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From: Dave Atkins <datkinsg@gmail.com><br>
To: Boston Critical Mass <list@bostoncriticalmass.org><br>
Sent: Mon, Aug 9, 2010 11:23 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Electro Bike....Re: Battered Biker Syndrome<br>
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I think the problem is that when you go to stop the bike...the fact that it has that power assist going on is a surprise...so as you leave the road and go on to the sidewalk, your normal reaction to stop pedaling doesn't slow you down in the way you would expect.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:12 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thom3@aol.com">thom3@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div> <font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks Dave, it's hard to tell in the context because it says the pedal assist made it go too fast...<br>
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still motors on the Esplanade (if that is where it was) seems wrong, if illegal....<br>
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re the electric bikes...I think the reviewer was talking about just riding the bike off the street onto the sidewalk to park it--not riding on the sidewalk instead of the road. I also wrote about that bike here:
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<font color="black" face="arial" size="2">That<font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">'s an ongoing situ that will be well, ongoing, I keep trying to think of better ways to approach motorists on this... <br>
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My immediate thoughts were, is it legal to bike on the sidewalk, let along ride a motorized vehicle on it? And a motorized vehicle on the esplanade? This all seems wrong.<br>
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