- cross-posted to:
- bicycles@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- bicycles@lemmy.ca
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34367979
More barriers to cycling means more cars which means more dead cyclists. Help us defeat this terrible anti-safety bill.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34367979
More barriers to cycling means more cars which means more dead cyclists. Help us defeat this terrible anti-safety bill.
Do you mean an ebike that is as slow as a pedal bike, and you have to move your feet round and round whilst it goes?
It feels like there might be a way to do this and save some expensive parts, and a whole letter of the alphabet.
UK requires bikes to be pedal assist anyway, pedal at 1w and the motor does the effort. Yes I am training for the tour de France sprints, that is why I am going so fast.
This is about registration for 20mph limited ebikes and 28mph limited pedal-assist bikes, with only 20mph pedal-assist staying free.
I don’t actually get why ebike vs. pedelec should make a huge difference. But the speed limits to require registration don’t actually look unreasonable high. At least I don’t know many people casually biking at 28mph (or even 20mph…).
Have you never heard of hills? Even with gears anyone can hit those speeds on a flat.
Ohh mph, that puts it at moped speeds then which makes more sense
Don’t be silly. We’ll engineer en expensive solution to hide it all in the downtube.
There are plenty of bikes like that already.
Not this expensive there aren’t
Not sure about that but Ride1up makes an affordable one. There are definitely multiple expensive ones out there too though I don’t remember their names.