Amsterdam is often held up as the gold standard for bicycle-friendly cities, but even in one of the most bike-centric...
  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
    12·
    6 days ago

    This major city just banned fat tire electric bikes

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    It did not.

    Only in Vondelpark, which, with its 64ha, is roughly 1/350 of the total city area.

    • Perspectivist@feddit.uk
      6·
      6 days ago

      It’s a bit vague article anyway. It doesn’t really specify what they banned exactly. I doubt that they’ll just go with tire width alone. I know what kind of bikes they’re talking about and those are nothing like my eBike despite having fat tires too. The pedals on mine aren’t for show.

      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
        7·
        6 days ago

        Another article stated that they really decided to only go by tire width to omit legal ambiguity.

        All bikes with tire width > 7cm will be banned.
        That’s ~2.75 inches, so normal mountainbikes or regular Big Apple-type tires will be fine.

        Still a shitty measure, they should just enforce existing laws concerning motorized vehicles instead.

        I am pretty sure the fines for driving an unauthorized 60kmph vehicle are high enough to convince people not to try it. That is, if there are regular controls and the fines are actually enforced.