vincent
Well-Known Member
i ride the loop a lot here and fast road bikers are really unsafe and there are a lot of them
Yesterday i was trying to find the speed limit for the loop and fell down a rabbit hole of research trying to find that and came across the official wording on the site about the ban on ebikes
to say i was shocked would be an understatement
the pima county people are REALLY REALLY anti ebike
the city of tucson and city of oro valley have passed laws/ordinances? that say the ebikes are legal on their sections
but pima says on theirs that this is not true- their stance is they overule both cities and say they are actively going to try and get laws passed to make ebikes illegal everywhere
i really thought since it was never enforced and that literally every ride out there 35-50% of the bikes any given day are ebikes that they were not enforcing it and moving toward allowing them
this could not be further from the truth
what is crazy is if you look at the loop fb page there was an announcement in june saying ebikes are illegal on the loop- there are hundreds of comments and 98% of them were in support of ebikes, even from people that dont ride but walk etc on the loop, they all said ebikes are fine it is the road bikers!!
another crazy thing is in 2019 they also wrote out another announcement about them being illegal and again hundreds of comments and it was 98% in favor of ebikes which surprised me
wrote some of the news organizations here and so far one has contacted me
i think doing a change.org petition is maybe a good idea but wondering what to call it- would like suggestions
also wondering how to get things changed at the county level, we managed to get red light cameras banned here with some kind of ballot - voted them out
i dont know what the legal angles are to try and force a change- any retired lawyers that could help with input on that please
the way this is worded reads to me that if a road biker hits me doing 25-30 miles an hour through here that no matter what i am legally liable because i am not supposed to be on the loop anywhere
it is not a matter of getting tickets which they say they are going to do, i dont care about a ticket
i do care about a lawsuit
i feel like the county is waiting for there to be any accident involving an ebike and use it an example for banning us
this seems like a slam dunk for any accident lawyer wanting to make money, no matter what happened we are liable
i am super upset my tax money is going to be used for pima county to fight the city of tucson about this
we must have a big group of road bikers who are anti ebike in the management of the loop
Yesterday i was trying to find the speed limit for the loop and fell down a rabbit hole of research trying to find that and came across the official wording on the site about the ban on ebikes
to say i was shocked would be an understatement
the pima county people are REALLY REALLY anti ebike
the city of tucson and city of oro valley have passed laws/ordinances? that say the ebikes are legal on their sections
but pima says on theirs that this is not true- their stance is they overule both cities and say they are actively going to try and get laws passed to make ebikes illegal everywhere
i really thought since it was never enforced and that literally every ride out there 35-50% of the bikes any given day are ebikes that they were not enforcing it and moving toward allowing them
this could not be further from the truth
what is crazy is if you look at the loop fb page there was an announcement in june saying ebikes are illegal on the loop- there are hundreds of comments and 98% of them were in support of ebikes, even from people that dont ride but walk etc on the loop, they all said ebikes are fine it is the road bikers!!
another crazy thing is in 2019 they also wrote out another announcement about them being illegal and again hundreds of comments and it was 98% in favor of ebikes which surprised me
wrote some of the news organizations here and so far one has contacted me
i think doing a change.org petition is maybe a good idea but wondering what to call it- would like suggestions
also wondering how to get things changed at the county level, we managed to get red light cameras banned here with some kind of ballot - voted them out
i dont know what the legal angles are to try and force a change- any retired lawyers that could help with input on that please
the way this is worded reads to me that if a road biker hits me doing 25-30 miles an hour through here that no matter what i am legally liable because i am not supposed to be on the loop anywhere
it is not a matter of getting tickets which they say they are going to do, i dont care about a ticket
i do care about a lawsuit
i feel like the county is waiting for there to be any accident involving an ebike and use it an example for banning us
this seems like a slam dunk for any accident lawyer wanting to make money, no matter what happened we are liable
i am super upset my tax money is going to be used for pima county to fight the city of tucson about this
we must have a big group of road bikers who are anti ebike in the management of the loop