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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If electric bikes were the only thing allowed on back roads, it would work great.

Edit: yeah, it would involve extreme changes to bike design so that they could carry more things, and there is always a need for a tractor, a semi hauling things, and moving vans.

I suppose for rural cycling to work safely, it would need a network of separate paths, plus some bike lanes attached to the roads in strategic places.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

If electric bikes were the only thing allowed on back roads, you'd never be able to make enough grocery/dump/Tractor Supply runs to have time for anything else in your life.