Do you have a way around the membership paywall? I want to read the whole article!

Depends on where you live. Significantly flat area? Totally unnecessary. We have some 21% grade hills, and when you are behind five cars at a red light, you can’t even push off to get started because it’s so steep when hauling groceries or kids.

The throttle is the only way you can get the first stroke in to engage the motor as you also use your legs. Ebikes/escooters make up a huge portion of our micromobility culture.

It’s also part of the reason why bike culture never really took off here until electric bikes/scooters/onewheels became affordable.

My favorite are the ones here, which look like plastic, but are actually reinforced steel and concrete. Someone’s in for a surprise, just like the people who park in the rush hour bus lane (their brand new Mach E was destroyed)

I wish I had this for pollen when I’m out biking in spring.

This will only change with proper police enforcement. But the much bigger problem are car accidents, which disproportionately affect pedestrians, causing just shy of 6,000 accidents in my city.

Of the 25 killed, 16 were pedestrians in high speed areas like stroads and highway onramps. (300 total crashes into pedestrians)

Bikes had 260 crashes, zero of which were fatal, but many of which involved cars.

Vision Zero is working, and bike and scooter accidents will increase as usage increases. But slowing cars and making roads narrow to limit speeding will keep more people, including drivers, safer.

I love how pretty their eyes are :)

Yes, extremely important right now, too. They’re pretty much the only thing that’s stopping CWD, a prion disease cousin to Mad Cow, from spreading across north America in wild game and bush meat. Wolves are immune to it, interestingly enough. And they go after sick animals exhibiting odd, “zombie like” behavior due to CWD.

I pray to God it doesn’t jump from bush meat to humans, or into cattle and farming.

In a bit of a reverse to this, wolf populations are WAY up in Oregon, now. Even with poisonings and deliberate killings. There are hundreds of wolves in the state, and they trend upwards each year.

…oregon has no wolf reintroduction program. These wolves have come from other states, like Montana, Idaho, and Washington, whose numbers are also increasing!

Wolves restore habitats degraded by overpopulation and disease, bringing back species lost or driven out by overgrazing or defoliation of trees. :)

Hahaha, I love this.

Sounds like you can still have ICE powered stuff. Get an ebike, swap the motor, and straight pipe that shit, lol.

There was, don’t watch it, it bombed xD

Nothing went wrong. Remember the era where every sequel was straight to DVD? Who remembers The Lion King 2? How about Brother Bear 2? Sonic Adventure 2?

It’s difficult to iterate on a piece of media that was written to be a standalone entity.

The only exceptions really are when stories are split into multiple games (such as halo 1-3)

This is clever and adorable :)

I agree with some portions, but I think that the bike industry is going to need more than 10 years of help. We are basically starting from scratch here.

It’s a good goal though, we should have at least 40% capacity here for bike and ebike manufacturing. 86% from china is unhealthy.