My colleague has an electric scooter that can go up to 80km/h (limit is 20 here in switzerland, but often not respected). They have a small button to remove the limit and then…
Thank god, frick any one of those pieces of shit doing 50 on a sidewalk weaving through people. I’ve almost been hit so many times whether Netherlands, Germany or France. Best of all they’re the type of people to not use a bell.
In the Netherlands we are a binary people: you either own one of these bikes, or you cheer the police (or anyone else) for any giving the owners of these a hard time.
Fuck these things. Bloody 10 year olds ‘drive’ on them. Zero control, going 25km/h on and off the sidewalk. It’s a miracle that so few accidents happen.
And a lot are illegally modified so that you don’t need to pedal, which makes it not a bike but something that needs a license, license plate and helmet, and some sort of insurance. Which they don’t have, ofcourse.
People that have these so called fatbikes (fat because of the tires that are fat, not the people that use them) love them, everybody else hates them with a passion.
Slightly unrelated tangent but I find it very cool on how they have specialized equipment that’s reflective of their culture. Like how bicycles are a big part of it.
Because no one removing a governor would ever put it on a hidden switch.
Reed switches make some of the best hidden switches. As you can completely conceal them as they are actuated by bringing a magnet close to them. You can often hide them deep and just use a good neodymium magnet when you want to trigger the switch.
For context: These particular bikes showed up a few years ago and accidents have been going up, including a few ones that were lethal. The government was forced to take measurements to try and bring down the accidents, so now the police has to check if those electric fatbikes have been messed with.
Mind you this is nothing new, turn the clock back 20 years and you had teens doing the exact same thing with 2 stroke scooters. Yeah, young kids like going fast. Only difference with these bikes is that you dont need a helmet and even very young kids are riding them. So yes, cops checking these bikes is totally justified
These fatbikes are a real pain in NL. Kids of 13 years old with a removed speed limiter driving with their phone in their hand at 60kmh on a bike that weighs more than a grown adult.
what fucks me off about these ebikes despite being mega dangerous for everyone involved is that they are going to give good sade pedal assist ebikes with the appropriate motocap a bad name and they will end up regulated in a ridiculous way. Also my first thought when i see someone riding a bike with fat wheels like this is that they are a cunt.
Let me get something straight: this fatbike is NOT an e-bike as we Dutchies know them. These kinderbrommers (kid mopeds) is a complete new category bicycle which’ll require a helmet(!) which is crazy in the Netherlands and should honestly be banned for the safety concerns and anti-car kiss purposes
Illigal ebikes are becoming a problem everywhere, this is coming from somebody that owns an ebike.
If you are buying online it is very easy and sometimes cheaper to buy an ebike that does not adhere to any safety standard or class system than It is to buy a bike that conforms to the rules and regulations.
The answer is almost certainly ‘yes’, because a) that’s why 90% of people buy this particular type (and they have no issue with the anti-social stigma that comes with it), and b) police pick out those whos behaviour in traffic indicates they are likely suspects.
Yes, even in Amsterdam there’s a clear difference between the rest of us cyclists (who simply ignore most traffic rules for expedience) and these fatbike wankers.
Unfortunately it’s very hard to create a solid legal definition for “e-bikes obviously used by a-holes who are a danger to themselves and others”. We’ll just have to wait until enough people get seriously hurt.
I wish we banned them. Fucking horrible devices for kids.
For those that do not know, kids “over clock” them to go like 50km/h on it. Do not care for traffic rules and get themselves killed. And it is for once (many times at least) not the car drivers fault. They have dark clothing, no lights ..
Here in Canada, we don’t have any strict regulations for them. What pisses me off, is that they are going 30-50 km/h on the sidewalk. We don’t have as many bike paths here, so these idiots would rather run over children than keep up with traffic, which they very much do.
I have one. It has 5 speeds and in top speed it goes 50k/hr max on full electric. When I got it I thought COOL but after riding it … highest I’ll put it is 3rd gear – 32k/hr which is the legal limit here.
Seriously, for my safety and everyone else’s that’s as fast as these things should go.
