Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 44,193
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From: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
By the way, there is a heavy trend in NYC to e-bikes for commercial delivery. I've heard that the guys pedaling bikes can't keep up with the number of deliveries the e-bike riders are making. To make money, you have to do a number of deliveries a day, and the speed of the e-bike helps a lot. It's a mess because e-bikes aren't classified as anything, not a moped, not a bicycle, not a motorcycle. So they're illegal. That's insane. Classify them! Requiring licensing and registration is probably a good idea. Then the e-bikes won't have quite as much advantage over pedal bikes. But things are getting dangerous with all the rambunctious riding of e-bikes. And then the police have blitzes where the bikes are confiscated, which is blow to people at the bottom of the economic ladder.