The safety organisation VeiligheidNL estimates that 5,000 fatbike riders are treated in A&E [ i.e Accident & Emergency] departments each year, on the basis of a recent sample of hospitals. “And we also see that especially these young people aged from 12 to 15 have the most accidents,” said the spokesperson Tom de Beus.
Now Amsterdam’s head of transport, Melanie van der Horst, has said “unorthodox measures” are needed and has announced that she will ban these heavy electric bikes from city parks, starting in the Vondelpark. Like the city of Enschede, which is also drawing up a city centre ban, she is acting on a stream of requests “begging me to ban the fatbikes”.
Let’s give motorcycles with insane torque to children, What could go wrong?
Most of those even don’t need you to pedal (which where I live is a prerequisite for e-bikes).
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Also motors are limited to 250W which seriously limits the danger.
Mine is 750W still (from before laws were made, now illegal) and still can’t accelerate fast enough to be dangerous, but without my limiter the top speed is like 45 km/h.
You sound like someone not understanding they can absolutely be dangerous.
A college of mine was in a normal bicycle / rollerskate accident, he spent many months before walking well again and was away from work for several weeks.
You can be dangerous in traffic regardless of your vehicle… A bicycle can easily reach those speeds downhill, but you still apply the brakes because going 2x speed of everyone else is hazardous, no?
I don’t ride irresponsibly, and I’m not about spend 600€ to replace the motor when I can just limit it and drive responsibly. It’s up to the individual whether they wanna be a douchebag or not.
The problem is it’s impossible to know if what you say is really true, because a douchebag would say about the same thing.
Stay safe out there!