
Originally Posted by
Orville
So-called e-Bikes. They are, in point of fact, electric scooters that generally can cruise at about 40 kmh, though newer ones can get up to 60. These things get to be classed as "bicycles" because some genius stuck two pedals on them in a place where only someone riding bitch could use them. They will keep to the curb lane, which is good. But there slow speed and wide design (like 250 cc Honda) makes them an impediment to traffic on ALL but residential streets. So traffic backs up behind them as cars and trucks are forced to wait for room to maneuver around them. Then, at the next traffic light, they will cruise up along the curb to the front of the line, and force the entire process to start all over again. Worse still, if you deliberately pull next to the curb to prevent these shenanigans, they will just pull onto the sidewalk and cruise up to the lights that way. my wife regularly wishes she had a disintegration ray to use on bad drivers . . . I would start with ALL e-bikes.