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Mountain e-bikes are an entire different kind of beast and living in the alps I agree with your observation of more unskilled and untrained people getting on tr
by tlamponi 5y ago
Mountain e-bikes are an entire different kind of beast and living in the alps I agree with your observation of more unskilled and untrained people getting on trails that are a bit over their head, but that already happened here when some regions opened their cable cars for (mountain) biker, e.g., ski areas in the summer.
The current regulation seems Ok to me in the sense of, its simple, and it prevents most of the danger by default and the alternative would probably be to ban ebikes completely (as any hack-prevention will be circumvented sooner or later), which well would be rather counterproductive and people get hurt in cars too, so we'd need to ban almost everything..
I'd rather see some effort in educating people on bike safety in schools. We already had a bike driver licence test in elementary, while it wasn't legally binding it had some educational value, ebikes just weren't a thing there so nothing was thought about them.