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.

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    2 days ago

    It seems like he’s referring to the very real problem of people getting a doctor’s note to let them bring an untrained animal anywhere as if it were a trained service animal, and relating that to people putting pedals on a motorcycle to let them go anywhere a bike would be allowed.

    It’s an apt comparison as people with trained service animals and compliant ebikes are both hurt by others who bend or break their respective rules.

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      very real problem

      Is it though? Not a problem I’ve ever encountered, unlike dangerous ebikes. And the latter causes actual injury, not just a minor nuisance, so I wouldn’t call it an apt comparison either.

      If, however, the commonly held opinion is that animals in restaurants are as big a problem as dangerous motor vehicles… I guess that explains the lack of response at least.