John has a super-valid point. Though I do see the advantages and contributions that e-bikes have made to society and I believe they have a place, it is also true that a huge number of people effectively use them as motorcycles. What's more is that, as is now being found out in Europe (indicated by a dog-walking acquaintance from Finland), the fundamental problems with E-bikes is that they readily enable folks to operate with very high speeds in the absence of bike handling skills. That is to say that, unlike a human-powered bike where the skills involved in attaining high speeds generally requires commensurate bike handling skills, E-bikes enable one to quickly obtain high speeds with little to no bike handling skills.
Don't kid yourselves, someone is definitely going to get hurt unnecessarily riding an E-bike on the bike trail, maybe not fatally, but seriously. Just hoping they don't take anybody else down with them. Oh - also - forgot, this logic is also underscored by the fact that many E-bikes are tremendously heavy - lots of momentum to deal with. On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 6:55 PM john wagnitz via Bikies < bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote: > Anybody taking bets on how long before we see a fatality on the bike path > in Madison? I predict before the end of the month. > The offenders are not riding B-Cycles but seem to all be riding “bikes” > with the Copenhagen wheel. I’m pretty sure they are breaking the speed > limit. > The State Legislature gave local governments the power to regulate these > “bikes.” > I hope any local officials reading this post will do something before > somebody gets seriously injured, or killed. > John Wagnitz > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > Bikies@lists.danenet.org > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >
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