E bikes rampaging Toronto streets

[nobbie48]

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Speaking of rampaging... Saw this, potentially fake news, and thought of this thread.

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So where's the influencer?

 

[Murphy]

First impression:

Wow, that's crazy, let's get these things off the road. Won't someone think of the children?!

Second impression:

The fact that we have a 'ebikes rampaging toronto streets thread', but it took 7 years and 300+ replies before the thread saw any actual "rampaging", and that the rampaging wasn't even in Toronto, and that the rampaging that wasn't even in Toronto wasn't even on an ebike, kind of makes the point that ebike rampaging in Toronto really isn't a problem.

And I say this as a Toronto resident who drives for a good portion of my income...

Even though more crazy and everywhere in East downtown....I found we all have worked out a way of accommodating each other...
They ride in the bike lanes and sidewalks and stay out of my way.
They ride across crosswalk/intersections ...keeping out of my turning intersection.
I no longer make deliveries so do not need to park on street in bike lanes , which were previously driving/parking lanes to get people their essential deliveries or picking them up and drop off.
Many do not have lights in the dark...but usually know to swerve out of my way.

Different demograph than the original DUI type rough and ready Rampagers...the type that stole my Helmet and winter gloves off my bike and patrol the neighborhoods looking for opportunity to steal

 

[Sukiyaki]

Because there's no money in fining near-welfare wage people.

Because if you fine them you have to fine bicycle riders.

Because they don't pop wheelies at 60mph on the highway.

Yeah well they spend all night popping wheelies up and down my street, beneath the Gardiner. Idiot pains in the ass.

 

[Sukiyaki]

Natural selection, they are required to where as little as a minimal protection bicycle helmet. When they crash at 50kms they won't be riding anymore.

And many don’t even bother wearing a helmet.

This city is overrun with an epidemic of cockroaches.

 

[Sukiyaki]

DUI Ducati's.... Lol.

Haha.

So true - or used to be…

Before COVID and the rise of ghost kitchens - which is what originally started this plague of insects that some people label as popularity - the only people riding them were those who either couldn’t afford something better and needed to get around, or people who lost their licenses/were on facility.

True story - before COVID one of the managers at work (who I knew of, but didn’t know well) kept referring to his “motorcycle,” and would drop that any chance he got, as in’ “Oh it was so hot today riding my motorcycle,” “I hope it doesn’t rain I brought my motorcycle.”

So one day I asked what *motorcycle* he rode?

He said “emmo.”

I said, “who makes that? I haven’t heard of that model.

He said again, “emmo.”

Eventually with the back and forth he told me it was electric. So I said, “that’s not a motorcycle, it doesn’t even qualify as a scooter.”

He didn’t like me much after that, haha. Turned out he was an alcoholic. Nothing says DUI quite like pulling up at your professional job in a suit and tie, on a scooter so small you look like a clown in a circus show…

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