Adventure Cycling Association Forum
Bicycle Travel => Urban Cycling => Topic started by: Slow Lane on November 02, 2016, 05:28:00 pm
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Here in NYC, bike lanes are often multi-purpose, including speedways for E-bike delivery folk or just lazy riders. I love the uphill bridge crossers pedaling at 5 rpm, but going 25 mph! Anyway, my feeling is that if it has a throttle, it should not be in a bike lane. What's the view from the "real world?"
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Doesn't bother me. But I'm sure that logical intelligence must remain that faster bikes on the left and slower on right. Driving my hybrid bike (http://www.bicycle-guider.com/best-entry-level-hybrid-bike/)daily it's quite annoying problem not to go faster if I want :-\
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Guess I am not too up to date on E bikes. I assumed their top speed was 20-25 mph. High but normal pedal bike speeds. They were not mopeds. But the E bikes you see are essentially mopeds going 30+ mph? Mopeds and bikes should not be sharing a bike lane. I don't like to share the bike trails with walkers and dog walkers when I am on my bike.
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In Europe, where e-bikes are much more common, they are allowed on bike paths/routes as far as I have seen.
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In Europe, where e-bikes are much more common, they are allowed on bike paths/routes as far as I have seen.
Yes, my cousin in Holland now has one, but there the riding skills are higher. In my dense urban habitat there is possibly more competition for space.
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Guess I am not too up to date on E bikes. I assumed their top speed was 20-25 mph. High but normal pedal bike speeds. They were not mopeds. But the E bikes you see are essentially mopeds going 30+ mph? Mopeds and bikes should not be sharing a bike lane. I don't like to share the bike trails with walkers and dog walkers when I am on my bike.
Many are indeed what I think of as a moped, but electric.
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An e-bike is a bike with a motor. Also called a Motorbike. Motorbikes should.stay away from bike paths. Dangerous things to share a bike path with particularly in the bike-share towns where an e-bike is typically ridden by inexperienced kids or drunken tourists. As a cyclist I put e-bikes right up there with RVs....