Ebikes get a bad wrap, just like the Great White Shark
I found a anti ebike/ escooter article on the internet from the “Torontoist” website. Since I’m a electic scooter/ebike rider, the article got my blood boling.
I always say. “Blame the rider, not the ride” but this article on the Torontoist does a complete and unfair hatchet job on ebikes without any supporting facts or evidence.
There’s a ton of idiots in Toronto who drive bicycles or cars but nobody says, “Ban bicycles and cars from the road” My point is: there’s bad drivers for any vehicle. ”
The article is another fine example of people wrongly “judging” electric bikes and scooters without any facts whatsoever.
The article states:
1. Ebikes are annoying and dangerous:
That’s based purely on the writer’s opinon. How a vehicle that doesn’t make any noise pollution can be annoying is beyond me.
If they did some research they would realize that the accident stats for ebikes is lower than bicycle and skateboard accidents. That’s a fact.
2. Since ebikes are faster and heavier than bicycles, they are more dangerous:
This is completely false. Any vehicle (be it a car, bicycle, skateboard or ebike) can be dangerous.
Andrea Garica spokesperson for the Toronto Cyclist Union is pretty much just talking out of her ass when she states, “Their speed and their size and their weight make them hazardous to people using active transportation,”
Where are the facts, Andrea?
Here’s two points I would like to make:
Point A:
Some cyclists on road bicycles can pedal over 40km/per hour which is faster than most 180W to 500W ebikes.
You know the cyclists I’m talking about. The one’s wearing spandex and think they’re racing in the Tour De France racing down bike lanes or bike trails.
I’ve been passed by more than a few bicycles while riding my 350W ebike going 30km/hr. It is possible for a bicycle to go faster that an electric scooter or ebike.
Point B:
Just because an ebike or electric scooter is heavier than a bicycle doesn’t make it any more dangerous.
There is no evidence in this article or Andrea’s false claims to back this statement up.
If you remember last summer, an old lady was killed from being hit by a cyclist while riding a bicycle. That’s right, A BICYCLE KILLED HER!The cyclist was driving on the sidewalk, going down the wrong way on a one way street but that’s besides the point.
How heavy was the bicycle that killed her, 20 or 40 pounds?
The truth is, if you get hit by any vehicle (going 20km/per hour or more) you could be facing injury or possible death.
I could get hit by somebody on rollerblades and fall down and crack my skull open and die! Any form of transportation can be dangerous.
Electric Scooters are not evil death machines that people make them out to be.
Ebikes get a bad wrap simply because they’re new. If you look back on history, in the early 1900′s bicycles were considered the new form of transportation and most cities wanted to ban them from the roads and license them. That’s right, BICYCLES.
Many people make false judgements about ebikes today very similar to the false judgements of the Great White Shark being a mindless blood thirsty killer when there’s only 3 to 5 shark fatalites a year in the whole world.
Next time you see somebody riding down the street on a ebike just remember there’s more danger in fiction, than there is in the facts.
