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I only recommend them if you're riding in the city with glass and debris. If you're doing any kind of fast rides with cornering go with a GP5000.Thinking of copping some gator skins this summer. It got mixed reviews tho
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I am riding in the NYC streets, but I don't want to sacrifice the speed. Those gp5000 look promising. Thanks breh.
Newark says e-bike and scooter rental program surpassed 1M trips
The program provides access to zero-emission transportation for people who can't afford electric cars
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Newark says e-bike and scooter rental program surpassed 1M trips
- Published: May. 22, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Several of Bird Scooters' electric two-wheeled rental vehicles that are part of the NewarkGo program. Newark Broad Street Station hosts one of 30 or so docking stations around the city where scooters can be unlocked for a dollar.Steve Strunsky | NJ Advance Media For NJ.com
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An electric bike and scooter sharing program launched by Newark two years ago notched its millionth ride, city officials said Monday.
“Newarkers are riding them,” Mayor Ras J. Baraka said after taking a brief spin on one of the program’s black-and-teal colored e-scooters by Veo Micrmobility, following a press conference. “I saw a guy wearing a McDonald’s outfit riding.”
Providing an inexpensive, convenient, and environmentally friendly commute is one of the main purposes of the NewarkGo program, launched in July 2021 jointly by the city, Veo, and a second company, Bird Scooters, recognizable by their metal finish with aqua trim.
The program involves about 2,000 bikes and scooters between the two companies. Bird users pay $1 to unlock one of the vehicles using a phone app, plus another 15 cents per minute. Veo users pay $1 an hour. Both companies offer discounts for income-qualified users.
The scooters are visible around the city every day, leaning against walls, standing on sidewalks, and lying on patches of grass. The companies use GPS technology and pick-up vans to locate the bikes and scooters and replace them in 30 or so “docking stations” — parking lot-sized boxes painted on the pavement — throughout Newark’s five wards.
Veo’s 2023 rider survey found that 61% of its riders in Newark don’t own or have access to a car.
Officials say the city does not pay NewarkGo’s capital or operating costs, though it does share in the program’s revenues. A city spokesperson could not say Monday how much revenue the program generated.
Other New Jersey communities to adopt scooter and bike-sharing programs include Jersey City, Hoboken and Asbury Park, all rabidly developing urban areas looking for ways to relieve the congestion and parking shortages that accompany an influx of newcomers.
Thanks to that history, Baraka acknowledged when Newark launched its program that some viewed the bike or scooter rental fleets as a sign of gentrification. But he and others said the two-wheeled electric vehicles were by nature inclusive.
Jonathan Gordon, Newark’s interim sustainability officer, said GoNewark provides access to zero-emission vehicles to people who want to act locally to keep their air clean, slow climate change and preserve the planet but can’t afford a Tesla or even the lowest-priced electric car.
A Veo Micromobility electric scooter that's part of the NewarkGo rental program was left outside PSE&G headquarters on Raymond Boulevard Monday afternoon. Veo can track and collect its scooters anywhere using GPS technology.Steve Strunsky | NJ Advance Media For NJ.com
Philadelphia Parking Authority issues more than 300 tickets in first month of new bike lane enforcement unit
Public safety advocates want the city to step up even more
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By John McDevitt, KYW Newsradio
May 29, 2023
11:14 am
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Since the Philadelphia Parking Authority rolled out its inaugural class of bike patrol officers on May 1, tasked with enforcing regulations for cars parked in bike lanes, officers have issued more than 300 tickets.
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It’s been almost a month since the Philadelphia Parking Authority launched its new bike lane enforcement unit to patrol and enforce bike lane regulations in selected city neighborhoods. A political action committee is applauding the effort but would like to see the city do more to keep the...
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The unit has been patrolling three sections of the city — Center City and University City, where fines are $76, and South Philadelphia, where fines are $51.
Many applaud the effort to improve public safety and say PPA’s pilot program is a start in the right direction, but some want the city to step up even more.
“People who are using their bikes to get to work, to get their kids to school are always appreciative of any effort to make sure that cars are not parked in the bike lane, but ultimately there is just not enough enforcement right now,” said Dena Ferrara Driscoll, chair of 5th Square, a political action committee that focuses on public spaces, safer streets and zoning.
“What they are doing is really great, and we hope that they expand it and really start to crack down to make sure that it’s safer for folks to use the bike lanes.”
That includes a better parking management plan. The PAC wants a parking audit conducted of the whole city.
“At the end of the day, not everyone is not going to be able to park in front of their home,” Driscoll said. “And we should really make sure people understand that reality and understand what we can do.”
Driscoll said additional designated loading zones, concrete barriers, and a second curb between bike lanes and the street could help keep the lanes free of parked cars.
The PPA’s new team is made up of eight dedicated bike patrol officers. The agency expects to eventually expand the program to other parts of the city.
