E-bikes remaining as vulnerable users.

[BoldonLad]

Riding at 15 mph on a road is too slow. It causes a hazard to cars

I do hope you don't have a driving licence

 

[Alex321]

Riding at 15 mph on a road is too slow. It causes a hazard to cars

Which means probably 70-80% of cyclists are "causing a hazard" according to you. And almost all cyclists as soon as you hit an uphill stretch.

That is really a rather ridiculous suggestion.

 

[Squirrel Chaser]

Which means probably 70-80% of cyclists are "causing a hazard" according to you. And almost all cyclists as soon as you hit an uphill stretch.

That is really a rather ridiculous suggestion.

Yep, shouldn't be on the roads , dangerous.
Go round a corner traveling twice as fast as the bike and boom there it is.
It's dangerous end of.
How more cyclists don't get run over is beyond me

 

[Squirrel Chaser]

I do hope you don't have a driving licence

Class 1
You try driving a lorry with stupid bikes on the road doing 15 mph

 

[Squirrel Chaser]

So do I, quite frequently. On downhills, or on the flat when I am pushing fairly hard. But I couldn't "easily" keep up 20mph while just "tootling around", and I don't believe many of us could.

And people riding e-bikes are less likely to be the type of young and fit individuals who could do so.

Go around 22- 25 mph on my trike and that has no motor other than me.

 

[welsh dragon]

Any bets on how long it will be before this thread is closed down?

 

[Squirrel Chaser]

Any bets on how long it will be before this thread is closed down?

It's a valid debate on how e bikes are classed.
I think they should go faster and remain as vulnerable users as cars these days never do the speed limit in a 20 mph zone

 

[Alex321]

Go around 22- 25 mph on my trike and that has no motor other than me.

Seriously?

On the flat, solo, for anything more than a few hundred yards?

If you can really do what you claim, then you are genuinely at the level of a pretty high standard competitive racing cyclist.

On a decent regular road bike, I could believe it. But a trike is inherently heavier and less aerodynamic. The effort required to keep up that speed is much higher than most could manage.

 

[Alex321]

Class 1
You try driving a lorry with stupid bikes on the road doing 15 mph

They aren't really going to notice the difference between a bike going at 15mph and one going at 20mph, except on the 20 limit roads.

 

[Squirrel Chaser]

Seriously?

On the flat, solo, for anything more than a few hundred yards?

If you can really do what you claim, then you are genuinely at the level of a pretty high standard competitive racing cyclist.

On a decent regular road bike, I could believe it. But a trike is inherently heavier and less aerodynamic. The effort required to keep up that speed is much higher than most could manage.

Wrong
A trike is faster all day long

 

[welsh dragon]

It's a valid debate on how e bikes are classed.
I think they should go faster and remain as vulnerable users as cars these days never do the speed limit in a 20 mph zone

They CAN go faster, just not with the help of a motor.

 

[Squirrel Chaser]

They CAN go faster, just not with the help of a motor.

Yep so when Im Doing 20 mph on my ebike in a 20 mph zone why do cars speed to overtake?

 

[Alex321]

Yep so when Im Doing 20 mph on my ebike in a 20 mph zone why do cars speed to overtake?

Because there are always car drivers who ignore speed limits.

 

[albion]

You do realise that having a driving license might gain an automatic ban for riding an untaxed, unregistered and uninsured emotorbike on the road.
A bigger fine too I imagine.

 

[welsh dragon]

Yep so when Im Doing 20 mph on my ebike in a 20 mph zone why do cars speed to overtake?

Probably for the same reason they would do it when someone on an ordinary bike is travelling at 20 mph.