There is no reason not to have a bicycle path and have cyclists using the road too - unless like in Germany, where an official bicycle path means you are not al

There is no reason not to have a bicycle path and have cyclists using the road too - unless like in Germany, where an official bicycle path means you are not allowed to bike on a road. And even without electrical assist, a capable biker way exceeds the speeds safely possible on the bike paths. As it turns out, most cyclists prefer those speeds, when they can reach them with the electrical assist. So we need a solution which caters all desired speeds. Electrical assist (which is limited to 25 kph in Germany) just means, that more cyclists can reach the speed a normal healthy biker always had been able to reach.