On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 4:23:58 PM UTC-4, jbeattie wrote:
With eBikes, though, you end up with otherwise unskilled riders who ride really fast in bike traffic. Fast dopes. Really fast unassisted riders are generally skilled -- not always, but generally. Imagine a pack of eBikers.. It would make a Cat 5 race look safe.

That same point has been made elsewhere by John Schubert,
who's a pretty notable bike expert. As he explained, it
usually takes quite a lot of riding to get fast on a bike.
During that time, you tend to learn from your mistakes,
if nothing else, and most of those mistakes happen at
low speed.

Now you can get fast on a bike by buying or renting one
with an electric motor. You get to make all your
beginner mistakes at 18 mph. Whee!

A similar situation happens with motorcycles. And the
terrible safety stats for motorcycles are dominated by
beginners.

- Frank Krygowski