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I’m annoyed that it’s not out of the realm of possibility that non-car transport could be officially labeled radical and gay and I could get harassed by cops just for riding my bike
Car brained people think people who ride bikes are all lycra wearing millionaires
"Riding a bike" has become a reliable enough social marker for someone cops would love to harass, that I'm surprised that it doesn't already happen constantly. Especially if they want to just make up laws-of-the-road on the fly to justify it.
With ebikes taking off, at least the local police have adapted using electric mountain bikes. I'd prefer they not exist at all but if they exist it's nice that they aren't driving illegally in a heavy vehicle reinforced to ram other ones. Right now high speed chases are the American equivalent of gladiator fights and the cop cars do whatever they want on the road and across greenspace. My ambient safety goes up if they're just crashing bicycles.
However they don't care at all about bike theft or crime against cyclists. We have organised chop shops sending the parts out of state, but even the open ones are ignored for weeks. It's our local boomers who lose their shit over ebikes and cyclists more generally. Nextdoor is just a million Martin Luthers listing 95 reasons why they're mad and why they should get to kill cyclists for making them mad.
I was going to argue that it’s good that e-bikes exist but then I realised you were talking about cops
I'd much rather they have to use manual penny farthings to punish themselves for existing. To me it's just the same logic as giving them military-grade weapons or batons. They're still the same horrible people with the baton but they're more limited in their collateral damage. The most dangerous traffic hazards here are their cars.
I agree with you lol, I just like ebikes for non-cop civil mobility
Back when I commuted by bike, I got harassed by cops all the time. But more because where I live, non-car transport is considered "poor and therefore probably criminal" rather than "radical and gay".