Yeah good. These things and e scooters are dangerous as fuck. I had one and used it to travel to and from work for a year (talking into account safety like a quality helmet and hi vis and speed limited to 25km/h). They’re made out of the cheapest components possible and I learn that the hard way when the folding handlebar sheared off at the bolt and sent my flying out onto the road. Broken elbow, wrist, ankle and **degloved** the skin on both my hands.
Be careful. Don’t get one over 25km/h and don’t cheap out.
good, friend of mine got in collision on underpass where one zoomed extremely fast and it ended up my friend having to get 22 stiches to his skull and lost months of his life only because reckless operators.
Shit in my town you get a dui, lose your license, buy a weedeater engine bike or ebike, then refuse to obey any traffic law or use common sense while on the road, run lights and stop signs, get hit by a car, and then sell the bike to some other jerk off to repeat the cycle.
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They check E-scooters as well. Some of them can go up to 80kph.
These bikes are a huge problem in the Netherlands so good from the police 👌
That’s an electric scooter with pedals, and you don’t even need to use the pedals.
Standard practice which should be more frequent.
My colleague has an electric scooter that can go up to 80km/h (limit is 20 here in switzerland, but often not respected). They have a small button to remove the limit and then…
its a motorcycle really
Its got a motor.. its a cycle…
If removed, it goes from an e-bike to a wheee-bike.
Thank god, frick any one of those pieces of shit doing 50 on a sidewalk weaving through people. I’ve almost been hit so many times whether Netherlands, Germany or France. Best of all they’re the type of people to not use a bell.
In the Netherlands we are a binary people: you either own one of these bikes, or you cheer the police (or anyone else) for any giving the owners of these a hard time.
Fuck these things. Bloody 10 year olds ‘drive’ on them. Zero control, going 25km/h on and off the sidewalk. It’s a miracle that so few accidents happen.
And a lot are illegally modified so that you don’t need to pedal, which makes it not a bike but something that needs a license, license plate and helmet, and some sort of insurance. Which they don’t have, ofcourse.
People that have these so called fatbikes (fat because of the tires that are fat, not the people that use them) love them, everybody else hates them with a passion.
Slightly unrelated tangent but I find it very cool on how they have specialized equipment that’s reflective of their culture. Like how bicycles are a big part of it.
Because no one removing a governor would ever put it on a hidden switch.
Reed switches make some of the best hidden switches. As you can completely conceal them as they are actuated by bringing a magnet close to them. You can often hide them deep and just use a good neodymium magnet when you want to trigger the switch.
For context: These particular bikes showed up a few years ago and accidents have been going up, including a few ones that were lethal. The government was forced to take measurements to try and bring down the accidents, so now the police has to check if those electric fatbikes have been messed with.
Mind you this is nothing new, turn the clock back 20 years and you had teens doing the exact same thing with 2 stroke scooters. Yeah, young kids like going fast. Only difference with these bikes is that you dont need a helmet and even very young kids are riding them. So yes, cops checking these bikes is totally justified
I’ve seen so many kids on bikes like this and it’s infuriating.
Speed of a moped with zero training, license or road sense being ridden on pavements.
For a moment I thought he was on one of those coin operated bikes for kids
Those things annoy the F out of me. It’s mainly since the people who ride them here can’t behave.
[For anyone interested here’s a video of the enforcement in action.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lrEcvK0DSrM&t=17s&pp=2AERkAIBygUSUG9saXRlIGphbiBmYXRiaWtl)
(Skip to 3:18)
I guess this guy is some sort of police influencer/personality?
These fatbikes are a real pain in NL. Kids of 13 years old with a removed speed limiter driving with their phone in their hand at 60kmh on a bike that weighs more than a grown adult.
You won’t find police officers of this… weight class… in the USA.
