they probably have it stashed all in one place or multiple places

This does read as if you’re mad no matter what they do.

I was told the reason is so that men can better undress their female partners. Which is of course problematic, but I think a better explanation than “men dressed themselves, women didn’t”.

It’s easy, we create a problem with AI, and the best solution is to use even more AI, and when everyone is dependant on it to manage digital infrastructure that used to function for decades, then we raise the price.

Tunic is great, it really is a love letter to the instruction manual and note taking. The combat was so satisfying to improve at as well.

“We take these failures seriously and will hold those to account who fail to keep their workers and other people safe.”

… I know a great article that proves otherwise.

I would go and tell on you for using aborteddreams image, but they probably already live off the grid in a cabin in the woods.

In the US perhaps, over here we are proud to dismiss anyone with anxiety regardless of gender, women in particular get instead dismissed with period cramps or potential pregnancies! /s

Admiral comes from Arabic “amīral”. “Amir” means king, prince, chief, leader, and “al” is the definite article, in English “the” (compare algebra or alchemy).

So admiral means “leader of the”, the Arabic for “leader of the sea”, Amīr al-Baḥr, was too long to survive the whole game of telephone.

Sucks to be a marsupial in a placental mammal world.

If the “it” is a network, not just a single path.

If you just connect 1 parking lot to the next and leave it at that, no one is going to use it even if you did your best to make it non-hostile to whatever mode of transport.

I got myself a broken, 12 year old, 2nd hand e-bike for 100€. The battery still lasted a year, then I replaced it for 150€. It has since become my main mode of transport.

At this point it’s not even counterculture, but good economic thinking. I need to help repair broken bikes for my family to not feel like a dirty Capitalist for how much money this thing saves me nowadays.

So bikes may not be the cheapest hobby, but if you get so into it that you do your own repairs, its worth every hour in terms of money and fullfilment.

But your facts based on data were for other questions, questions I didn’t ask, you do realise that? If I had asked how many fatbikes were illegally fast, you’d have nailed it, but it didn’t answer anything on if they were tuned or not.

I know it is only an estimate, but why are you being so hostile about that? I had a specific question, you found some sources that showed related facts, but nothing on your original claim. I appreciate that effort. I now find a rough estimate, do you have a reason to doubt it? Why?

I believe at this point, you are just being angry at me for the sake of it. Take a breather, I assure you everything I wrote was genuine, I am just particular about this 1 question. If you don’t see the point, that’s fine.

I am not entirely satisfied with an estimate either, but it is something to go off.

Oh, but I did find a (German) source for my question right now: “According to estimates by police and experts, five to ten percent of e-bikes in Germany are tuned.”

I am cautious of trusting a police union on this without any source, but it is at least something.

So now you can specify: “Less than 10% of e-bike riders remove or know a guy to remove the limiter”, since of course this was an estimate on tuning in general.

If you don’t want to believe something that’s fine but that doesn’t change the fact that it is true.

But you never showed anything that said it is true, you are the one believing without checking for the facts. I am the one saying: I don’t know if people actually go out of their way to tune their e-bikes. If you are sick of searching for sources, all you need to say is “I don’t know, I just feel like a lot of people get their limiter removed, I don’t have any sources on that.”

How about you find me some numbers about

You cannot ask me to prove a negative, everyone knows that.

In the context of mandating a limiter being built in by law, it is important to distinguish between people who get the limiter removed, and people who buy bikes which never had a limiter, because group 1 spends effort or money to make their bike illegal, and the group 2 doesn’t spend to make their bike legal.

I agree, in the context of “people drive illegally fast”, this does not matter.

Who removed the limiter matters to me, you can think differently, but I’m not budging on this. Your link does claim that it is big business, but admits there are no figures for how many bikes are modified with these kits. Because no one is giving any numbers, I’m the one saying it could be 1 friend installing kits and removing limiters from 6 people in the whole Netherlands.

All I want is the numbers, because until then “people just pay a guy who knows a guy to remove the limiter” just rubs me the wrong way if it might as well be “companies illegally sell limitless bikes anyway”.

I concede, they know when the bike is seized. But what I meant is that they could be unaware when they buy it, or at least claim that.

And if my translation is accurate, this other source also doesn’t answer if they alter the bike by getting someone to tune it, or if they were illegal to drive the moment they got their hands on the bike. It claims more than half were modified, but the cited report just says that they were faster than allowed. Bad headline!

Again, you said people buy a lawful vehicle and just know a guy that removes limiters. That is something I have trouble believing. I say, it’s far more likely that Amazon will sell a bike that naturally goes faster, like the 20mph ones that are legal right now in California, to anyone, and regions with stricter rules for e-bikes have people who don’t know or don’t care.

This distinction is important to me, because it shifts the blame from big manufacturers and warehouse corporations who knowingly sell illegal bikes to thousands, to some backyard garage that helped like 6 friends get more power. If the goal is to make our streets safer, going after the thousands will do way more. If truly half of people know someone to remove or remove their limiters themselves, it would be a different story, but all these sources say is that half of used fat bikes are illegal.

Hold on, it does not say why those bikes were seized. It does not say anything on if they had no limiter, a thottle or if they were manufactured to go faster. But that is what I’m asking about, is the manufacturer/importer breaking the law or is it the consumer? Well, the consumer is either way for using it, but they could be just unaware. You know what I mean, it is different if you deliberately mess with the electronics to go faster.

The VVN spokesperson saying “the limiter can easily be removed” doesn’t convince me either, is that a huge problem or an edge case?

Is there any credible source on around half of fat-bikes have their limiters removed?

Class 1 isn’t getting licenses.

Class 3 isn’t slowed down.

Great headline, I wonder why people are confused about if the e-bike they buy is illegal or not.

Read the article, please.

Class 1 e-bikes stay without license.

Class 2 and 3 get licenses,

Class 1 and 2 are slowed down to 16 mph (25kmh), currently 20 mph (32 kmh)

Class 1 is analogous to EU pedelecs - you need to pedal for assist. Class 2 has a throttle instead. Class 3 is for higher speeds and children are not allowed to drive them.

What further category do you want?