steering wheels, and resemble horse carriages much more than modern cars. This doesn't mean horse carriages or motorized carts or golf carts qualify as "cars" in 2019.

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Re:We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes by carapace on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:17PM (#21357116)

I upvoted you for technical correctness, but I'm still convinced that, as rhetoric, your point fails.

Calling an eBike a motorcycle in 2019 is over-exaggeration, IMO, FWIW.

But, again, I do agree with you that powered bikes are not the same as human-power-only bikes.

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