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Preachy badvocates ignore a lot

as they go about their self righteous

fear mongering ways.

But one fact glares, at least to me:

The tsunami of ebikes

descending on us proves that

if you remove all that nasty exercise

from bicycling,

Americans will ride.

All the infra,

all the scare mongering, and

all the tax $s wasted by the

Advocacy Industrial Complex

totally failed to increase

bicycle use for decades.

Max 2% Mode Share.

Infra didn't increase it,

didn't do shit for bicycling

but make it more hazardous.

NACTO failed.

CAlBike failed.

The LAB failed.

But cheap Chinese crap

dumped on our shores

put more butts on bike seats

than all of them combined.

Forget Mommy and Daddy

not letting little Johnny ride his

bicycle on the street.

Forget that they won't ride

themselves cause

"there's no safe place to ride."

Bicycle corrals at middle schools

are filled again-- with Ebikes.

Johnny will ride. All over town.

IF the little beggar

doesn't have to pedal.

Like his parents, Johnny is

fat and lazy. He (maybe not so

secretly) hates exercise.

He learned that from Mom and Dad.

And now they've discovered that

if Johnny wants to ride his ass off

Mom doesn't have to drive him.

To his friends house. The skate park.

The beach. Or to school.

Which means Mon can sleep in

or get to work with one less worry.

Except one: Johnny may be

terrorizing people on the sidewalks.

May be poppin' wheelies

through red lights.

May be riding barefoot

and helmetless all over town.

And that "E-bike"

they bought him on line,

without assembly,

without instructions,

without consumer warnings,

or even honest description of what it

actually is....

"Well, cool ebike you got there kid.

Does your Mom know it's a Motorcycle?"

Now suddenly, Surprise!

The bike biz cares about

Education.

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Apr 17, 2023·edited Apr 17, 2023

The people's expressed entitlement of autos in the public domain is the major problem. These people always forget that the only thing that gives them preference is money and "potential collateral damage".

Here is a hierarchy of the publics' transportational proiorities, if fair access is the goal:

1) Support the vulnerable! Allow those citizens that need to use mobility vehicles to be able to use them along with;

2) increased pedestrian access; reduce pedestrian restrictions;

3) public Transit;

4) bicycles_ nonmotorised > motorized. It is the electric motor that is the new drug.

5) legitimate business vehicles - trades, delivery etc.

6) the personal automobile.

I live in Canada. The list is absolutely reversed.

Every conscious, functioning and physically capable that demands electric assist for their non-discretionary travel is technically handicapped! The electric motor is the new drug.

I tell the teenagers riding their e-bikes that when they ask me why I don't use electric assist on my bike. is that I am not disabled". Even on greater than 10% hills!

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