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BRAIN are reporting Lyft have specced Tektro mechanical front disk brake while keeping the Shimano Inter-M for the rear brake (hopefully retrofitted with the necessary power modulators), for their bikeshare ebikes. Uber now use Tektro hydraulic disk brake on the front of their 2nd gen JUMP bikeshare bikes. Hopefully now Lyft corporate have made a decision Motivate can get on with refitting and rolling out the CaBi+ pedelecs.

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Sorry for your injury Glenn, PT worked wonders for me. God speed your recovery.

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The WashCycle and GGW blogs are reporting the District of Columbia is considering revising its ebike and escooter laws. The “Electric Mobility Devices Amendment Act of 2019” would redefine Motorized Bicycles (Class 1 and 2 ebikes) as a Battery Assisted Bicycle further defining them plus escooters as types of Electric Mobility Device. The biggest changes would be to permit EMD’s (including Class 1 and 2 ebikes and escooters) to ride on sidewalks outside the Central Business District.

On a related note, BRAIN is reporting the pace has picked up for states adopting the BPSA/People for Bikes 3-class model ebike legislation with 22 states now signed up including Maryland.

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@elbows 191518 wrote:

Here’s another incident at the same intersection (pedestrian, not cyclist).

https://www.arlnow.com/2019/06/12/breaking-police-investigating-serious-pedestrian-crash-on-columbia-pike/

Arlnow are reporting the pedestrian was killed

https://www.arlnow.com/2019/06/17/police-two-pedestrians-killed-in-arlington-crashes-last-week/

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Yeah I can’t figure it out, one commenter said it now costs the same as using Uber pool for a 15 minute ride?!

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This is why we need CaBi ebikes : 1 month after $8bn IPO Uber announce 67% price increase on JUMP ebikeshare rides https://denver.streetsblog.org/2019/06/13/1-month-after-i-p-o-a-big-jump-in-prices-at-ubers-bike-share-service/

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The WashCycle blog is reporting among recent legislation proposed by DC Council member Mary Cheh is a revision to the 2016 Motor Vehicle Collision Recovery Act (MVCRA) to extend its legal protections to riders of ebikes and escooters involved in collisions with motor vehicles in the District of Columbia. The law applied a 51% “comparative negligence” standard in civil cases enabling cyclists and pedestrians to pursue compensation for 100% of medical expenses and property damage if they are no more than 50% at fault in causing a crash with a motor vehicle. As originally written the MVCRA protected pedestrians, pedal cyclists, and “non-motorized” public road users…plus riders of segways(?) The proposed revision, titled “Vulnerable User Collision Recovery Amendment Act Of 2019“, will extend the protections to riders of ebikes and escooters. In the DC region Virginia and Maryland still maintain the contributory negligence standard, Source: https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/COMPARATIVE-FAULT-SYSTEMS-CHART.pdf

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Fame at last! After reading the first part of the tweet my wife giggled as my rig was photographed while I was taking our 3 year old daughter to dance class, I shall take this as confirmation I look utterly exhausted and ancient. It’s all good because I agree with the sentiment, ebikes make it possible for me to run errands, go places, tow a trailer, ride a bike with my family, while running on caffeine and interrupted sleep.

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BRAIN article reporting CitiBike (and CaBi+) pedelecs won’t return to the active fleet until this fall.

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Sorry to read of your crash, hope the road rash heals quickly and your bike can be fixed.

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@ChristoB50 190565 wrote:

We’ve been told it will be called Potomac Yard Station. (Maybe by then they’ll decide on “National Landing Station”…). Since my office building is on Potomac Avenue (Alexandria) I’m envisioning how easily a newbie visitor coming to the office could end up at Potomac Avenue Station in MD by mistake

My wife worked on the estate at Mount Vernon, VA, sometime ago, one time a bedraggled student approached and asked the way to the GW dorm … she meant the dorms on GW’s Mt Vernon campus in Palisades DC

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Responding to mortality figures reported for 2018 by Statistics Netherlands, the director of the Dutch cyclists union Saskia Kluit reported “it is striking that the casualties on e-bikes remained stable: 57 in 2018. The electric bike is not so dangerous as some portray it.“ Source: https://www.fietsersbond.nl/nieuws/meer-fietsdoden-fietsersbond-wil-onderzoek-en-daadkracht/

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Streetsblog mentioned a recent study of e-scooter injuries in Austin, TX https://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Health/Epidemiology/APH_Dockless_Electric_Scooter_Study_5-2-19.pdf

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I’ve read the Springer works well for walking dogs while riding.

Also MUSH!

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@dasgeh 190380 wrote:

Arlington does not ban scooters on sidewalks — Virginia does currently, but will stop on July 1. (Which is why the Arlington materials say they are banned)

Thanks I hadn’t noticed they were relying on state law in the regs, but you’re right on page 4 of the Memorandum of agreement operators have to sign I see it says “electric scooters are prohibited from operating on sidewalks (per Va Code §46.2-903)” and now that section has changed.

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