This can be a promotional video for the Transfer Can V-60 electrical crap-mobile, which might go over 30 American Freedom Miles™ Per Hour, or [?] Socialist Kilometers Per Workday*:
*[One (1) Socialist Workday ≈ One (1) American Freedom Hour™]
To display its capabilities, the corporate reveals it in use on a woodland path:
In addition to on an city bike path:
But at no level do they present it ON THE GODDAMN STREET WHERE IT BELONGS. See, we used to get how motorbikes are imagined to work–or no less than the advertising and marketing individuals did:
Again then you definately met the nicest individuals on a Honda. However now you meet the most important assholes on a bit of Amaz*n e-crap. I imply have a look at this fool:
And this moronic machine is an affront to bicycles and bikes alike:
I point out this specific crap-cycle as a result of in line with Streetsblog it’s the mannequin that killed a lady in Brooklyn lately (or, extra precisely, it’s rider(s) did):
The sufferer was getting off a bus when she was hit:
The bike lane alongside Flushing shares sidewalk area with pedestrians, who should cross paths with cyclists to achieve a bus cease at North Elliot Place. The e-bike riders, a 41-year-old man driving with a 39-year-old girl on the again, had been taken to the hospital in steady situation. Police officers mentioned neither had been arrested. Their e-bike remained on the scene of the crash, which remained beneath investigation.
The town has been cracking down on riders of those crap-traptions, however it most likely received’t shock you to study it isn’t working:
Dan Kim, 40, who rode by the scene on an identical e-bike because the one within the crash, mentioned he’s been topic to a latest NYPD crackdown on e-bike riders.
“Final yr, I obtained like six [tickets] in in the future,” mentioned Kim. “They [the police] had been simply following me.”
Dan’s not getting the message, is he?
However let’s additionally pause to understand that sensible New York Metropolis innovation, the mix bike lane-bus cease:
I consider that is the exact same one the place the deadly crash occurred:
That is actually the peak of stupidity. Placing a bus cease within the path of fast-moving wheeled visitors is like inviting individuals over for a celebration and placing the bowl of combined nuts on the ground proper subsequent to the bathroom. It’s all maddening, however the issue with advocacy is that it’s assured to drive you loopy. At first you simply need to make issues higher, however finally you simply end up driving round and on the lookout for stuff to get upset about:
First they inform you we have to rebuild the entire metropolis as a result of it’s going to be underwater by 2100 because of local weather change, then when town begins rebuilding they complain that the detour isn’t handy sufficient:
Persevering with above Delancey Avenue on Clinton Avenue, I used to be pressured into the automotive lanes by ambulettes, shifting vans and Ubers blocking the bike lanes. After that, on Houston Avenue, the bike lane is squeezed between automotive lanes, and merging automotive visitors comes from each side.
There’s that phrase once more, although I preserve that with some notable exceptions (loss of life, taxes, a bus cease that forces disembarking passengers to step proper into bicycle visitors) no person can power you to do shit. Definitely no person can power you right into a automotive lane. Positive, no person needs to get off their bike and stroll it onto the sidewalk and across the impediment, however in case you actually had been afraid of your life as the types of people that use this phrase fake to be then you definately’d do it.
Then once more, as perennially vexed because the advocates could also be, they’ve obtained nothing on the anti-advocates. Think about Lucas Brunelle, who’s offended for causes solely he understands (one thing about wind and timber…?):
[I’m intrigued by he patch on his helmet. If I press it what happens?]
Sheesh, recover from your self, you’re simply one other retired man driving a bicycle in Florida.
