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I really don't care that you're not interested in the topic. I DO CARE that you're trying to convince me I shouldn't be raising the subject matter because you claim the numbers of people who do this here are "smaller than a bump on a gnat's ass." What about the mom of a ten year old who is...

Amazingly, dozens or hundreds of people on this very site claim that the speed limitation is a safety measure, and many want it reduced further so the bikes will be "safer." As far as what people teach their kids, you should consider that they also teach by not teaching, and they sure do not...

The PDF? It's the same thing as the body of the post. If it's the body you can't read, it reads fine on my end.

As far as plans, I don't necessarily have any and don't personally care about e-bike speed limits since I am a fully aware rider and that will never change, and currently have a 28 mph limit. That's workable enough, though I don't like it. Personally I care about motor power for purpose of...

Sounds interesting...but how to be sure they're just being random? 5,5,5,5,5 isn't really random. It's certainly not the answers someone has to think about to give. Unless the tricky test has "correct" answers, and they are all five. I did a bunch of MMPI II's with random answers. I've had...

today's ebike riders that learned safe riding because they were totally responsible for their decisions, no, I don't think they will or do. But a kid raised all his life that he has a "safe" bike becasue it makes choices for him he no longer can learn from? If you are flying in a jet airliner...

But...but...he stated it in an alternative way so that it sounds scary. Pollsters wanting to see how dumb and reactionary people are have collected thousands of signatures to ban "Dihydrogen Monoxide" after informing them of all the ways that it can kill and the millions killed in...

And if you wind up married to her, the cost could be exponentially staggering compared to just wrecking your nice bike and having to buy another. You have a most excellent point, something should be done about bumping into people like that.

This thread is about the psychology of thinking something is safe because it has a built in device. It is not about whether any particular bike can go faster than 20 m.p.h. Of course they can. But a class two using throttle and not pedaling is in fact limited to 20 m.p.h. That doesn't make...

This is an older thread, but it best matches my subject matter. And things have developed since 2024. I've also attached a PDF. Yes, a few years ago I thought the one watt thing was not worth fussing over. But with new enforcement demands, and especially if the Safe Speeds Act passes and...

Here's a fundamental rule of statutory construction: "In the absence of a contrary indication, the masculine includes the feminine (and vice versa) and the singular includes the plural (and vice versa)". See Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts. I know it seems weird that laws don't...

Not arbitrarily, except of course for e-bikes with speed caps in the software. Fitness and the exact parameters of an ordinary bike have limits, of couse. But they are not artificial; they're baked in-- and the bike doesn't suddenly throw on the brakes, of course. Rode too fast and broke...

Time and again I see comments in support of software locked speed limits in e-bikes as a common safety measure. Psychology begs to differ. Similarly to the way leg muscles atrophy when they aren't used, reduced exercise of critical judgment making results in reduced ability. When the bike...

(EDIT): Sorry, Ken, I see I already made a similar post directed to you. I misremembered and thought I had only said these things in reponse to others. But perhaps this post says it better.) I generally agree with you, Ken, as having the most sensible grasp of the situation. But I have to...

KEN does not write like this (Context, Jabberwocky throwing Quixotic smartsy comments around): "As if any rational person would expect me to take you seriously. I see you have chosen the path of..... FUN!!! Mine command unto thee, most worthy surrogate leader, thou namedest Jabberwocky...

I'm sympathetic to your concerns. But your examples involve land belonging to the federal government. I explained that they have their own primary access and use jurisdiction. My arguments do not reach there and provide no relief. However, they are near bulletproof as applied to state...

Banning all bikes is political suicide. It is also likely to be unconstitutional under substantive due process considerations. Your history of bike advocacy could be put to good use with this subject matter because this is all about America's history and tradition of bicycle access and usage...

Yeah I never did understand those responses that begin with "I'm not going to bother responding..." Simplicity is best when it comes to law, women, and/or war, I have heard some say. I might've made it up, and have no link. I'm not entirely clear on which of those, you know, applies here, but...

As if any rational person would expect me to take you seriously. I see you have chosen the path of..... FUN!!! Mine command unto thee, most worthy surrogate leader, thou namedest Jabberwocky Focke-Wolfe¡ Quoteth I. "¡Arre! Rocinante!" Sadly, perhaps "¡Quieto! Rocinante," in your worldview...

I understand our society perfectly. In this case, a society legally illiterate even on boilerplate civics concepts. Allow me to introduce you to the "obscure federal commission" that most of us call "Congress" that you should have been educated about as a young child, and a law that is the...