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The opposite happens to me frequently because they have electric assist bikes and I don't. Holy shit that old boy is keeping up a pace- ohhhhh he's barely pedalling
I'm kinda envious to be honest
I'm torn between being jealous and annoyed because those things are basically motorcycles. There's a bike/pedestrian path near me that I often use and one of its rules is "no motorized vehicles," to the extent people get tickets for using those electric rent-a-scooter things on there. But apparently people zooming past at 40mph, 2 feet away from someone walking their dog, is fine, cuz technically it has pedals
They are at least a lot lighter than an actual motorbike, but yes there should be a line drawn on how fast they can go. The motors are capped at 15.5 mph / 25 kph here, which is a fast but manageable pace for a decent cyclist. Anything above that counts as a motorbike and has to be taxed and registered as one