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Cyclists blast Italian government’s “extremely worrying” plans to introduce bike registration plates and insurance
But manufacturers say the reforms, which also include making helmets and bike indicators mandatory, are “more about stopping the spread of bicycles than increasing safety on the roads”
Cyclists blast Italian government’s “extremely worrying” plans to introduce bike registration plates and insurance
But manufacturers say the reforms, which also include making helmets and bike indicators mandatory, are “more about stopping the spread of bicycles than increasing safety on the roads”by RYAN MALLON
FRI, JUN 09, 2023 12:25
Less than a year since the UK’s then-Transport Secretary Grant Shapps pledged to bring in registration plates for cyclists, before almost immediately backtracking on his comments, his Italian equivalent has introduced a controversial road safety bill which would force cyclists to carry number plates on their bikes, pay insurance, and make helmets and indicators mandatory.
> Italy’s Deputy PM Salvini backpedals on number plates for cyclists
In a speech to the Italian parliament on Wednesday(link is external), transport minister Matteo Salvini outlined his plans to increase road safety in the country through legislation which he says will guarantee “more rules, more education, and more safety on Italian roads”.
Salvini, who leads the Lega party, which forms part of the right-wing coalition led by prime minister Giorgia Meloni, said that under the plans cyclists will be forced to wear helmets and carry licence plates and indicators on their bikes, while also paying insurance.
The bill also includes the introduction of lifetime bans for motorists found to be driving under the influence of drugs, the Times reports(link is external).
> Confusion as Grant Shapps now says he is "not attracted to bureaucracy" of number plates for cyclists
However, Salvini’s focus on cyclists, 154 of whom were killed in collisions with motorists on Italian roads last year, has been heavily criticised by campaigners and members of the bike industry.
The Lega leader has long been a critic of moves to introduce more safe cycling infrastructure, describing bike lanes in his home city Milan as “radical chic environmentalism” and a threat to businesses.
In September he told the Italian senate that many cycle lanes were being installed in “highly dangerous areas” with lots of traffic, thus “creating difficulty for cyclists, car drivers and the local police”.
Since Salvini was appointed transport minister following the election of Meloni’s government last year, significant budget cuts have led to funding being withdrawn from new bike lane projects.
And cycling campaigners reckon that this latest bill is yet another attempt by the transport minister to curb cycling in Italy.
> "Not at all surprised": Cyclists react to research showing riders wearing helmets and high-visibility clothing seen as "less human"
The bicycle manufacturers association, the ANCMA, which notes that the cycle industry in Italy generates an annual turnover of €3.2 billion, said in a statement that the proposed reforms(link is external) – which would be a first for Europe – are “extremely worrying” in a country which instead requires a “structural and educational commitment” to ensure the safety of its most vulnerable road users.
“This reform seems to be more about stopping the spread of bicycles than increasing safety on the roads,” the association said.
Meanwhile, the online cycling journal Bikeitalia also claimed that the legislation would simply have the effect of discouraging people to ride bikes(link is external), and challenged Salvini to “name one country in the world which obliges the use of helmet, number plate, insurance, and indicators for bikes: certainly in no country that promotes the bicycle as a means of transport”.
Bikeitalia also noted the minister’s apparent hypocrisy by highlighting how his mantra of “we won’t put our hands in the pockets of Italians” – which has led him to cutting excise duties on petrol and opposing speed cameras – doesn’t appear to stretch to cyclists.
And all that despite, as the website pointed out, Salvini himself dismissing a left-wing politician’s plan to introduce bike registration plates in 2015 as “crazy” on Twitter.
> “No plans to introduce registration plates” for cyclists, insists Grant Shapps
The Italian government’s plans to enforce tougher rules for cyclists comes less than a year after the UK’s then-transport secretary Grant Shapps caused a great deal of confusion after the Daily Mail reported that the Conservative cabinet minister had promised to introduce number plates for cyclists, a pledge that was almost immediately contradicted in a separate interview with the Times.
The Mail’s initial report, which claimed that Shapps said that cyclists should be insured, carry licence plates on their bikes, and be subject to the same speed limits as motorists, prompted something of a media frenzy, forcing the minister to backtrack on his comments.
In an interview three days later with LBC, Shapps insisted that there were “no plans to introduce registration plates” for bikes and that he was simply making a “wider point” that “it's got to be right to ensure that everybody who uses our roads does so responsibly”.
“What I was actually talking about at the time was cyclists who perhaps bust through red lights, we see that an awful lot,” he said.
“There is no way to prosecute a [cyclist] who might run into somebody else, and sometimes you get these very sad cases of death by dangerous cycling, and we are proposing to bring in death by dangerous cycling as a specific offence, along with other changes to car drivers and for other users of the road as well.
"So this is not a plan which is – as I think has been suggested – somehow going after cyclists.”
> “If mandatory safety measures are acceptable for car drivers, they should surely be acceptable for cyclists”: MP calls for cycling helmets to be made mandatory
The parliamentary debate over tougher cycling rules has not abated since Shapps’ climbdown, however, with a Conservative MP just this week calling for the government to make wearing a helmet while cycling a legal requirement.
Introducing a compulsory cycle helmet bill into the House of Commons, Mark Pawsey, the MP for Rugby, argued that if mandatory safety measures are acceptable for motorists, they “should surely be acceptable for cyclists”.
