Originally Posted by
BigAura
Sorry I've seen ZERO reports and/posts from disabled persons as to how they use eBikes.
The Electric Bike Report has lots of reports about the tech and shows able bodied people who choose to be lazy. Video after video shows regular people & children barely pedaling and going fast. This whole industry is motor-biking plane and simple. Sickening waste because these unfit folks could be getting real exercise and be less of a burden on our healthcare system. I'm sure that their fitness trackers are congratulating them on a what a great job they are doing cycling.
It's actually a lot worse than I thought. There's an entire industry that will be impossible to unwrap. The loopholes they have created are more than likely already entrenched because they are making money. This is very sad to see.
Never said anything about disabled persons... I said people who need just a little help, more people would use bicycles with a little help. and it's true, I bet bicycle use in Europe has gone up since E-Bikes became legal bicycles. So it's working well there, and they don't have people riding those bicycles without PEDALING AND I MEAN
REALLY PEDALING, why? Because then they would go nowhere fast...
As for here in N. America How many times do I need to say, Yes,
it's a fail, and it's a fail for exactly the reasons you are saying, overpowered motors. But the basic principle would work here too if it wasn't for the lax E-Bike laws, thus It's a fail because of the lax laws allowing for too much "assist" that isn't an assist anymore but it's really a motor bike, BUT, I REPEAT. It wouldn't be a fail even in N. America if we had the same rules as in Europe, IMO...
