Navigating The E-bike Boom With America's Outdated Infrastructure

So why government won’t downgrade the speed cars to 30-40mph
Everybody out here has a car suv pickup they all abuse speed
Find it i find them I find subject annoying

Much of this video is talking about motorized bicycles, not e-bikes. E-bikes are defined as pedal assisted up to a certain speed, and don't use a throttle.

This video tries to position e-bikes as potentially dangerous, which is not surprising coming out of the US. But consider the danger compared to cars, it's not even close.

I'm sure more people die from falling in the shower than having been hit by an e-bike. Bicycle fatalities are almost always because of cars with the very rare exception.

They don't want people to be self sufficient, rather depend on public transportation etc, yes ebike can be dangerous if not riding it responsible, but isn't that for everything?

Wow thank you for this. I just stumbled on this and been cycling Downtown Houston. But I spend most of it on at Allen parkways- Memorial area. I would enter in downtown and get a coffee or bite. You got to seriously not pay attention to get in an accident.

This aged poorly

I teach ebike rider skills and education for city riding, pavement and gravel commuting. Santa Fe NM. Come take a class or two or three. Its a nice pretty city to learn. I'd say that class 1, 2, 3 ebikes are a fast bicycle not a motorcyle by any means. We focus on pedaling and assist, developing that 6th sense, making it your prime ride. Not just sitting there twisting a throttle going 30+, a motorcycle. 20 mph is plenty fast for riding in the city. 28mph if you have to do distance. Love the silence, love the fitness. Wear a helmet for sure in the US. Not counting emopeds or e-motobikes. You know, pegs not pedals. Those things with low seats, heavy, and above 28mph are not in the same catagory as the standard ebike. Ebikes are pretty rad and revolutionary.

One caveat is that ebikes in the Netherlands don't really have many of the benefits of ebikes in North America. They're just as expensive (in part due to the fact that they are heavily regulated), but by being much slower, their value proposition vs car ownership is greatly decreased. Using an ebike in the US means that you get within any destination 5km from your starting point faster than you can in a car, and everywhere else up to three times slower. But an ebike in the Netherlands will always be slower than a car, as it is roughly equivalent in speed to a non-motorized bike. The only benefit that remains is the fact that they allow you to travel without getting sweaty, which is great for commuting.

Older adults will love riding E-bikes, especially in the ice and rain!

Cars are a weapon of mass destruction. They should ban assault class vehicles like SUVs.

People get obliterated on ebikes but they don't want to follow the rules of the road

I bought my ebike due to I can't get a DL due to a eye problem and the cost of public transpirtation has skyrocketed.

I started to use my bicycle daily in 1986. At that time it was for fun and sport. In 1991 I became a MTB rider. In 1993 I was using my bicycle to commute going to college (and other places). Since that days I haven't ever left my bicycle again, even when some times I use a business car or truck. As soon as I can I go back to my common way to commute every where I did it. In my third world country and in the place where I need to go around is a hilly car and bus transportation almost every where. Fortunately, there are always parallel empty streets, boulevards center green paths and other kind of paths that cars can't get on and pedestrians are rare.

The basic rules are: design the routes you will need (safe, clean, enjoyable, etc......not short, bicycles solve that problem); avoid cars as much as possible; avoid pedestrians as much as possible; be smart with your speed, it is proper to go very slow between pedestrians, even go following one. Wait until all cars are gone (commonly car packs) and then use the lonely streets.

When designing your route prefer clean air, safe path and empty line even if you have to move 4 km (2.5 mi) away. For a bicycle that's not a significative distance and your life and commute will be improved and prevail.

That old lady is a Wich! Why limit to 20 MPH, has she ever even biked?!

Ppl will be so much healthier and happier with less car travel

All I can say is good luck fighting against oil lobbyists.

Don't be silly you haven't heard of 20 below temperatures ice and snow

"Let's limit ebikes speed cause there are more serious injuries when ebikes are involved" now, how many of those accidents are solely ebike riders fault for going at a certain speed? What do they expect ebike riders to do when they have to share lane with cars? Ride at 10mph when cars are passing by at 40mph? That sure sounds super safe! Why not blame the lack of bike lanes and general bike infrasctructure, motor vehicle drivers lack of respect for bikes, safety standarts for ebike manufactures, etc? Sure, let's take the easy route and blame bike and bike riders once again...

