I don’t know, it looks kinda swampy to me…

The wording is important.

The conversation was about trans women already. If your point is that it impacts not only trans women, but all women, then say that! Don’t frame it as if women and trans people are non overlapping groups.

The very point of the removal of protection is as an attack on trans women. So unless you were suggesting an impact on cis women too, I don’t understand why you would add “and women” when they were already at the centre of the discussion.

Your current wording implies that the term trans folk does not include women.

I presume you mean cis women?

Immich’s AI search is so much better than PhotoPrism

Piefed has feeds and topics.

They’re not expectations. They’re how I would like to see things work, because of how I use a bike. There’s literally no reason for this to be anything other than a conversation.

There’s nothing to “misaim”

Yeah, my current bike has a power scale setting. Adjusting the pedal assist directly adjusts the max power output. And at the 250W level, I work up a sweat whenever I push it.

Which, again, is fine, if the bike is just for exercise or commuting. But it stops it from being a viable car replacement.

Those bikes just rig the speed limiter

Yeah, it’s a huge problem in Australia. Mostly they have an unlock code in the electronic controller that lets you simply over-ride the speed limit. Some stores sell it already over-ridden, or just tell you how to do it.

But the other side of things is that Australia is a heavily car focused country, and whether they’re speed limited or not, whether they’re driven dangerously or not, they’re still far less lethal than cars, far less polluting than cars and far less wasteful than cars.

Making ebikes unappealing to people will just ensure none of that changes.

And the European standards are probably relevant in Europe, but they’re too conservative to increase ebike uptake here in Australia (or at least in Queensland, where I live). My state alone is 40 times the size of the Netherlands. And the city I live in has a comparable population to Amsterdam, but it’s spread over an area 6 times the physical size, with hills and a subtropical environment. We actually have pretty good cycling infrastructure as far as Australian cities go, but it’s nothing like what you have. So lots of our trips either need to be on the road, or on the footpath, and a 250W bike with a load going up a hill just isn’t safe on the road…

You don’t need to be condescending to get your point across. We’re having a discussion and disagreeing. The first sentence would have got your point across just fine.

In any case, I know it’s not a car. But at the moment, my ebike means I don’t need a car. I want a bike that lets me get through life without having to own a car. A 250W would mean that I’d have to call taxis and ubers more often. I couldn’t just carry shopping, or garden supplies etc home, without it becoming a sweat inducing workout.

I mean, I could do those things, but at 250W, I’m putting in a lot of the power myself. And I’ve already got my exercise covered. I don’t need to be changing clothes and taking a shower every time I ride up a hill on my bike.

See, that sounds absolutely perfect. Like you, I’d prefer 30 to 25, but whatever, that’s not a hill I need to die on. 25 does the job just fine too.

And I love the fact that the wattage reduces as your speed amps up, because that means you get the most power when you need it, when carrying loads, hitting hills etc.

I’d be quite ok with Australia adopting NSWs standards, because at that point, my ebike is still a viable alternative to car.

But at 250W it’s not.

You can drop the sarcasm. My roadbike has 15,000km on it. My ebike doesn’t even have a throttle. The only way to move it is to peddle.

But I live in a sub tropical region. It doesn’t snow here, and temperatures have been hitting 35C this week, before we have even hit summer!

When I used to commute to work on my roadbike, it was a workout. I’d get there covered in sweat, and feeling good.

But I don’t use my ebike for workouts. I use it for daily life because I don’t own a car. And if every time I need to carry a load, it turns in to a workout and requires a change of clothes, then it’s no longer suitable for day to day life, and instead, becomes a workout tool. But I’ve already got one of those, and it’s not why I bought an ebike.

I run. I cycle. My road bike has 15,000km on it. But I can’t do the things I need to do on a 250W ebike easily enough for it to replace a car in my daily life.

I could do all of the things you’re talking about if my goal was to give myself a workout, but when the goal is to use it instead of a car, 250W doesn’t cut it, because I’d be dripping in sweat and worn out half the time.

I’m old enough to be past my physical prime, and I don’t own a car. I use my ebike for everything. 250W is fine when your goal is exercise, or commuting, or the odd load here and there, but it just doesn’t cut it for every day use.

Before I owned my ebike, I had a regular road bike that I did 15,000km on. But the only time it got used is when I was commuting or “going for a ride”. It was completely useless as a tool in my daily life. My ebike though sees regular use for things that most people would use a car for, and things that a road bike just couldn’t do.

I have absolutely no problem with bikes being capped at 25km. And I have zero problem with taking away throttles above 6km/h too. I don’t want speed. I want something I can use to remain car free

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250 watts just isn’t enough. It can help you carry a load or it can help you up a hill, but not both. I wouldn’t even bother with an ebike at that wattage. 500 (like in NSW) is a much more sensible maximum.

It’s especially true given that wattage isn’t the real issue. Top speed is the issue and that can be capped independent of wattage.

This is why I use btrfs/snapper with pacman hooks

An apple in the hand is worth 4 doctors and 2 curious onlookers in a hospital?

I’m pretty sure Einstein just copied Hubbles test results

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