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I don't see how any of that is going to stop kids from taking their bikes up hills to ride down.

• throwaway290 4y ago
  You haven't met a single physically weak or tired (with resulting attention lapses) kid? They are much less likely to want to lug the weight of an unpowered bicycle plus their own weight uphill, no matter how hard you pretend to ignore this issue. With a motorbike they don't need to do it
  • rascul 4y ago
    Ahh I think we might be arguing past each other. I was arguing against the the argument that the kids wouldn't have gotten up the hill without an electric bicycle, as that's something that kids do often. I believe you're arguing that it's more difficult without the electric motor, and possibly less likely that they would have gone up the hill, and I agree with that.
    • throwaway290 4y ago
      Yeah, reduced likelihood is my primary point. Not a certainty of course, and this probably cannot be argued in court in this particular case, but in general I don't think it's obvious that cities should lower the bar so much for using powered transport on public streets just because it's electric...