Am Sun, 22 Dec 2024 10:17:45 -0500 schrieb Catrike Ryder <
Soloman@old.bikers.org>:
On 22 Dec 2024 12:52:41 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
Now a hot issue it seems
https://nypost.com/2024/12/21/us-news/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-and-transit-boss-at-odds-over-e-bike-registration-bill/
Would that be all E bikes? Which does seem reactionary if so, though the >>mopeds by any other name really should be well classed as mopeds and >>regulated as such!
Roger Merriman
I have no problem with registering and licensing ebikes that can go
faster than 10 or 12 MPH,
This misses the point. It leads to a whole series of problems when
motorized bicycles are exempted from compulsory insurance, licensing and registration as if they were real bicycles. It gives the wrong
incentives. It is practically a carte blanche for all kinds of
manipulations. Last but not least, all of us who use real bicycles have
to pay for the damages caused by using these motorized vehicles.
There are reasons to treat motorized vehicles slower than walking speed
(up to 6 km/h /~3.7 mph in Germany) like non-motorized ones, for the
benefit of the handicapped. These reasons don't extend to motorized
vehicles easily doing 20 km/h (~ 12 mph) or even 25 km/h (15.m mh), like
in most of Europe. This quite recent change in the legal situation
primarily benefits those who want to sell motor vehicles and harms all
those who are now tempted to switch from bicycles to E-bikes.
and that should include registering and
licensing all the other e-vehicles I see on sidewalks, bike lanes and >multi-user-paths.
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