We need to invest in bike infrastructure.

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I think Australia should be considering a pathway to licensing and regulation for these e-motorbikes. A course to learn the laws, roadworthy rules, registration, vehicle lights (indicators, tail, stop, front, high beam), minimum helmet requirements, etc.

Used appropriately, they’re great devices.

Probably more importantly, develop actual micro-mobility infrastructure to allow any gross vehicle mass under ~200kg it’s own proper “roads” where they’re not interacting with cars or pedestrians, esp trucks, kids and dogs.

Currently bikes are mostly forced to deal with one or the other, which draws ire from the public because of the general fuck anyone who affects me in any negative manner attitude we seem to have fostered about transit.

Fuck me that article came across as a bunch of boring old farts yelling at those damn kids.

Why is the guardian conflating E motorbikes and normal legal ebikes? Overpowered ebikes are already illegal on roads. We either need to enforce it more or the commonwealth needs to ban them being imported.

Funny how no one remembers that cars have been killing pedestrians for decades, but somehow bikes are the problem.

Kids. You can't social media anymore. Go outside!

Kids. You can't go outside. Go back and hide in your rooms.

Ffs

The state of New South Wales recorded 226 injuries related to ebikes in 2024. In just the first seven months of 2025, that had already to surged to 233 injuries plus four deaths.

The rest of Australia has faced the same issue, with legal ebikes involved in 239 crashes in 2025 in Queensland, four of which were fatal, according to preliminary police data.

Nowhere in the article does it say anything about car deaths in Queensland and NSW in 2025. I'll look this up later but I fuckin bet you it's WAY higher than 0.57 deaths per month lmao

40 bikes on the Sydney Harbour Bridge is a swarm? How many cars are on it at any moment in time?

There are some "ebikes" in the pictures that should definitely require a license. I was going to say "I didn't know those monsters existed" but of course someone made something like that and tried to sell it as an "ebike for kids".