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wsdotblog.blogspot.com posted:Drivers should treat these lights just like any other traffic signal. Yellow means prepare to stop, red means stop. VicRoads posted:If you are facing a traffic light that is:
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bicycle exercise is about consistency and an electric bike can assist pedaling so u can stay at the same output same heartrate bikes w/ gears can help the same way
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1760202937752793331?t=I7pS1uk9hHeOI9Gj0Rodrw&s=19 quote:Study after study have shown that people who ride e-bikes get more exercise than those who ride pedal bikes. Follow the links in that paragraph for laughs.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1760202937752793331?t=I7pS1uk9hHeOI9Gj0Rodrw&s=19 Complete surprise! People who actually use their bikes get more exercise! Ebikes are actually pretty good in that regard. More people using bikes is good, even if they need a push. Also I again passed several ebikes on my commute today. They're okay
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e-bikes enable you to go further away than a regular bike, which makes people not be afraid of being too tired to return back, and slowly people end up going further and further away. as you start to get used to it, you start going faster than the max electric assist (for base ebikes) and the motor is only used to get up to speed, hills or when someone is tired. think of a bike as a hybrid vehicle, human power being the efficient one and the electric one that it falls back to. I often use my ebike as a regular bike with the assist off and just change gears, if you were used to riding heavy non e-bikes its the same.
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Celexi posted:e-bikes enable you to go further away than a regular bike, which makes people not be afraid of being too tired to return back, and slowly people end up going further and further away. If you are even moderately trained you can ride beyond any battery range on a regular bike. The notion that e-bike enable you to go farther while common is pretty strange.
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Tiggum posted:Is that actually the rule in America or, like here, just what people think the rule is? How does one "prepare to stop"? What would that even mean? Yellow means "stop", red means "wait". My guess is "prepare to stop" means have your foot hovering over the brake (maybe even touching it gently to get your brake lights on)
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Junkozeyne posted:If you are even moderately trained you can ride beyond any battery range on a regular bike. The notion that e-bike enable you to go farther while common is pretty strange. the "range" of an ebike is the range using full assist, which no one is going to use, like the even smaller throttle range, and unless you are a machine you will get tired so yes an e-bike will still get you further away
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Celexi posted:the "range" of an ebike is the range using full assist, which no one is going to use, like the even smaller throttle range, and unless you are a machine you will get tired so yes an e-bike will still get you further away I looked at some eco-range claims and I didn't even talk about bike packing tours where you don't always have loading access. E-bikes absolutely have benefits, especially if they get people out of cars, but range is not one of them.
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Junkozeyne posted:I looked at some eco-range claims and I didn't even talk about bike packing tours where you don't always have loading access. E-bikes absolutely have benefits, especially if they get people out of cars, but range is not one of them. lol are you really comparing how far road cyclists go compared to normal people? and again unless you are a machine, you can't cycle forever and ever 24/7 without dying lol
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BONGHITZ posted:e-bikes are for casuals Casual bikers are loving great. The difference between commuting 10km on a regular bike and an ebike is not that you can't do both, it's that it's exhausting to do without the assist every day. Adding assistance makes going 10km every day more of an option for a lot of people, which is really good when they would otherwise take the car.
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Mild & endemic Who’s going to start the petition to move the thread to CCCC?
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BonHair posted:The difference between commuting 10km on a regular bike and an ebike is not that you can't do both, it's that it's exhausting to do without the assist every day.
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Tiggum posted:It's not exhausting to ride 10km every day, unless you're trying to go from no riding ever straight to that. Once you get used to it that's trivial. Yeah, that's the entire loving point of the conversation, e bikes make riding far more accessible to every day people that own zero lycra
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FirstnameLastname posted:bicycle exercise is about consistency and an electric bike can assist pedaling so u can stay at the same output same heartrate Single speeds are carbrained as hell
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Groda posted:Single speeds are carbrained as hell fixed gears ftw
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Tiggum posted:It's not exhausting to ride 10km every day, unless you're trying to go from no riding ever straight to that. Once you get used to it that's trivial. It's lowering the bar on "can I be arsed taking the bike today". Also there's a huge difference between riding a bike for fun, where 10km is nothing and riding a bike to work where 10km is kinda long. Also there's a sweat issue.
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Junkozeyne posted:If you are even moderately trained you can ride beyond any battery range on a regular bike. The notion that e-bike enable you to go farther while common is pretty strange. I use my ebike's motor if I need to ride in traffic or climb a big hill. Otherwise I usually keep it off unless I'm exhausted on the return trip.
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If your bike goes too slowly, the solution is to simply become stronger, not strip mine the global south for scraps of lithium.
