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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to be insane to put a child on an e-bike. Do you let them play with guns too?[/quote]

the OP meant the parents are on the e-bike hauling kids, not the kids themselves.[/quote]

All of it seems incredibly dangerous. As a parent it really bothers me that people do this with their kids. [/quote]

"e-bike injuries were far more serious than those sustained on conventional bikes. Maa says they were more like what’s seen in motorcycle crashes. A pelvic fracture, for example, was uncommon on a pedal bicycle — only about 6 percent of conventional cycling injuries. For e-bike crashes, though, it was 25 percent.

The most alarming difference was the fatality rate. “On a pedal bike, the chance of dying from an injury is about three-tenths of 1 percent,” Alfrey says. On an e-bike, the data indicated, it was 11 percent."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/magazine/e-bikes-accidents-safety-legislation-california.html[/quote]

“e-bikes” = a broad category. I won’t argue that biking is the safest mode of transport in this city — not by a long shot. But the majority of e-bikes that parents are using to tote their kids around town are on the safer, lower-speed end of the e-bike spectrum. Most of the horror stories cited in that article are concerning e-motos. [/quote]

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