It is a promotional video for the Transfer Can V-60 electrical crap-mobile, which may go over 30 American Freedom Miles™ Per Hour, or [?] Socialist Kilometers Per Workday*:
*[One (1) Socialist Workday ≈ One (1) American Freedom Hour™]
To display its capabilities, the corporate reveals it in use on a woodland path:
In addition to on an city bike path:
But at no level do they present it ON THE GODDAMN STREET WHERE IT BELONGS. See, we used to get how motorbikes are purported to work–or no less than the advertising folks did:
Again then you definately met the nicest folks on a Honda. However now you meet the largest assholes on a bit of Amaz*n e-crap. I imply take a look at this fool:
And this moronic machine is an affront to bicycles and bikes alike:
I point out this explicit crap-cycle as a result of in keeping with Streetsblog it’s the mannequin that killed a girl in Brooklyn not too long ago (or, extra precisely, it’s rider(s) did):
The sufferer was getting off a bus when she was hit:
The bike lane alongside Flushing shares sidewalk area with pedestrians, who should cross paths with cyclists to achieve a bus cease at North Elliot Place. The e-bike riders, a 41-year-old man driving with a 39-year-old lady on the again, have been taken to the hospital in secure situation. Police officers stated neither have been arrested. Their e-bike remained on the scene of the crash, which remained underneath investigation.
The town has been cracking down on riders of those crap-traptions, but it surely most likely received’t shock you to study it isn’t working:
Dan Kim, 40, who rode by the scene on an analogous e-bike because the one within the crash, stated he’s been topic to a latest NYPD crackdown on e-bike riders.
“Final 12 months, I acquired like six [tickets] in sooner or later,” stated Kim. “They [the police] have been simply following me.”
Dan’s not getting the message, is he?
However let’s additionally pause to understand that good New York Metropolis innovation, the mix bike lane-bus cease:
I consider that is the exact same one the place the deadly crash occurred:
That is actually the peak of stupidity. Placing a bus cease within the path of fast-moving wheeled visitors is like inviting folks over for a celebration and placing the bowl of combined nuts on the ground proper subsequent to the bathroom. It’s all maddening, however the issue with advocacy is that it’s assured to drive you loopy. At first you simply need to make issues higher, however finally you simply end up driving round and on the lookout for stuff to get upset about:
First they let you know we have to rebuild the entire metropolis as a result of it’s going to be underwater by 2100 on account of local weather change, then when town begins rebuilding they complain that the detour isn’t handy sufficient:
Persevering with above Delancey Avenue on Clinton Avenue, I used to be compelled into the automotive lanes by ambulettes, transferring vans and Ubers blocking the bike lanes. After that, on Houston Avenue, the bike lane is squeezed between automotive lanes, and merging automotive visitors comes from either side.
There’s that phrase once more, although I preserve that with some notable exceptions (dying, taxes, a bus cease that forces disembarking passengers to step proper into bicycle visitors) no one can drive you to do shit. Definitely no one can drive you right into a automotive lane. Positive, no one desires to get off their bike and stroll it onto the sidewalk and across the impediment, however should you actually have been afraid of your life as the types of people that use this phrase fake to be then you definately’d do it.
Then once more, as perennially vexed because the advocates could also be, they’ve acquired nothing on the anti-advocates. Think about Lucas Brunelle, who’s offended for causes solely he understands (one thing about wind and bushes…?):
[I’m intrigued by he patch on his helmet. If I press it what happens?]
Sheesh, recover from your self, you’re simply one other retired man driving a bicycle in Florida.
