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[tartanhaggis7]

I am an experienced cyclist MANY miles travelled MANY sore backsides 😂😂 ive tryed electic bikes & i found them hard to handle with the acceleration !!! so i think that Edinburgh's decision to hire ONLY electic with NO training possibly NO experience of cycling & with NO helmet ( tourist ) irresponsible unfortunately leading to MANY injuries & DEATH

The ‘e-bikes’ that zoom past me tend to be the illegal powerful ones favoured by the food delivery guys and which the police choose to ignore. This sort of bike is becoming more popular in the Netherlands (much to the annoyance of regular cyclists and users of legal e-bikes) and they surely contribute to a rise in accidents and deaths. One good thing about (legal) e-bikes is that they enable people who would previously have had to give up cycling through age and infirmity to continue cycling. Inevitably, more elderly cyclists in the Netherlands will mean more cycling deaths, some through dying of natural causes while cycling, others will happen as older people are more likely than younger ones to perish in a tumble. I think a lot of older people in the Netherlands would rather take the risk of e-bike cycling than vegetating at home, and I’d probably do the same.

I still say that 15mph is too fast particularly on pavements and mixed paths. Why are people needing to go so fast? Their reactions aren't up it especially those that haven't ridden a bike before.
I worry about being hit by a heavy e-bike on a mixed path.

The whole point of bikes is that they’re faster than walking! The faster they go, the safer they are in terms of keeping up with traffic, so reducing the maximum assistance speed would be daft.