chrisp999Aug 14, 2023

[discussion] What do you do with your e-bike when you go to a store?

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[discussion] What do you do with your e-bike when you go to a store? - Lemmy.world

I’m trying to use my car less and bike to places where I can. I’ve thought about getting an e-bike to extend the range of places I can bike to, but one things that’s holding me back is what do I do with it while at the store? If it were just my crappy normal bike I wouldn’t really worry too much about someone stealing it, but if I’m gonna spend a few hundred on an e-bike I am nervous about leaving it unattended. What are your thoughts?

Show threadjohnlawrenceaspdenAug 14, 2023

I like to ride it at 30 miles an hour on the pavements and footpaths, scattering and scaring pedestrians and children.

Soon no place outside will be safe from hurtling steel, and we will have won.

I am planning to buy an off-roader, so I can get the vermin who try to hide in parks and gardens.

Show threadhillsanddalesAug 14, 2023

While I story of understand you anger, as there are some fools out there that are using their illegal ebikes effectively as motorcycles on bike paths and sidewalks, they are:

  • In the vast minority
  • On a 60lb vehicle, instead of a 3000lb vehicle, and can do far less damage as a result.

    • If you’re going to get angry, get angry at cars, car-centric infrastructure, and the fact that people on ebikes don’t have the proper cycling infrastructure to stay separated from pedestrians.

    Show threadjohnlawrenceaspden

    Don’t get me wrong, I’ve hated and feared cars since I was a boy. But some greenwashing fuckers and their shills in the ‘bike lobby’ legalising riding motorbikes in what used to be safe places has hardly improved matters.

    Fuck cars, fuck motorbikes.

    Also, 60 pounds my arse. Some of them are the same weight and speed as mopeds. And they don’t stay “restricted to 20mph” for long.

    Aug 14, 2023 at 5:34pmWeb