Not BITD - today and for the foreseeable future! Here in Toronto - like many other big cities I would guess - both e-bikes and e-mopeds are plentiful. They are allowed in the bike lanes and don't require a license to operate.
I agree they have certain benefits to providing greater utility and mobility to people and they are not fossil-fuel based. On the other hand, they are very fast and entirely silent, which pose a danger to traditional cyclists, since e-bikes have been allowed to use infrastructure designated for cyclist and pedestrians (which seems crazy to me). More than once I have almost been run over in the bike lane by a "powered bike", which is infuriating. Like some of you have touched on, this is an ongoing topic of discussion on MTB boards too. I think a lot of trails users are worried that routes closed to motorized vehicles are going to be increasingly overrun by what are in actual fact powerful motorized vehicles that exploit a legal grey area. I liken them to recreational drones: potentially useful but vulnerable to abuse in the hands of a moron. KJ On Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 3:51:34 AM UTC-4, Joe Bernard wrote: > > Mopeds were slow motorcycles you could only ride by using the throttle. > The pedals only existed to qualify it as non-licensed back in the day, you > couldn't actually use it as a bicycle. So the comparison, while pithy, has > nothing to do with the question I asked. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
