Exactly, make sure that there is a curb between the road and the bicycle lane where possible, improve crossings/intersections, legislation, etc. There are lots of possibilities to improve safety without making it less appealing to use a bicycle.

theres a push for e-bike registration, insurance and liscensing where I live, but theres an important distinction between e-assist bicycles and this other type that you dont even pedal and can do 35-40kmph. e-assist wont need to be registered etc, where as these borderline electric motorcycles will

Depends on what kind of bike is in question. There's a difference between pedal assisted ebikes and electric motorbikes. I feel like it's more than appropriate to require a licence and insurance for a bike that goes over 20mph and doesn't need pedaling.

All good information.

I laughed at

sedimentary behavior

I too try not to settle down at the bottom of lakes and rivers...

Studies have shown that imposing restrictions like this simple decrease participation which in turn adds to sedimentary behavior which is a lot worse for you in the end.

I wonder if that's the idea. Nip e-bikes in the bud before they become a serious competitor to cars.

3. Studies have shown that imposing restrictions like this decrease participation

This is also a big problem since cycling is a lot safer when there are more people cycling

We need a metamorphic society.

Gneiss points overall.

20mph (~30km/h) in my state, 28mph (~45km/h) if it has a speedometer. If it assists above that, you need it to be registered (license plate) and have a motorcycle license.

I think that's fair. That basically restricts you to driving on side streets with cars, or on the side of the road on higher speed roads. Most shops only sell the 20mph bikes, so it's really a non-issue.

30 km/hr in Canada. Which I think they copied from California.

The trouble is that they are very easy to hack and and just remove that safety figure. In the UK non-assist ebikes must be registered and a motorbike license is required. I would say over 50% of the ebikes I see are illegal, along with all the illegal scooters. I can derestrict my ebike in a matter of seconds because it's just a setting in the app.

A little basic road rules so that they aren’t behaving "unpredictability " to cars.

The moment you start adding these rules for "safety", the quicker car drivers will find themselves exempt of guilt if they get involved in an accident that could be avoided if the driver was paying more attention.

Most importantly I want helmets actually being enforced. Normalized.

Take a look at the Netherlands, see how many people use helmets.

The more barriers you require from people to use a particular mode of transportation, the less people will use it. We need to increase the amount of requirements to drive cars, less from cyclists. "Enforcing helmets" is counterproductive.

These kind of bastards is what gives us fellow ebike enjoyers a bad rep. Now I'm not saying "we aren't all like that", however, isn't it the whole point? Like I mean there are enough of these menaces to warrant some sort of prohibition. But then isn't it also a kind of diversion from the main topic of corrupt city planning and availability of proper bike lanes? I mean sure go ahead and blame it on the end user, not the provider.

I'm interested to understand how you this a license would.habe prevented this incident? I'm not criticizing you at all, I just think nothing would have been different in that scenario - fast and furious wanna best wrap themselves around telegraph poles all the time and the mostly all had licenses.