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If you don't live in NYC you should know that a lot of bicycles in NYC are delivery guys riding electrified bicycles that go up to 20MpH. Many of them don't wea
by msoad 7y ago
If you don't live in NYC you should know that a lot of bicycles in NYC are delivery guys riding electrified bicycles that go up to 20MpH. Many of them don't wear helmets and ride dangerously. I don't have anything to back this tip but the raise of deaths can be linked to raise of electric bicycles
- 120photo 7y agoI'll second this. Many of them are fine but there are a lot of jack @$$3s out there on ebikes not considering they now have a motor powering their bikes.
- CydeWeys 7y agoNegative, the good majority of the deaths are not people on e-bikes.
- TulliusCicero 7y agoI mean, 20mph isn't actually that fast. It's pretty easy to exceed that on a road bike, even if you're not in the best shape. Their stronger acceleration is probably a bigger problem.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoIt's more they they habitually run red lights and go the wrong way. It's very easy to not see them coming from a direction that a car can't come from when they're obscured by parked vehicles.
- bluntfang 7y agojust curious what your observations are on people in cars wearing seat belts.
- pedantsamaritan 7y agoI see only 3 of the 26 deaths in NYC this year as e-bike riders: https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/these-14-cyclists-died-nyc-crashes-2019 https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/these-14-cyclists-d... My reading of NYC data links motor vehicles to deaths and injuries: From mid 2012 to mid 2019, there were 940 reports of a crash with a bike as the primary vehicle and 1+ pedestrians injured. In the same time period, there were 69776 reports of a crash without bicycle as primary vehicle injuring 1+ pedestrians.