However, in December, the Department for Transport insisted that the government has “no intention” of making helmets mandatory, following a question from the Conservative MP for Shropshire constituency The Wrekin, Mark Pritchard.
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It's Time For Everyone to Stop Ignoring E-Bikes
Find out why it's crucial for reports to focus on the potential of e-bikes.
It's Time For Everyone to Stop Ignoring E-Bikes
A new report on electric vehicles barely acknowledges their existence.By
Lloyd Alter
Published June 3, 2022 08:53AM EDT
Fact checked by
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Politicians and planners are missing the e-bike revolution with their preoccupation with e-cars. Even the climate activists at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) did it. Now BloombergNEF's Electric Vehicle Outlook for 2022 has been released and—surprise!—it ignores e-bikes.
It's big on 2- and 3-wheelers (the mopeds, scooters, and tuk-tuks you find in Asia) and notes the staggering difference between the size of the e-car fleet compared to 2- and 3-wheeled electric vehicles (EVs).
But e-cars are still only 9% of sales and the e-car fleet is under 17 million worldwide, while the 2- and 3-wheelers are at 275 million, showing them at completely different scales on their illustrations.
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What, no e-bikes?.
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This description of "2- and 3-wheelers" seemed odd. Surely if you are looking at the state of electric vehicles, e-bikes should be mentioned, not excluded as the note at the bottom of the EV fleet sizes suggests. In the U.S. alone, e-bike sales were up 240% last year with 790,000 imported, compared to 652,000 electric cars, including plug-in hybrids. In Europe, e-bikes are projected to outsell cars by the middle of this decade, whether gas or electric powered. Deloitte recently predicted there could be 300 million e-bikes by 2023.
In a statement, Bloomberg NEF noted, "As EV uptake continues to grow, they are already displacing 1.5 million barrels of oil demand per day. Most of this is from electric two- and three-wheelers in Asia, but rising passenger EV sales push this to 2.5 million barrels per day by 2025. Overall, oil demand from road transport is now set to peak by 2027, according to BNEF’s findings, as electrification spreads to all other areas of road transport beyond passenger cars."
But again, no mention of e-bikes, even when they look at the need for alternatives to cars, whether electric or not:
BloombergNEF is a consultancy, "a leading provider of strategic research on the pathways for the power, transport, industry, buildings and agriculture sectors to adapt to the energy transition."3 But surely they read other Bloomberg properties which pays David Zipper to write in Citylab: "Every time an e-bike or e-cargo bike is used lieu of a car, society receives a cascade of benefits. Greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically lower, even if the car being replaced is electric. A two-wheeler consumes little street space and poses a negligible safety risk to other road users."
We asked e-bike-focused climate advisor Andrea Learned for her thoughts about this and she was characteristically blunt, telling Treehugger:
There is some better media coverage from Simon Kuper of the Financial Times. He gets the fact that change is in the air, writing about "the cheap green, low-tech solution for the world's megacities."
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It isn't just globally, but also in the U.S. According to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 60% of trips are less than six miles, and three-quarters of all trips are less than 10 miles. We have noted before that this is the fastest ride to zero-carbon; almost anyone can ride an e-bike for six miles under almost any conditions. If there were safe places to ride and secure places to park, then millions of car trips could be avoided, and millions of cars taken off the road. If only e-bikes weren't totally ignored.
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Back at the Financial Times, the commenters complain as they do in North America: "There’s always going to be issues of driving as a family, dropping kids at school, shopping for heavy items, rainy weather, etc. In the end it’s probably going to be a mix of electric bikes, electric scooters, electric cars, electric buses, lots of deliveries, more working from home, etc."
All of these are handled on e-bikes all the time. Lots of families travel together by bike. This family is doing a school run in chilly Minneapolis. I was caught in a thunderstorm yesterday and pulled my rain gear out of my pannier. My son-in-law carries dirt and flowers from the garden center. And that mix of electric vehicles that the commenter describes? This is the future we want.
We have been saying literally for years that e-bikes will eat cars and e-cargo bikes will eat SUVs. During the pandemic, we found that e-bikes were eating transit. It is truly time that politicians, planners, and BloombergNEF noticed.
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Live in south LA so I been riding gatorskins for years, they are a must for me to get through my area filled with glass n debris every where, plus the match the orange n yellow of my SynapseThinking of copping some gator skins this summer. It got mixed reviews tho
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Cycled 50miles the other day for the 1st time in years, my old synapse 105 still holding me down, my dad got one of those $5k+ Trek Ultegra's n now I feel like a broke boi next to him 
I got the itch to buy a new road bike, even tho I've also purchased an Ebike that's supposed to arrive soon and also an Echelon GT I use wen I come home at night from work to put a few miles in every night to drop this post wrist injury weight
I got the itch to buy a new road bike, even tho I've also purchased an Ebike that's supposed to arrive soon and also an Echelon GT I use wen I come home at night from work to put a few miles in every night to drop this post wrist injury weight
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I have to learn how to post personal pics without going the youtube route. I shared some nice pics that the coli server devoured.
I have to learn how to post personal pics without going the youtube route. I shared some nice pics that the coli server devoured.
Experimenting adding pics
