all yall folk running hamburger software: 25kph is around 15mph and change. 4 minute miles. Really fast sprints.
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The answer is simple: ban teens
Just wait until all those teen grow up and figure out that old farts on social media are responsible.
Yeah, they can wipe thier own ass when they are in a care home!
Just gotta keep making the world as hostile as possible to teenagers.
Because the school to prison pipeline can only do so much
This is such a gross oversimplification, it's insane. They could also join the military.
In my community a couple of years ago some middle aged guy assaulted a teen who was riding his Surron (non peddle ebike/motorcycle) in the park. Was he speeding? Probably, but that doesn't excuse what that twat did. For the most part kids on these types of bikes aren't the problem.
Our real problem has been pre teens on 110cc dirt bikes. They ride in groups and have been literally terrorizing people. I talked to one lady who had to put her horse down when they scared it and caused it to break a leg. Then they laughed at her and rode off. The police can't catch them, though they've tried, but not that hard since they could actually do some simple detective work if they wanted to
"Get off your phones and meet people your age in real life!" "Wait not like that!"
Feels like kids can't win these days.
Can't wait for the e-bike gang wars of '26.
Waaaaaarriors! Come out to playay!
“We really recognise the tremendous opportunity that ebikes can offer for getting anyone, including younger people, from A to B, independently,” McLean said. “[It] is a really, really positive thing that connects them to education, to work, to social things and communities as well.
“There’s lots of benefits that go along with them, but when we have really high powered ebikes and people driving them dangerously and without helmets, then they certainly pose a significant risk.”
Seems like a pretty balanced take honestly.
If it goes faster than 28 mph, has a motor more powerful than 1000w, or lacks usable pedals, it's not an e-bike at all. People riding these things get people who ride actual electric bicycles fucked over though, which is unfortunate because electric assisted bicycles open up a lot of opportunities for people who are elderly or have other physical disabilities.
I am all for making e-moto and e-bikes legally distinct but punishing cyclists because of e-moto bullshit is a stupid decision. Also, parents who buy their kids motorcycles with no training, safety gear, or evaluation of their child's judgement should be held accountable instead of the people who are just trying to get to work on an e-bike.
Yeah I completely agree. This exact issue kind of triggers me, and I did draft a longer diatribe complaining about exactly this, which I didn't post.
I have an assortment of bikes including e-bikes, all of which I love equally. They're truly amazing machines.
If you purchase a $200 k-mart commuter, and a $400 wheel hub motor and battery from temu, then perch a 12 year old precariously in the saddle that's not an e-bike it's an unregistered unregulated electric motorbike. This type of set up can easily achieve 50km/h with the majority more like 60km/h and some exceeding 80km/h.
The bikes just aren't built for this kind of stress, and the people riding them don't have a reasonable understanding of the risks. They scream around on bike paths weaving around kids and babies in strollers.
The current rules here in west aus (as I understand them) merely allow pedal assist up to 25 km/h. Critically, that means the bike can allow you to switch between modes providing more or less assistance, but no throttle. Additionally a lot of the temu bikes require you to move the pedals but do not require you to provide any effort - the pedals moving is more like a switch that allows the motor to engage.
The basic problem is that existing legislation just isn't sufficient. Guilting parents isn't enough. There needs to be better laws, and they need to be actively policed.
you expect other people commenting to actually read the article?
Let me rephrase: Australians concerned about children on vehicles that can go 25mph with no requirement for a license or training.
Wrong.
we have two issues
One is crusted old cumstains losing their shit about the presence of Visible Teenagers after the social media ban. They can go fuck 'emselves
The other issue is teens on illegal wattage ebikes that are souped up to 50/90kmph and ridden in areas not designed to have things at that speed tearing through them. Because of pedestrians, kids, horses, etc.
The issue is more that they sell 500-1000W ebikes that are not specced for road usage, only for riding on private ground - and then hand them to teenagers. As so often, the parents are the issue, not the teens. As so often, everyone will pay the price for it through stricter regulation.
25 kph, not mph. Which isn't very fast.
25kph is the legal speed limit for ebikes. It does not magically prevent them from going faster.
and it's not hard to get up to 40kph just using your legs and a hill without a motor. we've got a great hill that's steep enough to get up to 50kph, but i'm not quite brave enough for that.
No doubt, but that's not what is happening. Kids are doing 40 on the flat on their "ebike" and they don't look or indicate and they can't do 40km/h uphill so they slow down a lot unexpectedly.
There needs to be some kind of training and regulation.
There needs to be some kind of training and regulation.
I'd have it be part of the drivers ed, but i'm an old stick in the mud
I googled top e-bike speeds.
That's pretty close to my average speed and I'm just a commuter on a 30lb hardtail MTB with shitty infrastructure. I'd wager anyone who can ride a bike can easily go faster than that on a flat, even if they weren't a regular rider.
You can go 25mph and faster on a bicycle no problem, I reject the argument that e-bikes (not e-moto) are a significant danger. That's mostly cabrain propaganda that people who chose to stop thinking accept.
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A dude got up to 90mph on a bike just off his own steam before
I remember all the adverts when I was a kid telling me that if I got hit by a car at 30mph there was a 90% chance I'd live (this was the happy path of the advert). This is also cars ostensibly driven by licensed people.
E-bikes with a 25mph limiter are not a risk if we allow cars in the same space as pedestrians
25 kmph, that's about 15 mph.
Yeah sure, but we're not going to create laws just for Lance fucking Armstrong.
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I hope Australian kids annoy adults enough that this moral panic about social media dies from adults just giving up because kids resort to even more annoying behavior, that would be poetic justice.
Moral panic? Dude, social media is a fucking scourge. It's not some 80s Satanic panic bullshit. It seriously hurts kids.
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sounds like a good thing. man do i miss actually going out and meeting people. i mean, i can go out, but i'm mostly alone, idk where everyone else is, the world feels so empty, devoid of people in it
They're stuck in their screens. And the businesses that provided relief have mostly been dying and becoming too expensive.
Beware! The anti fun police are in effect!
Your throwing stick trick has boomeranged on us!
Nothing to do with social media, all to do with at what point and electric bicycle becomes an electric motorcycle and the lack of laws and regulations keeping up with it. It used to be easy if the thing was making a noise, due to petrol engine, it's a motorbike. It's happening in every country and it feels like Chinese manufacturers are making all the money whilst the rest of the world catches up.
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