Comments

1. DOUG.

   December 28, 2023

   Nice video. One question: Is yelling at a tech bro on a Rad Power Bike to “Slow the f-ck down!” considered e-bike shaming?

2. NickS

   December 30, 2023

   I guess that depends on whether you’d yell the same thing to the same person on a road bike, which often hits the same speeds as a e-bike (e-bikes may have a top assisted speed of 20 or 28mph (class 1 – 3). The road bike may actually go significantly faster depending on gearing.

   I hear the additional mass of e-bikes being used as an argument for why they are more lethal than speeders on road bikes, with spurious comparisons to scooters and motorcycles.

   Let’s say the rider is a 175 lb man. A road bike may weigh around 18 lb. An e-bike may weigh around 60 lb (many are much lighter). That’s 193 lb vs 235 lb, a weight difference that could easily occur with a heavier rider on a road bike. The average 500cc motorcycle is around 400 lb, weighing in at 575 lb with the same rider. The 500cc motorcycle can hit it over 100mph.

   Long story short; people riding any type of bike may do so unsafely for conditions and e-bikes and road bikes are vastly more similar in mass than even smaller motorcycles and scooters.

   I don’t know what tech bros have to do with anything; they’re unlikely to be riding a plebeian Rad Bike.