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If you care about safety, ride an e-bike

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Maybe you should check with nurses, emergency rooms, and healthcare. eBikes are second only to eScooters for injuries[0]. You're also far more likely to hurt other trail users.

On roads, speed doesn't always save you against other motor-vehicles, if that were true sport bike riders would never be hit. Behaving in a way that other road-users don't expect also puts you at risk (where did that bike come from?!)

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39042404/

The study does not control for distance traveled.

This is all hand-waving, to try and bolster the case for safer infrastructure for bicyclists (electric and not) which I of course also support.

Also, make sure that you never use the bike-lanes, only the walkways. This helps increasing your own safety by magnitudes!

Edit: Does maxmautner.com not have prefers-color-scheme detection?

No, what's that?

It's when a website automatically detects the user's preferred color scheme and adjusts the color scheme, accordingly.

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