As in I would rather ride a motorcycle on the road than a bike. On bike trails, a regular bicycle is great. Where there are very few cars or very good bike lanes, electric assist bicycles make sense to me. But when you have bicycles going at car speeds mixed with cars, but without good brakes, without turn signals, etc. I would be very nervous to get on one. They aren’t built for that speed and roads aren’t designed to handle them. Moreover, most drivers don’t expect them. I can be on a 900 lb motorcycle and still be invisible to some drivers. Now imagine what I look like on a tiny bicycle that’s zooming at 3x the speed most expect from it.
