Last September, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB-1271, which redefines and adds to several electric bicycle regulations in…
Last September, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB-1271, which redefines and adds to several electric bicycle regulations in…
Unless you mean trying to do 60 to 0km/h over a few meters is harder to stop without being launched, there is no way there is any notable limit to braking power. I can easily stop in half what a small car can do in any conditions, and less if I hang off the back and squeeze the seat with my thighs really hard to not launch over the bars. I could probably push it even more and do even shorter but it would need a lot more traction and front vs rear weight considerations and wear the tires super fast.
Now teach this to the senior citizens here who have learned to run their ebikes at top speed without having the skills to control it.
And in case you wonder, they brake with the power they remember from riding a normal bike many years ago.
I dunno, I guess its a regional thing. I live between a couple popular areas for downhill. all the old guys I worked with are downhill mtb and road racers. they taught me the advanced braking among other things.
I also don’t get the brake memory thing because hydraulic disc brakes on my first adult bike are way stronger than my kid bike rim brakes from when I was in school and I stopped full power and did that front wheel down rear wheel in the air thing on my second or so ride. Even cable brakes on my brother’s ebike stop strong but just feel worse.
Maybe it is. We had several issues and accidents here with elder people and ebikes that resulted from loss of control or insufficient brake use. Of course those bikes have hydraulic disc brakes here, too, but my personal theory is that many older riders who grew up with rim brakes are afraid to use modern braking systems because they are so powerful.
So the list of ebikers hitting something (mostly in the dark), running off the road in curves, or hitting people (often in places where they did not belong in the first place, like pedestrian zones) has become a real issue here.
Most of it is either self-inflicted, or accidents with pedestrians where the biker is at fault.