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Ensign Expendable posted:If your bike goes too slowly, the solution is to simply become stronger, not strip mine the global south for scraps of lithium. how tf am i gonna go to the global south to strip mine it for lithium if i'm not strong enough to bike up a hill?? dumbass
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the last two weeks I've been doing ten laps through a local park that's got a 0.8% grade on the uphill I was feeling like I could do better so this week I've been taking a different route that's a 2.7% grade followed by another 2%. I can do the route reliably now with no stops in between the two hills
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Ensign Expendable posted:If your bike goes too slowly, the solution is to simply become stronger, not strip mine the global south for scraps of lithium. bikes, just like cars, are bad.
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Tiggum posted:It's not exhausting to ride 10km every day, unless you're trying to go from no riding ever straight to that. Once you get used to it that's trivial. Getting over the hump of getting used to it isnt trivial for many people though and thats the point you're missing.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:bikes, just like cars, are bad. that's right, western individualism has poisoned too many brains
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I've seen a massive uptick in micromobility since ebikes and escooters became affordable. Several years ago I might have been the only person on the road some days (outside of a car), and now I'm sharing the road with all sorts of contraptions, like tiny folding ebikes, big chunky ebikes, scooters, onewheels. You could not get all of those people on regular bikes here.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:bikes, just like cars, are bad. Cars on the sidewalk are worse, but bikes on the sidewalk are way more common Keep your contraptions in the road bike dorks
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We've hit recursive automobile crashes now. ambulances are picking up crash victims and crashing themselves on the way to the hospital, necessitating their own ambulances https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/least-1-injured-ambulance-crash-citys-lincoln-lemington-neighborhood/J6RWHTO635GTDC3W424UNMA7AU/ quote:PITTSBURGH — At least one person was taken to a local hospital after an ambulance crash in a Pittsburgh neighborhood early Wednesday morning.
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People are really insecure about ebiking not being as good exercise as regular biking huh
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leftist heap posted:People are really insecure about ebiking not being as good exercise as regular biking huh they heard stav get made fun of for this and can't bring themselves to admit they don't have to take everything on a comedy podcast 100% seriously
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leftist heap posted:People are really insecure about ebiking not being as good exercise as regular biking huh I mean it seems pretty straightforward? On an individual level, spending 30 minutes on a pedal only bike compared to half an hour on an assisted e-bike is better exercise. But on a population level where the average person just plain bikes more on an e-bike (or even bikes in the first place) that is better exercise. But more importantly anything that takes a car off the road even for a while is a net positive to everyone. E: as far as the mining for batteries, a typical electric car has a battery that’s 50-100 times the size of an e-bike. A 98-99% reduction in materials involved is a pretty big deal. AreWeDrunkYet has issued a correction as of 16:54 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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You can't really apply population-level statistics to your own behavior. Here is the study that that article vaguely referenced: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259019821930017X And here is the part that will make everyone here feel better: quote:Travel-related activities of e-bikers who switched from cycling decreased by around 200 MET min/wk., while those switching from private motorized vehicle and public transport gained around 550 and 800 MET min/wk. respectively. The article linked in that tweet did not summarize the findings well. Bad science reporting.
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If you use an ebike with slight assist when you would otherwise be driving, you're going to increase the amount of exercise you're doing. If you replace a normal bike with an ebike with the assist turned all the way up you're going to be doing less exercise. Obviously, statistics that show people getting more exercise with ebikes are showing people who are biking more after getting an ebike. This is incredibly obvious and not worth arguing about.
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mystes posted:If you use an ebike with slight assist when you would otherwise be driving, you're going to increase the amount of exercise you're doing. If you replace a normal bike with an ebike with the assist turned all the way up you're going to be doing less exercise. Obviously, statistics that show people getting more exercise with ebikes are showing people who are biking more after getting an ebike. This is incredibly obvious and not worth arguing about. You’re wrong
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Ensign Expendable posted:If your bike goes too slowly, the solution is to simply become stronger, not strip mine the global south for scraps of lithium. The number of people going from 10km in lycra to 10km on ebike is extremely limited, but the number of people going from car to ebike (in countries/cities that have the infrastructure for it) is much higher and a pretty significant gain. It's not luxury gay space communism, but it's better than cultural fordism.
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mystes posted:If you replace a normal bike with an ebike with the assist turned all the way up you're going to be doing less exercise. I wouldn't even necessarily agree with this if the assist means you go farther anyway
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Now the argument that really makes me stomp my feet is that ebikes are more energy efficient than regular bikes because batteries use less energy than our bodies.
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