Sometimes Ebikes or not always the issue there are tons of terrible drivers in New York that were actually because of ebike crashes, but everyone just loves to blame the Ebikers and nerfer The car drivers for when they’re driving terrible

Believe me I’ve seen it all, but you can’t just point fingers only at one party without getting the facts

If you take away the Ebikes, you take away peoples actual transportation especially for those that have low income and they’re only transportation for those that only have one E bike

Not to mention, it will ruin food delivery riders to get to their transportation

And what’s going to happen when the police steal your bikers bikes because obviously that they didn’t pay for it and they plan to just take it away from people

So now I wonder how are the food customers going to react when their food stops midway to their house because a officer wants to steal the delivery drivers Ebike ??

Take lanes away from cars and turn into dedicated ebike lane. Cars are the problem. Not ebikes.

I bet the ebike injuries are far less that those of gun shootings. Guns dont seem to be regulated and if they are they are not enforced. I will take an ebike anyday thank you. Idiots on wheels always get hurt because they are idiots. Cars are dangerous also. Nothing will get you thru life safe from injury. Injury is part of living. PEOPLE get over your endless whining.

Requiring helmets doesn’t help prevent accidents, it encourages riders to take more risks that lead to accidents 🗣️🗣️

It is funny that "motorbike countries" such as Vietnam plan to be a car countries in the future, while "car countries" like US are thinking about being ebike countries 😅. This earth server is weird 😅

Of those 53 Ebike deaths between 2017 and 2021, how many died from being hit by a car or truck???

Bikes are not the danger, but the massive amount of cars and trucks that drives like they just found their license in a cereal box.

Sidewalks get pushed up by tree roots...helmets are awesome.......the usa has long stretches to cover...I can shop in a center...I can not get from one side of the city to the other...I do enjoy and find my Vtuvia useful

NYC LEADERS IS NOT WISE TO EVEN MAKING NYC ROADS MUCH NARROWER THAN BEFORE THEY WANT TO FOLLOW OTHER COUNTRIES THAT USES BIKES FROM THE DAYS OF OLD....

NYC ROADS IS NARROWER EVERY DAY....THE ROADS IS NOT WIDE FOR BIKES AND CARS PLUS PEDESTRIANS WHO IS WALKING ON THE STREETS..

TRILLIONAIRES AND MILLIONAIRES WILL FIND ALL WAYS TO GET RICHER FROM ESPECIALLY OF BLACK PEOPLE....

BIKES IS FOR TROPICAL COUNTRIES 🤔🤔🤔 AMERICA IS NOT A TROPICAL COUNTRY SOOOO THEY'RE REALLY NOT WISE TO USE BIKES IN NYC AND OTHER STATE....

NOW USA GOVERNMENT/POLITICIANS WANTS TO GET RICHER OFF THE PEOPLE BIKES...JUST IN A FEW MONTH USA GOVERNMENT/POLITICIANS WILL START CHARGE TAXES ON THESE BIKES TO TRANSPORTATION...IN US every IS TO KEEP TRILLIONAIRES AND MILLIONAIRES RICHERS AND TO KEEP BLACK FROM GETTING SOME OF THAT RICHNESS...BE WISE PEOPLE WITH UR BIKES IN USA / NYC.

IN AMERICA THE BIKE CANNOT USE WHEN IS WINTER ...SO STOP BEING FOOL AND BE WISE ...99% OF PEOPLE WHO IS JEALOUS OF HOW OTHER COUNTRIES LIFE STYLE IS SIMPLE AND CHEAP...WHILE LEADERS IN AMERICA LEADS USA PEOPLE INTO HIGH RISE BILLS OF CARS .

EnVY AND JEALOUSY IS CORRUPTION...PLEASE OTHER COUNTRY'S NEW IDEAS OF USING BIKE AS CAR TO CARRY PASSENGERS...THAT IS CHINA IDEAS, DOMINICAN IDEAS, OTHER COUNTRIES IDEAS.. USA MUST STOP STEAL OTHER COUNTRIES AND BEHAVING LIKE THEY CREATED THIS IDEAS THEMSELVES ABOUT USING E-BIKE HERE IN AMERICA....ALL OF A SUDEN BIKES IS IN USA LIKE RICE GRAINS...