There’s a big crackdown on E-Bikes/E-Scooters in the UK too. 🫡
My eggrider has a road and off-road mode and it can be locked from the app.
what fucks me off about these ebikes despite being mega dangerous for everyone involved is that they are going to give good sade pedal assist ebikes with the appropriate motocap a bad name and they will end up regulated in a ridiculous way. Also my first thought when i see someone riding a bike with fat wheels like this is that they are a cunt.
kut fatbikes, as we’d say in Dutch
Let me get something straight: this fatbike is NOT an e-bike as we Dutchies know them. These kinderbrommers (kid mopeds) is a complete new category bicycle which’ll require a helmet(!) which is crazy in the Netherlands and should honestly be banned for the safety concerns and anti-car kiss purposes
there’s a lot of things I hate about my country.
but at least this isn’t a thing here.
Those fucking fatbikes are the bane of my existence, I wish for them all to spontaneously combust.
A smart person would have a switch that toggles the speed limiter.
Regular cycles in Amsterdam run the risk of hitting objects, people and crashing into the canals, fuck taking the limiter off 😂
Illigal ebikes are becoming a problem everywhere, this is coming from somebody that owns an ebike.
If you are buying online it is very easy and sometimes cheaper to buy an ebike that does not adhere to any safety standard or class system than It is to buy a bike that conforms to the rules and regulations.
It says “V8” so I’m assuming.. yeah…it’s limiters been removed.
Real talk, where can I buy one of these devices? I assume its like a dynometer for ebikes?
Anyone knows the model? Looks cool
Hehe this is right outside Amsterdam Central Station. I’ve sat in that exact spot many times.
sorry for wasting the time of whomever reads.
Meanwhile I can’t get a fuckin cop to pull over douches doing 90 down a residential street in my city
The answer is almost certainly ‘yes’, because a) that’s why 90% of people buy this particular type (and they have no issue with the anti-social stigma that comes with it), and b) police pick out those whos behaviour in traffic indicates they are likely suspects.
Yes, even in Amsterdam there’s a clear difference between the rest of us cyclists (who simply ignore most traffic rules for expedience) and these fatbike wankers.
Unfortunately it’s very hard to create a solid legal definition for “e-bikes obviously used by a-holes who are a danger to themselves and others”. We’ll just have to wait until enough people get seriously hurt.
That’s a fatbike.
I wish we banned them. Fucking horrible devices for kids.
For those that do not know, kids “over clock” them to go like 50km/h on it. Do not care for traffic rules and get themselves killed. And it is for once (many times at least) not the car drivers fault. They have dark clothing, no lights ..
Terrible creation
Good
R/london definitely needs this. It’s bandit country now as far e-bikes are concerned.
Here in Canada, we don’t have any strict regulations for them. What pisses me off, is that they are going 30-50 km/h on the sidewalk. We don’t have as many bike paths here, so these idiots would rather run over children than keep up with traffic, which they very much do.
I have one. It has 5 speeds and in top speed it goes 50k/hr max on full electric. When I got it I thought COOL but after riding it … highest I’ll put it is 3rd gear – 32k/hr which is the legal limit here.
Seriously, for my safety and everyone else’s that’s as fast as these things should go.
It’s a dyno. They’re tuning it so the owner can do better burnouts.
Yeah good. These things and e scooters are dangerous as fuck. I had one and used it to travel to and from work for a year (talking into account safety like a quality helmet and hi vis and speed limited to 25km/h). They’re made out of the cheapest components possible and I learn that the hard way when the folding handlebar sheared off at the bolt and sent my flying out onto the road. Broken elbow, wrist, ankle and **degloved** the skin on both my hands.
Be careful. Don’t get one over 25km/h and don’t cheap out.
Good. I hate those e-bikes. So dangerous!
Where is that VW engineer. 😂
good, friend of mine got in collision on underpass where one zoomed extremely fast and it ended up my friend having to get 22 stiches to his skull and lost months of his life only because reckless operators.
OMG that’s a real thriller what was the conclusion? 😟
Shit in my town you get a dui, lose your license, buy a weedeater engine bike or ebike, then refuse to obey any traffic law or use common sense while on the road, run lights and stop signs, get hit by a car, and then sell the bike to some other jerk off to repeat the cycle.