What are your thoughts on EBikes in bike lanes?
Personally, it irritates me.
i'm not anti e-bike, but i see people do the dumbest shit they could only do on an e-bike. often because they would be too old or honestly unfit to actually haul ass that way. they use their e-bikes like mopeds they can ride on bikelanes and sidewalks, and the older the user, the more it seems they ride it with some sort of suv-driver mentality. so they don't look left and right, sort of operating on this "i'm obviously fast as fuck boiii so gtfo of my way" mentality. i guess they have to eat shit or collide with someone until they get it. i also get cut off in weird ways way more by people on e-bikes. i have no idea what the deal is.
i think a lot of people that ride e-bikes in the city are just very incompetent riders. they ghostride, don't do any handsigns, will do hardstops without thinking if anyones following, sometimes overtake irrationally only to slow down to a crawl when they are in front of you. most of them are 60 plus. i sometimes think that these people haven't biked in traffic a lot, but maybe started now with this electric bike that makes it easier. the other big group on e-bikes is food messengers, but these don't really cause any problems. there are also a lot of people on regular bikes doing bullshit of course.
e-bikes might be a bit much to handle for the demographic that buys them here. the boomer age types who ride those bikes here mostly ride it with a boomer attitude. another favorite of mine is the ghostriding dad/mom with kids, suiciding against the correct direction of the b-lane, kids in the front, panic in the kids eyes, absolute aggression in parent eyes. every parent doing this can not be fucked with as they stare down the bike lane like fucking kratos.