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by Levitating 101 days ago
Do you live in areas where these fat bikes are popular?

I am fine with youth experimenting with dangerous stuff. What I have a problem with is having my small bike-oriented city be filled with kids pretending to be gangsters racing around on electric bikes with complete disregard to others.

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Depends. Where I spend most of my time they seem to be actually forbidden by the BLM, which covers most of possible tracks. Maybe because of that they are uncommon on downtown roads, too? It's also an image thing there, like "Electric assistance? Loser!"

Tourists may see it different, but then they'd have to bring them with them. Seems impractical when most of them are already packed with skis, snowboards, and coming by regional plane from larger hubs. Which most them do.

Where I only visit nowadays, they seem also to be uncommon, except for the feeble things capped to 25kph. E-Scooters are way more annoying there. Be it by their drivers, or them simply being dropped in the midst of the way for whatever reason.