Merry Christmas to the Dallas Mavericks! Players, staff receive electric Mercedes bicycles from Luka Doncic
I wonder if the vertically advantaged got custom fits for their bikes.
Merry Christmas from Luka: Mavericks, staff receive electric Mercedes bicycles from Doncic
Why 2023 was the year of the e-bike and not the self-driving car
(How David Zipper comes up with a fresh article on biking a couple of times a week is really beyond me)
"All signs indicate that a city full of e-bikes would be safer, healthier, cleaner, and less congested than one dominated by cars—no matter how they are driven."
@paulknightly Never buying another car. #ebikes and rentals will do me!
Someone should make a primer on #ebikes. It would include:
* Why hills aren't an issue
* Why weather isn't an issue
* Why age isn't an issue
* Why cargo isn't an issue
* Why you can ride them in big cities
* Why you can ride them in little towns
* Why you can ride them in the countryside
‘They pay for themselves’: why more Australian families are ditching cars for e-bikes
"In 2017 when states and territories adopted uniform laws on the use of e-bikes, about 9,000 were sold in Australia. Since then sales have doubled each year...While car trip costs include petrol and tolls, “e-bike trips cost in the cents”, Bourke says, noting the average bike costs about 15 cents to charge up."
‘They pay for themselves’: why more Australian families are ditching cars for e-bikes
Yale, Fordham, and Boston College banning #ebikes on campus
"The two main issues at the heart of the debate around e-bikes and e-scooters on campuses relate to fire safety and collisions with pedestrians."
Yeah, let's make sure they stay in cars because that will be so much safer 🙄
Why more college campuses are starting to ban electric bikes
@forpeterssake @kairyssdal "People who had cars fare better on multiple different factors than people who didn’t. They tended to move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods, places with lower poverty rates. They were twice as likely to find a job and four times more likely to remain employed."
I wonder if they would have seen a similar effect if they'd studied people with #ebikes instead.
From David Zipper on X:
In 6 days, the NY Times has run 4 articles about e-bikes -- all negative.
A few other stories the paper might consider:
🔹 E-bikes pollute far less than even electric cars
🔹 Compared to autos, e-bikes pose minimal risk to other people
🔹 Unlike cars, e-bikes provide exercise
EBike incentive programs in North America
Manhattan Beach Police Department: "Giving a 13 year old an electric bike that exceeds 30 mph, that lacks required safety equipment, and a driver without any sort of understanding of the rules of the road is just a recipe for disaster."
Hey MBPD, want to know what's really a recipe for disaster? Giving a 19-year-old a two-ton pickup truck that exceeds 70 mph.
'We tried to warn you' say police during crackdown on illegally fast electric bikes
New Orleans: B-. Excellent ebike share program, and the Lafitte Greenway is a gem. But the French Quarter is just about unnavigable: street signs are a rarity, half the roads are tooth-rattling bumpy, and everything is one-way. Some of the roads are too small to accommodate a bike AND a car, so you have to wait in a line of ten cars trying to get through.
Mitt Romney doesn't understand induced demand.
"I'm not going to spend money on buying e-bikes for people like me who have bought them — they're expensive," he said. "Removing automobile lanes to put in bike lanes is, in my opinion, the height of stupidity, it means more cars backing up, creating more emissions."
via @mobileharv Columbus, OH City Council Approves Funding for E-Bike Rebate Program
"Columbus residents eager to know how much of a discount the city’s new program will offer and what the eligibility requirements will be will have to wait for those details to be revealed.
“I know folks are probably very excited about their e-bike rebate, but we’ll officially launch the program in spring.” Barroso de Padilla said at the council meeting."