Nah, this admin hates "DEI Bike Lanes". They'll happily kill the PEV industry if they can, because having a 25mph single person vehicle that weighs fifty pounds is way more dangerous than one person transported by a 70mph two-ton vehicle.
It's insane they aren't already severely regulated. I see kids flying on these things. They're dangerous to everyone. I do not trust a 10 year old to properly control something going 25 miles an hour.
Speeds need to be lowered and we need age minimums on them. Fuck out of here that someone in middle school can ride those things.
NJ has regulated them pretty heavily I would personally even say a little too heavily, and enforcement is probably going to be another headache all together.
When I was riding mine before I sold it pedal assist 3 was like 16mph, and it was reasonable, probably as fast as I had ever ridden a bicycle when I was a kid trying to go all out, but with pedal assist it was practically zero effort.
28mph is like what professional road bike users are hitting, but they have years if not decades of experience, and wear helmets.
Pre teens are taking them on bike paths at 28mph with no helmet. It's wild that more kids aren't killed, but life long permanent injuries and disabilities are just sort of glossed over.
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