Totally agree.
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again? where is your actual evidence of this?
What? How on earth can you say your proposed assistance increase would prevent "much faster bikes"?
I have to say a lot of what you have written makes sense. I like to think i can admit when I make a mistake and despite my good intentions this could have been done better. The space you have to state your case on the petition page is very limited. I had to shave several hundred words out of what i had written and it’s definitely not as clear why i made certain statements as i would have liked. As KeithR said he would reword it, and i would if that were possible, but it seems it cant be edited once its done.Spamming isn't the issue
I'd personally prefer the limit higher. but also see a lot of vastly less experienced/skilled/safe bicycle riders on our roads, especially in the city who I think 15mph assistance would be more than enough for.
I just don't see that you've put a very well thought out compelling case across in the petition.
ie. What has the US legislation to do with us at all? (did you even realise the US have many restrictions on where bikes and Emtbs can be ridden that we don't)
and where on earth did you get this from?
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again? where is your actual evidence of this?
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What? How on earth can you say your proposed assistance increase would prevent "much faster bikes"?
I just think you should have spent a lot more time time actually researching the subject and a lot more time coming up with better reasoning preferably with some actual proof behind your claims and written it more betterly.
As it stands even if it ever does get to parlaiment, some old dude who knows nothing about bikes is going to read out your badly thought out proposition and the rest of the house who live in london and probably see cyclists as a red light jumping nuisance will vote to say... No.
Yeah. this is what I was meaning. with such a short number of words it really needed a lot more time, input and experience in drafting to cover the proposal well.
Yeah, but you can wash wasted tootpaste down the drain. Which I fear is what will happen in this case even if by some miracle it gets those 100000 squeezes
Totally agree , leave well alone, the limit on mine is fine for me. If you want more get a trials bike or scrambler.
Totally agree a few times on the road etc I would like a bit more but I can live with it . As you say access in my area of Scotland wide open never meet anyone unless you are on the manmade runs. Burma road freewheel down at 50mph if your balls are big enough
Fully agree. All an increased limit will do is give the environmentalists and non-emtb trail users more ammunition to restrict MTB trail access. If you're on trails where you can do more that 25kph on uphills where assistance is typically required you probably should look for more challenging trails. On flats and downhills you can easily pedal over the the 25kph limit if required so no additional assistance required. It would appear that most individuals requesting higher speeds are using their MTB as a city commuter bike. Perhaps there should be a new classification of ebikes restricted to road use only with laws made specifically for them.
There are various classifications ie. mopeds & s-pedelecs that would effectively fit that description. Trails with applicable & variable limits that are clearly defined & signposted would probably be best. The variable limits logically would be based on many individual local factors.
It would be hard to define and enforce speed limits on trails. The question is where do you draw the line, general speed limits are a good reference some think they should be higher some lower. Your "marginal difference" represents a 20% increase, not really marginal when you look at it that way. There has to be a balance. My main concern is giving fuel to the anti-emtb guys in saying "see the emtb guys just want more speed" I'm not saying their arguments make sense but they are currently a bigger voice. Losing access to trails would certainly not be progress. If you want to go faster just derestrict the bike.
It's marginal whichever way you look at it. Just because the limit is 30 doesn't mean that everybody rides at 30 all places, all times - in most places there would be little to no effect at all. There are many trails around here where there are no people & to be limited to a speed equal to or even lower than I can peddle on a non electro is nonsensical.
Any chance we could have a link to an MP letter to send? I know a some petitions have this. Not sure how its done, but would be very useful.
Not in a million years. Just encouraging folk to show off .
Yes I can hear it now ,all stop on Covid and brexit let's get on with the Shite petitions. Join the line
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