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Debbie's Servant
Imagine the uproar if highways were opened up to non-motorized vehicles like bicycles. .
Did you mean interstates?
Bicycles are allowed on highways.
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Imagine the uproar if highways were opened up to non-motorized vehicles like bicycles. .
Did you mean interstates?
Bicycles are allowed on highways.
Did you mean interstates?
Bicycles are allowed on highways.
Wow. Must be scary every day for you. Again, what it this dramatically awful place in which you live?
No it’s not scary at all. It’s highly annoying and sometimes dangerous with close calls and near misses with e-bikes. They are motorized vehicles and don’t belong on trails intended for non-motorized usage.
So what does the law in your state say, and how about the ordinances in your city and/or county?
Until about eighteen months or so ago they weren’t legally allowed on paths (but riders used them there anyway.) But the aforementioned industry lobbying group succeeded in quietly getting the law changed to allow use of these motorized vehicles anywhere a non-motorized bicycle is permitted.
I've seen bicycles on interstates here in Montana. .
E-Bike hate?
Comparing E-Bike to gasoline motorcycle
E-Motorcycles are a better comparison it would seem. Those Zero E-Motorcycles look pretty good as well.
Might be able to put baseball cards on the spokes of a E-Bike to remove the “stealth” factor
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Back to usage on designated park trails, bicycling, walking, jogging and such. The trails I use are posted, no motorized equipment. And, as I earlier posted, they're out on the trails here. And they're moving right along. Almost like, zo-o-o-ooooom. The fat tires can be heard coming from behind. Hope they got insurance.
It's dangerous enough with multiple use trails. Families and such on weekends. Strollers, hot wheels sometimes blocking the paths. Which is fine as long as all are careful. Have no idea where electric bicycles will be categorized. It would seem they're a motorized vehicle?
I took a snapshot- that doesn’t want to upload
MSRP- $4,724
Bass Pro Discount- $420
Included options- rack and fenders- $130
Final price- $4,434.
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Trigger warning - this is a curmudgeon posting:
I hate to see these E-bikes set up with trail capable fat knobbies. It makes it too tempting to actually take these 300 lb machines onto hiking/mountain bike trails - a lot of weight for these sorts of trails to bear, not to mention the potential for excessive speed.
Hopefully anyone who rides one will have the good sense to stick to fire roads and gravel.
Some roadway terminology is weird. I live on a two lane road in Texas designated Texas Highway 118. In Texas it is designated and called a highway. To our north about 100 or so miles is US Interstate Highway 10, generally designated and called Interstate 10 or I-10. In California I-10 would be called "the 10." In many other locales I-10 would be called a highway, but Texas Highway 118 would be called something or other but not called a highway. The Texas nomenclature is the same as I found in Iowa and Kansas when we lived there and I believe is the same as AKBeemer finds in Montana and Alaska.
These don't weigh 300 pounds unless they have a 250 pound person them.