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  • It does feel like the new wave of e-bikes (from manufacturers to promoters to customers) have ignored the existing world of motorcycles in a strange way. Which kind of makes sense given that electric motorcycles have just recently become relevant and are still in their own (ugly and impractical, IMO) fledgling stage. As well as the fact that ignoring regulations and conventions enabled e-bikes to get as big as they have.

    But it’s kind of unfortunate. At least in the US, I think we’re going to see some bad accidents, grifts, and unhappy customers result in a backlash that will cause lawmakers to implement crappy, knee-jerk regulations.

    If it’s not clear, I’m in favor of e-bikes. I just think we need proactive regulation.




  • It seemed like there was a backlash against it. At some point you would get downvoted for citing hailcorporate in comments. If I were more conspiratorial-minded, I would think that Reddit started throwing in downvotes at any comments mentioning hailcorporate, because it would hurt Reddit’s image and advertiser-friendliness. But I’ve noticed that, across social media, some folks seem to get really upset when you point out that a post is fake/marketing/staged. So maybe that’s just online culture now…

    Edit: there were legitimate issues with people citing hailcorporate on posts that they just didn’t like. But that seemed relatively minor to me.