• Today's e-bike crash

    From AMuzi@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 9 09:34:38 2025
    The hits just keep coming!

    https://ktla.com/news/local-news/teen-racing-e-bike-in-front-of-police-station-slams-into-squad-car/
    --
    Andrew Muzi
    am@yellowjersey.org
    Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 9 17:13:35 2025
    On Sun Feb 9 09:34:38 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    The hits just keep coming!

    https://ktla.com/news/local-news/teen-racing-e-bike-in-front-of-police-station-slams-into-squad-car/




    Well, that's more teenish than shooting up on the steps of city hall.

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  • From Roger Merriman@21:1/5 to AMuzi on Sun Feb 9 18:28:44 2025
    AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
    The hits just keep coming!

    https://ktla.com/news/local-news/teen-racing-e-bike-in-front-of-police-station-slams-into-squad-car/

    E bike or motorbike? Uk press are bit shit at saying e bike when such
    things happen and it’s 99% of the time a E moped quite a bit heavier and faster than even a hacked E bike, they are legal to buy but effective not
    use unless on private land that’s yours or have permission to use.

    Ie not legal on the roads or the woods, to be be fair most aren’t that bad though still are moped I pass a few as local businesses has opened up on
    the old cycleway, so occasionally encounter a few folks on such mopeds they
    are traveling faster than a bike would but not excessively so.

    Probably could reach 30mph so I guess potentially could use the road which
    is a trunk road, as some roadies do, though that would probably count as advertising there presence to the police who while will not go looking for
    them if one is silly enough to present one’s self to them!

    Roger Merriman

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Y3ljbGludG9t?=@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 10 19:43:27 2025
    On Sun Feb 9 09:34:38 2025 AMuzi wrote:
    The hits just keep coming!

    https://ktla.com/news/local-news/teen-racing-e-bike-in-front-of-police-station-slams-into-squad-car/




    Returning from the donut shop this morning, an E-bike rode right through a 4 way stop where I had right of way. I don't trust these guys so he was safe, but too many illegals are running stop signs and stop lights.

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