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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Tiny Bikers and those damn e-bikes
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:27:11 -0400
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On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:52:29 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
wrote:

>Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> "Especially our really youngest members on tiny little bikes - they 
>> really struggle when the track's been damaged like that."
>> 
>> https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-68798754
>> 
>> THERE OUGHTTA BE LAW!!!!
>> 
>If it’s off road sadly the law isn’t that strong ie that some of these are
>almost certainly unregulated electric motorbikes unless they ride on the
>road or similar the law isn’t particularly strong. Even the damage is
>likely to be hard to enforce.
>
>Roger Merriman

I had a moron pass me on a a big fat tire e-bike today. I was doing
about 15 MPH and he must have been doing 30.  Was I wrong to wish that
he would lose control and go into the ditch?