It is a promotional video for the Transfer Can V-60 electrical crap-mobile, which may go over 30 American Freedom Miles™ Per Hour, or [?] Socialist Kilometers Per Workday*:
*[One (1) Socialist Workday ≈ One (1) American Freedom Hour™]
To show its capabilities, the corporate reveals it in use on a woodland path:
In addition to on an city bike path:
But at no level do they present it ON THE GODDAMN STREET WHERE IT BELONGS. See, we used to get how motorbikes are alleged to work–or at the least the advertising and marketing folks did:
Again you then met the nicest folks on a Honda. However now you meet the largest assholes on a chunk of Amaz*n e-crap. I imply take a look at this fool:
And this moronic machine is an affront to bicycles and bikes alike:
I point out this specific crap-cycle as a result of based on Streetsblog it’s the mannequin that killed a lady in Brooklyn lately (or, extra precisely, it’s rider(s) did):
The sufferer was getting off a bus when she was hit:
The bike lane alongside Flushing shares sidewalk house with pedestrians, who should cross paths with cyclists to succeed in a bus cease at North Elliot Place. The e-bike riders, a 41-year-old man driving with a 39-year-old lady on the again, have been taken to the hospital in secure situation. Police officers mentioned neither have been arrested. Their e-bike remained on the scene of the crash, which remained beneath investigation.
Town has been cracking down on riders of those crap-traptions, but it surely most likely gained’t shock you to be taught it isn’t working:
Dan Kim, 40, who rode by the scene on an identical e-bike because the one within the crash, mentioned he’s been topic to a latest NYPD crackdown on e-bike riders.
“Final yr, I received like six [tickets] in sooner or later,” mentioned Kim. “They [the police] have been simply following me.”
Dan’s not getting the message, is he?
However let’s additionally pause to understand that sensible New York Metropolis innovation, the mix bike lane-bus cease:
I imagine that is the exact same one the place the deadly crash occurred:
That is actually the peak of stupidity. Placing a bus cease within the path of fast-moving wheeled visitors is like inviting folks over for a celebration and placing the bowl of blended nuts on the ground proper subsequent to the bathroom. It’s all maddening, however the issue with advocacy is that it’s assured to drive you loopy. At first you simply wish to make issues higher, however ultimately you simply end up driving round and searching for stuff to get upset about:
First they inform you we have to rebuild the entire metropolis as a result of it’s going to be underwater by 2100 resulting from local weather change, then when town begins rebuilding they complain that the detour isn’t handy sufficient:
Persevering with above Delancey Avenue on Clinton Avenue, I used to be pressured into the automobile lanes by ambulettes, transferring vans and Ubers blocking the bike lanes. After that, on Houston Avenue, the bike lane is squeezed between automobile lanes, and merging automobile visitors comes from either side.
There’s that phrase once more, although I preserve that with some notable exceptions (loss of life, taxes, a bus cease that forces disembarking passengers to step proper into bicycle visitors) no person can drive you to do shit. Actually no person can drive you right into a automobile lane. Positive, no person desires to get off their bike and stroll it onto the sidewalk and across the impediment, however when you actually have been afraid of your life as the types of people that use this phrase fake to be you then’d do it.
Then once more, as perennially vexed because the advocates could also be, they’ve received nothing on the anti-advocates. Contemplate Lucas Brunelle, who’s offended for causes solely he understands (one thing about wind and timber…?):
[I’m intrigued by he patch on his helmet. If I press it what happens?]
Sheesh, recover from your self, you’re simply one other retired man driving a bicycle in Florida.
