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are bikes limited to 30 km/h also?

• caturopath 3y ago
  e-bikes are limited to slower than that, and the prevailing style of acoustic bike in .nl is hard to get past 30km/h.
• askvictor 3y ago
  eBikes are limited to 25km/h on the motor I believe. But given how many people cycle in Amsterdam, I'd be surprised if you'd get much chance to actually get to that speed (on an eBike or legBike) very often. But even so, the problem is not speed but momentum. A typical car+driver weighs at least 10x (actually, with modern cars it's more like 20x) a bike+rider. So at the same speed, a car will impart 10x the damage/force than a bicycle will. But cyclists are more careful as they don't have a protective metal box around them - if a cyclist collides with a pedestrian, the cyclist is almost certainly going down and getting injured, compared to a car, where the car occupant has zero consequences.
  • kart23 3y ago
    what do you mean given how many people cycle, are you not allowed to ride on the street with cars? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiJUV3Av-W8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiJUV3Av-W8 This guy is doing around 40kmh on a ride through the city. granted he's an extreme outlier, but it's definitely possible.
    • jacquesm 3y ago
      That guy is nuts and shouldn't be cycling at all. Many, many examples of endangering other users of the road because of his ridiculous speed.