Same with grannies, hardly able to ride a bike, but effortlessly speeding along narrow trails, endangering people after every curve.
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Respect the grannies - they have certainly done hard stuff.
mar 25, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Ageism reflects on you very badly. I’ve cycled all my life, and now I want to replace even more of my car journeys in my hilly city, as well as keep up with my student son when we go for cycle rides together, so I have an e-bike. Many of my friends have one too. Just wave and say hi when you see us.
mar 25, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
What you call ageism from a drawer-structured mind almost hit us several times when we took a walk. You may also add exism in your drawers for it's - alas - mostly 50+ aged women struggling not to fall off the bike. Maybe maintaining full speed helps them to get the balance right.🤗 Good insurance?
mar 25, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
In Europe (where I live) cycling is a normal activity. We don’t need insurance to do it. The desire to continue to cycle into old age is normal and common, and e-bikes are enabling more and more older Europeans to do so. What is happening in the USA god only knows.
mar 25, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep, I'm from EU too. Nevertheless, if you hit someone in an accident and he's injured, it's better to have an insurance, as you'll have to pay millions for compensation in worst case. Many less sporty elderly people who didn't ride normal bikes for decades keep running at speeds they can't handle.
mar 25, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
In the UK no insurance is required to cycle. And it’s far more common for cyclists to be hurt or killed by motor vehicle drivers, or to be forced to a sudden stop by pedestrians who eg are crossing the road while staring at their phones and not paying attention.
mar 25, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
As I said, bump into someone getting injured from your cycling, and wait for the bill...
mar 26, 2025, 1:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Not in the UK. If a cyclist were to deliberately break the law and then harm you eg cycle the wrong way down a one-way street, or failing to stop at a traffic light, then you could try to make a legal claim. But someone being a bit wobbly on their bike which they’re riding perfectly legally, no.
mar 26, 2025, 1:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Do it! There’s an ebike in my future. I keep putting the future off, but I know it will catch me eventually. :)
mar 25, 2025, 3:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Better a granny endangering people on an ebike- total weight under 150kg- than in a car- total weight 1500kg
aug 22, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view