It’s Time To Subsidize E-bikes
clivethompson.medium.com
We offer tax credits for electric cars — but ebikes are arguably even more transformative

Its an interesting article about subsidizing ebikes.

  • SolNine@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think E Bikes are amazing, but people don’t seem to take their speed seriously enough in my area. Those things absolutely crank, and people seem to have no concept of their potential danger to themselves, pedestals or other motorists. Nearly 30 mph isn’t a joke, and they seem to ride on the sidewalks here rather than the roads.

    • usualsuspect191English
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      1 year ago

      It’s a funny situation where normally you’d have to be quite fit and capable on a bike before reaching those speeds but now you can just start there instead of working up to it.

      In my area at least, the ones most riding e-bikes are people who haven’t biked in awhile and have lost fitness from when they last rode too. Now they’re riding a heavier bike with a heavier body at speeds beyond even their previous skill level, and the brakes on these bikes aren’t as beefy as they should be with this in mind either.