People will be riding down the mixed use pedestrian/bike pathway on what looks like a bike, going 45mph next to the road with a 35mph speedlimit without peddaling.
I think there needs to be some regulation that makes it more visually apparent what is an electric bike and what is an electric motorcycle.
Sidewalk should have a 10mph speed limit, or no bikes allowed. I do ride an e-bike I can get up to 35mph (allegedly 28mph but with max assist and pedaling hard and I can, 35) but on a PEDESTRIAN SIDEWALK, with cars turning out of businesses and not looking, I go max 14mph, and walk the bike around people, walk it across intersections. It’s still faster than walking to work and I don’t arrive sweaty, slow is fine.
At the park, on the very wide path, of I am arriving for a Pokemon Go hour or something, I can get around the people fine but still go slow.
In the car road, though - say the sidewalk has pedestrians, I get in the road instead - I need the higher speed to be safer.
riding down the mixed use pedestrian/bike pathway on what looks like a bike, going 45mph
Much as I hate to say it, problems like this have a way of solving themselves. The unfortunate thing is they usually take some innocent bystander down with them.
I think this is my biggest issue with ebikes.
People will be riding down the mixed use pedestrian/bike pathway on what looks like a bike, going 45mph next to the road with a 35mph speedlimit without peddaling.
I think there needs to be some regulation that makes it more visually apparent what is an electric bike and what is an electric motorcycle.
Sidewalk should have a 10mph speed limit, or no bikes allowed. I do ride an e-bike I can get up to 35mph (allegedly 28mph but with max assist and pedaling hard and I can, 35) but on a PEDESTRIAN SIDEWALK, with cars turning out of businesses and not looking, I go max 14mph, and walk the bike around people, walk it across intersections. It’s still faster than walking to work and I don’t arrive sweaty, slow is fine.
At the park, on the very wide path, of I am arriving for a Pokemon Go hour or something, I can get around the people fine but still go slow.
In the car road, though - say the sidewalk has pedestrians, I get in the road instead - I need the higher speed to be safer.
Much as I hate to say it, problems like this have a way of solving themselves. The unfortunate thing is they usually take some innocent bystander down with them.
Call me crazy, but maybe we should try to solve obvious problems before people are injured/maimed/killed.
OK, put a speed limit on the bikepath. 45 mph is dangerous no matter how you got up to speed.