WHY USA IS ALWAYS GOING TO OTHER COUNTRIES TO AND BRING IT BACK IN USA ,IJE IT WAS THEIR IDEAS OF RIDING EBIKE? USA LEADERS DOES HAVE THIER OWN IDEAS INSTEAD OF GETTING JEALOUS AND ADAPTING OTHER WONDERFUL COUNTRIES IDEAS IT'S THAT THAT USA DOESN'T HAVE ANY IDEAS FOR THEMSELVES..SHAME..

OMG! Don't drive anything!

She would have shot a horse for pooing. He is psychotic.

Like everything else certain jurisdictions always want to over regulate things people own. E-bikes are the same way, and the people who like doing this like some of the bureaucrats you see in this video aren't the people out on bikes at all, they just want to impose on other people owning them. I think what's missing besides the obvious concept that is the cars always being more of a safety issue than anything else, is that e-bikes shouldn't be made to do only what other bicycles do. That's not why people are buying them. At least other than the very old aren't. They're buying them to do more at times. Being faster with traffic, being able to be safer with traffic, at speeds that are more often the same or closer to what the traffic is doing. I see them as a cross between what someone does with an average conventional scooter and ordinary bicycles. Regulating them to 15 MPH assisting is inane and this chills more people being on two wheels instead of in their cars. That being said I see two areas with them that should be taken more care with in terms of practical use. Old men or old women jumping on e-bikes with decent power who haven't been on any bikes in decades, and teenagers who have instincts and reactions, but little experience with road traffic riding. I see little reason for anyone younger than 18 being on one. This can be a private matter for the parents, but also with advisements from agencies. It doesn't always have to be about iron boot regulations. I will add that for Communist China, they had tons of bike use, especially from the 1970s on, with their "Cultural Revolution" and little to none for private car use, not because of some new progressive thinking, but because they are the communists and people were poor with all the fruits of socialism. That basis isn't like Holland's at all, and it's a bad, bad example therefore.

Yes America trying to ban e-bikes 😂…. Stupid !

We are very car dependent

It’s time for change now!

More e-bikes less cars and less roads for cars! More roads for bikes and e-bikes

It’s time for change now!!!

E bikes are much more versatile than cars indeed. Much easier for doing errands , shopping , commute. Even hunters have discovered bike as a mode of utility

I own a CHEVROLET SUBURBAN, but i really love riding my ebike to commute and do quick stops here and there on my days off. By the way there are occasions that I don’t move my vehicle in weeks specially spring and fall.

Just build the protected bike lanes. Do it. Don’t talk about it.

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This video is obviously against E bikes it’s biased, because big corporation does not want people to be free of car, insurance and high price of gas and keeping up a vehicle such as a car

Everyone likes to blame speed, but there are a lot of other compounding items. As it was mentioned, everyone freaks out over an e-bike going 30mph but okay with a car going 100+mph. Lack of infrastructure for bikes or just poor infrastructure mixed dangerously with cars, no helmets (you see this issue with scooters) and people riding irresponsibly. Frankly most of my trips are relatively short so one of those cargo bikes you see in the Netherlands would be great to use. Sadly in San Francisco it's very dangerous riding a bike in areas because of traffic and people not willing to share the road responsibly.

I understand the video was limited in length, but I wish they had spent some time talking about how the Netherlands used to be car centric like the US, why they decided to change, and how they managed it. Instead, Amsterdam is just help up as this example of biking heaven with only a small 10 second segment of Jason talking about that. Probably cut for time, but still, having some kind of roadmap of how to get there would have been nice. Watch NJB videos for that I guess.

I certainly do not want an e-bike with speed capped at 15 mph. Way too slow to be useful.

We won’t have that infrastructure anytime soon for the same reason we don’t have fast trains like in Japan

I could see having an e-bike. I have up my motorcycles after an accident. That being said, in 90+° weather, or cold, or rain i want my car with AC or heat as needed. For the rest of the time I would totally e-bike.

In live in MA so they are regulated as motorcycles.

25 km/h is really slow !!!!

I have an e-bike and like it. No, it won't replace cars. Be realistic. I'm sure the majority of e-bikes are used recreationally too.