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10-24-19, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by livedarklions

Longer you go at 30 mph, the higher the likelihood you're going to hit something at 30 mph. And if you don't understand why speed matters so much, try playing around with this:

https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calcu...cs/kinetic.php

I never said speed didn't matter. What I said was the longer you can maintain that speed is irrelevant. If the 200 pound guy on the 16 pound bike happens to hit a pedestrian during the 30 seconds he is traveling at 30MPH, it's going to do just as much or more damage as the 160 pound guy on the 40 pound e-bike doing the same speed. The fact he can't sustain that for a long time isn't going to make it hurt any less.

If people want to say no bikes of any kind should go 30MPH on the street or MUP, I'm fine with that. But if you say it's fine for me to go as fast as I want but not the person on the e-bike, then I have to disagree.

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