Everyone loves e-bikes – except some who have to share roads with them

Re:Everyone loves e-bikes – except some who have to share ro... by alanfranz on Sunday August 07, 2022 @07:45AM (#32375745)

Afaik in the US e-bikes can be much more powerful than in EU, they’re almost electric mopeds.

In EU there’s no such problem, but there’re more E-bikes around because they appeal to elder or people that wouldn’t generally feel comfortable riding a normal bike, so yeah, numbers are increasing and some older people aren’t happy.

About the “bikes need dedicated infrastructure”: every time a dedicated bike lane is proposed around my region in Italy, the project gets scrapped because it would remove parking lots, or make some car lane narrower.

You can’t have bike infra without sacrificing car infra, and that’s the big deal.

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Re:Everyone loves e-bikes – except some who have to share ro... by Someone on Sunday August 07, 2022 @08:27AM (#32375943)

The EU has electric bicycles that don’t provide any power when going over 25 km/hour and speed pedelecs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bicycle#S-Pedelecs), which stop providing power at 45 km/hour.

The former typically are treated as bicycles (can go everywhere bicycles are allowed), the latter as lightweight motor cycles (⇒ requires insurance, some driver’s license and helmet use, can’t go on regular bicycle lanes, may be restricted from using some separate bike paths)

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