I’d like to see heavier enforcement and punishment when people ride these electric motorbikes and e-bikes on non-share footpaths (the motorbike versions need to stay on the road alltogether). They all expect you to jump out of the bloody way too
smileedude on
If we have kids off them can we get a reasonable speed restriction on them so they can be safe to ride on 50 km/h streets? Our bike paths are not that well connected and to get anywhere you have to ride on the back streets to connect. They struggle to go any faster than 25 because of the extra weight. And 25 on a 50 road is too big of a speed differential. You just block traffic and get squeezed to the side when you need to pass parked cars.
If they could keep up with a road bike on a flat they would be far more functional and safer for commuting.
ObviousFeature522 on
THEY’RE ALREADY ILLEGAL! Guess it’s double-illegal now? The cops still won’t be bothered though outside of a couple of politically-motivated ‘blitz’ weekends so hey just keep doing whatever you want.
This is such an Australian-style response and it’s so pathetic. De jure banned, de facto allowed with the tacit understanding the government admits no liability.
HUMMEL_at_the_5_4eva on
Still yet to hear anything from this apparently, intensely bike-safety focused government, that does anything to address the key safety issue for bikes and pedestrians, being cars…
CBRChimpy on
* We’re banning social media for kids because kids should be outside playing with their friends.
* Wait no not like that!
Spud-chat on
> Western Australia has already imposed an age limit of 16 – and any child under 16 caught riding an ebike faces a $50 fine.
That’ll show them, a $50 fine!
When the bikes themselves cost a few thousand I’m sure bank of mum and dad will fork out a $50.
tubbyx7 on
a change written by complete numpties without a clue
Never seen a problem with a kid on legal ebikes. Every now and then on a mtb trail you get someone on a legal ebike who races up a hill and aggressively passes people getting up under their own steam, but ive never seen that with a kid who would be affected by these changes.
did we ever see gangs of kids on the legal 25kmh limited pedal assist causing traffic chaos at half the speed of the cars? So the entire problem is overpowered illegal bikes. Get ride of them and the rest of the issue goes away. 14 year old wants an ebike to get to school and around the neighbourhood, existing, legal ebikes arent the problem for that
bigmacca86 on
Need to bring in licence plates and compulsory insurance for Ebikes. The number of times I’ve almost had accidents due to idiots riding them is insane.
pissedoffjesus on
That age should be 18.
Puzzleheaded_Pay276 on
So now we will have cops chasing the young ones to check on their age
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I’d like to see heavier enforcement and punishment when people ride these electric motorbikes and e-bikes on non-share footpaths (the motorbike versions need to stay on the road alltogether). They all expect you to jump out of the bloody way too
If we have kids off them can we get a reasonable speed restriction on them so they can be safe to ride on 50 km/h streets? Our bike paths are not that well connected and to get anywhere you have to ride on the back streets to connect. They struggle to go any faster than 25 because of the extra weight. And 25 on a 50 road is too big of a speed differential. You just block traffic and get squeezed to the side when you need to pass parked cars.
If they could keep up with a road bike on a flat they would be far more functional and safer for commuting.
THEY’RE ALREADY ILLEGAL! Guess it’s double-illegal now? The cops still won’t be bothered though outside of a couple of politically-motivated ‘blitz’ weekends so hey just keep doing whatever you want.
This is such an Australian-style response and it’s so pathetic. De jure banned, de facto allowed with the tacit understanding the government admits no liability.
Still yet to hear anything from this apparently, intensely bike-safety focused government, that does anything to address the key safety issue for bikes and pedestrians, being cars…
* We’re banning social media for kids because kids should be outside playing with their friends.
* Wait no not like that!
> Western Australia has already imposed an age limit of 16 – and any child under 16 caught riding an ebike faces a $50 fine.
That’ll show them, a $50 fine!
When the bikes themselves cost a few thousand I’m sure bank of mum and dad will fork out a $50.
a change written by complete numpties without a clue
Never seen a problem with a kid on legal ebikes. Every now and then on a mtb trail you get someone on a legal ebike who races up a hill and aggressively passes people getting up under their own steam, but ive never seen that with a kid who would be affected by these changes.
did we ever see gangs of kids on the legal 25kmh limited pedal assist causing traffic chaos at half the speed of the cars? So the entire problem is overpowered illegal bikes. Get ride of them and the rest of the issue goes away. 14 year old wants an ebike to get to school and around the neighbourhood, existing, legal ebikes arent the problem for that
Need to bring in licence plates and compulsory insurance for Ebikes. The number of times I’ve almost had accidents due to idiots riding them is insane.
That age should be 18.
So now we will have cops chasing the young ones to check on their age