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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Tiny Bikers and those damn e-bikes
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:55:23 -0500
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On 4/15/2024 6:27 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> 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?

There's probably a place for psychokinesis, which is a skill 
I do not have. sigh.
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Andrew Muzi
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