Simon Brooke"We have noted before that this is the fastest ride to zero-carbon; almost anyone can ride an e-bike for six miles under almost any conditions. If there were safe places to ride and secure places to park, then millions of car trips could be avoided, and millions of cars taken off the road"
Davie Duck@simon_brooke @GatekeepKen The road infrastructure is missing for most of the world for e-bikes. I wonder ihow soon we’ll see plug-in charging spots for e-bikes in office blocks and shopping districts?
@wackyIdeas @GatekeepKen what makes you feel they need new road infrastructure?
@simon_brooke @GatekeepKen I think it’s a temporary problem but drivers (of conventional vehicles) don’t always recognize the difference between an e-bike and a standard bike. They expect a bike to move at a slower speed and to be less agile in traffic. A different problem exists on dedicated bike roads or multiuse trails. On those facilities, I see e-cyclists going at speed through groups of riders or walkers (and one exciting morning, past horseback riders).
@wackyIdeas @GatekeepKen in my experience most electric bikes are less agile than good non-electric bikes; and a reasonable cyclist on a light bike on the flat will be faster than the mandatory cut-off speed of an ebike anyway, so I'm really not sure there's a distinction here.
You may be saying that ebike users are more likely to behave discourteously; you may even be right, but it's not something I've noticed.
Daniel Barlow@simon_brooke @wackyIdeas @GatekeepKen in London - and probably other big cities - ebikes have seen great adoption by food delivery gig workers, and they're paid by the delivery and not generously, so tend to ride them in the same "spirited" manner as they'd ride the mopeds they might instead be using if ebikes weren't a thing.
I think the problem here is more attributable to capitalism then to ebikes
I think the problem here is more attributable to capitalism then to ebikes