how do you manage so many riders behaving badly and ruining it for everyone else?
Carry a jousting pole and hit them with it or stick it in their spokes. j/k
Seriously though, it’s a good question. I have a class 1 ebike I use for exercise, recreation, and commuting. I always use my bell when passing people, I always yield to pedestrians, and I don’t go 18-20mph near pedestrians. I would guess – based on my personal experiences – that at least 80% of ebike riders don’t follow these laws and considerations.
There isn’t anyone enforcing these rules on trails, so change only happens once people get hurt by the jerks on ebikes. Then it is going to be the ebikes getting banned instead of the actual jerks being dealt with. Are we going to hire trail cops to ticket dangerous bike riders?
Or is someone going to get fed up and stick a jousting pole into some jerk’s spokes.
Never mind a lack of enforcement for e-bike riders, we have MOTORCYCLES on our trails and gas-powered scooters and dirt bikes with “Ebike” plates riding wherever they want.
Carry a jousting pole and hit them with it or stick it in their spokes. j/k
Seriously though, it’s a good question. I have a class 1 ebike I use for exercise, recreation, and commuting. I always use my bell when passing people, I always yield to pedestrians, and I don’t go 18-20mph near pedestrians. I would guess – based on my personal experiences – that at least 80% of ebike riders don’t follow these laws and considerations.
There isn’t anyone enforcing these rules on trails, so change only happens once people get hurt by the jerks on ebikes. Then it is going to be the ebikes getting banned instead of the actual jerks being dealt with. Are we going to hire trail cops to ticket dangerous bike riders?
Or is someone going to get fed up and stick a jousting pole into some jerk’s spokes.
Never mind a lack of enforcement for e-bike riders, we have MOTORCYCLES on our trails and gas-powered scooters and dirt bikes with “Ebike” plates riding wherever they want.