In 6 days, the NY Times has run 4 articles about e-bikes -- all negative.
A few other stories the paper might consider:
🔹 E-bikes pollute far less than even electric cars
🔹 Compared to autos, e-bikes pose minimal risk to other people
🔹 Unlike cars, e-bikes provide exercise
What seatpost sorcery is this? I don't do too much mountain biking, so I did a double take today when I saw this #ebike seatpost rising after a guy passed me. Are these common on #ebikes? #cycling
😞 15yo victim riding on the left-side sidewalk (as one would, given the traffic Engineer's design of one-way painted bike gutters on each edge of a 5-lane stroad)
Might have just slow-rolled from behind a building, drivers definitely rolling 5mph past the stop sign while looking left for cars. This is NOT #BikeHelmets or #eBikes, it's a failure of #trafficEngineers' design & leadership to demand that typical aren't-we-all #drivers behavior doesn't risk murdering kids.
bike check / mountain check for the yuba #supercargo with the little #hillTopper#eBikes kit. Rode from Barbur up Terwilliger to downtown, around with the @bikeloudpdx#pdxBikes#eBike policy ride, and back out Barbur from 1st. The battery indicator was red (of blue, green, red) when I got home but it never faded on the long steady climb out Barbur, 10 minutes for 2.5 miles with 200+ft elevation (ODOT, get your cars off of our essential historically-streetcar-graded bikeways)
Heard today at the platform that #escooters are banned on #UK#trains but #ebikes are not. This seems to be due to the recent highly publicised incidents of the scooters catching fire. Can't the same happen to ebikes?
Feels reactionary to me. We should be encouraging more electric options for transport not less. I hope this is temporary.
Looking for #ebike recommendations by for my short wife. She’s 4’10” (on a tall day she says), and is looking for something to get her around the city.
A lot of e-bikes tend to be big, heavy clunkers with big batteries. I’ve been looking at the #tern vectron, #BromptonBike c series, #pedego boomerang, and a few other folding and micro bikes.
Kids on bikes getting hit with cars is a problem with how we (don't) regulate cars and traffic Engineers. It's got nothing to do with #eBikes, whether the bike is electric or not.
We don't know many of the details in this case, but the rising incidence of e-bike injuries and fatalities calls for a closer look at how these are regulated. More⬇️ @FortuneMagazinehttps://tinyurl.com/48nmd2wt #bicycle#ebikes#safety
This GMAC tandem is my first big hub motor and wow, this thing goes! I still need to test it on a steep hill fully loaded but it just delivers power where the bbs02 on my edgerunner would have me so busy managing shifting. I have 250 and 350W 36V geared hub motor #eBikes, but did not expect the amount of thrust (this is the "slow" winding in a 20in wheel so it has all of the torques.)
Upgrading my recumbent to electric night 1: motor is installed! Still some tweaking to do - re-aligning the brake pads, namely. But, that’s a good start.
Yes, I did spend extra on a black motor with black spokes. I also got a black motor controller. I need the color scheme to match.
The NJ legislature just passed a bill requiring low-speed electric bicycles to be registered with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission and to be insured.
Somewhere, either a fossil fuel lobbyist or an insurance industry lobbyist got his wings.
“Bicycle deaths in New York City hit a 23-year high in 2023, according to new data from the NYC Department of Transportation. Of the 30 cyclists who died last year, 23 were riding electric bikes. “
So I looked up the article, and that is all it says; that’s the entire thing. Nothing about how they died, just that they died.
It seems that the #NYTimes is having a War on Bikes, especially #eBikes, and I wonder why.
E-BIKE SAFETY: California Assembly Bill 1946 (Boerner Horvath) required the California Highway Patrol to develop statewide safety standards and training programs for users of e-bikes, on or before Sept 1, 2023.
Can everyone on #BikeTooter agree whether we're using the plural form or the singular form for hashtags? Or can Mastodon core give us a feature that enables smooshing hashtags together if one is the plural form of the other?
In Bloomberg CityLab, I wrote about a new study that explores the power (and limits) of e-bike rebates.
TLDR: E-bike incentives can compel more people to ride (especially those with moderate/low incomes), unlocking benefits for public health, street efficiency, and urban quality of life. But they're an inefficient way to fight climate change.
Seeking volunteers for 2-hr shifts with BikeLoudPDX.
Show off your #cargoBikes! Answer questions on hauling kids & large loads #CarryShitOlympics#eBikes
The UPP battery I got for the tandem #BikeFriday project has been okay, afaict (or might be part of the hangup that happens in regen braking), but I hate that it has this XLR plug with that fiddly sliding plastic cover, also seems to lack a fuse, unlike the previous generation of generic downtube pack (dolphin) that had a barrel connector charge port. I can see the argument against the barrel connector, but why have a 3-pin port and not include a thermistor? #eBikes