Honestly a great take. While i generally doesn’t mind throttle-only use of an ebike, some of these machine is just way too fast, to the point people are starting to look at ebike like they look at car.

  • teolan@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The issues is that these “bikes” end up being used in mixed pedestrian/bicycle areas where they can seriously harm other cyclist and pedestrians. If they don’t end up harming them they will make everyone feel less safe than a normal bicycle (with limited electric assistance) that needs effort to accelerate rapidly and therefore will stay much closer to a cruising speed where they don’t need to accelerate/brake rapidly.