Me. I’ve seen too many kids nearly knocking people over, flying through busy intersections without looking, tearing around blind corners, and generally terrorizing my neighborhood. They’re the perfect combination of immature and fast.
How do they feel about electric scooters?
Meh, as long as they’re not blowing through intersections and almost causing accidents, they’re okay.
overlap between people who hate this and people who hate bikers in general.
Probably a very big overlap, but at least normal bicycles aren’t as efficient at facilitating teen idiocy.
Obviously irresponsible riding should be discouraged or penalized. But imagine the same people driving cars and you’ll see why we don’t want to discourage e-bikes.
There was a nyt article a while back about the increased incidence of teenagers being seriously harmed while riding ebikes. The gist of it was with the class 3 bike they were spending more time at higher speeds, on unsafe roads, and making the usual poor teenager decisions.
I didn’t come away from the article feeling like teenagers shouldn’t get ebikes, but that there needs to be education about safe ridership. When you start consistently going as fast as a motorcycle, you need to start taking safety gear seriously.
What people are against teenagers riding e-bikes?
How do they feel about electric scooters?
I’m going to need to see the overlap between people who hate this and people who hate bikers in general.
Me. I’ve seen too many kids nearly knocking people over, flying through busy intersections without looking, tearing around blind corners, and generally terrorizing my neighborhood. They’re the perfect combination of immature and fast.
Meh, as long as they’re not blowing through intersections and almost causing accidents, they’re okay.
Probably a very big overlap, but at least normal bicycles aren’t as efficient at facilitating teen idiocy.
Obviously irresponsible riding should be discouraged or penalized. But imagine the same people driving cars and you’ll see why we don’t want to discourage e-bikes.
There was a nyt article a while back about the increased incidence of teenagers being seriously harmed while riding ebikes. The gist of it was with the class 3 bike they were spending more time at higher speeds, on unsafe roads, and making the usual poor teenager decisions.
I didn’t come away from the article feeling like teenagers shouldn’t get ebikes, but that there needs to be education about safe ridership. When you start consistently going as fast as a motorcycle, you need to start taking safety gear seriously.
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