The five biggest Dutch cities are urging the government to let them ban fatbikes, e-scooters and other motor-powered vehicles from cycle lanes to prevent “total chaos,” the Telegraaf reported on Wednesday. “Cycle lanes should be a safe place for all cyclists, not just the biggest, strongest and fastest,” the cities’ transport chiefs said in a joint statement to parliament’s infrastructure committee, which is debating road safety on Thursday. Local authorities have long warned that cycle lanes are overloaded and were...
Maybe they just consider fatbikes as a synonym to electric fatbikes now, but from the debates I’ve seen, it’s specifically electric fatbikes, e-scooters and LEV (Light eletric vehicles), due to their heavier weight and faster acceleration provided by the electric motor
Perhaps they should mention it directly as e-fatbikes or something, like e-scooter, ebike, etc
Whether fatbike means electrified or not doesn’t matter. Switching an ebike from 26x4.0 wheels/tires to 27.5x 2.5 results in a negligible weight difference.
Are they talking about banning all ebikes regardless of tire size, and just referring to them as fatbikes?
I visited Europe recently and 90% of the fat bikes I saw there were the illegally high powered kind. So I dont think they have a problem with the tyre size, just that the majority of those bikes are not suited to bike lanes. Unfortunate association.
When I was in Copenhagen there were even petrol scooters using the bike lanes and overtaking cyclists within the lane. Sketchy shit.
in Antwerp, AFAIK that’s legal (with low speed limits)… could be the same in Copenhagen?
Yeah, maybe. Was surprising to see, but no one I saw really seemed to care, so yeah, could be legal~