traingang

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.