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Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates.
(www.nytimes.com)
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These are E-bikes we're talking about. They can be quite fast. Some can do 50-60 even. Killing people is certainly possible. Requiring both to obey traffic signals, isn't unreasonable.
Pretty sure in the EU they are supposed to be limited to 25kmh, which is the upper speed limit for bike lanes too
Speed-pedelecs are allowed to go 45kmh and are allowed both on bike lanes and car lanes in the Netherlands. They have a license plate as well, looks like a regular ebike.
They don't so much have a speed limit but they're required to stop giving you a boost at 25 km/h. Anything that uses a motor to go faster needs a license plate and everything.
At least in Germany bike lanes don't have a speed limit, you can drive as fast as you want as long as it's safe, you're in control, etc. Especially relevant when going downhill.
Sunday or leisurely drivers will go 10 to 25km/h, when you're fit, the road surface is good and the bike built for it sustaining 35km/h isn't much of an issue, fastest I ever went on my mountain bike with semi-slicks (so no racing transmission but no unnecessary friction losses either), on flat ground, was 38km/h. But that's pushing it for the sake of pushing it, my average top speed is just over 30. No lycra, no race bike.
I'll take a hit from an ebike over a speeding car any day of the week
They also weigh as much as their rider sometimes. Easily 300+ lbs with a full grown man on them.
Please show me an ebike that weighs 150 lbs...
Easier to show you a full grown man who weighs 300+ pounds all by himself ...
I weigh 225 and an Aventon that fits me is 75. 300.
Great example for a bike that "weighs as much as the rider" genius.
It was two separate examples. Kids ride these things and weigh less than the bike. But also the combo can exceed 300 lb.
Kids don't ride e-bikes that are basically mopeds or seriously injure others.