> One thing though is that our geography works well with biking
Right, 100%. I wonder if the cheap electric-assist bikes will make more countries / cities essentially “flat”
Right, 100%. I wonder if the cheap electric-assist bikes will make more countries / cities essentially “flat”
Edit: Huh, I hadn't read the article yet; it appears not to be about moped-/motorcycle-like scooters as I expected (because there has been an increase in such scooters in the Netherlands in the last five to ten years or so), but about electrified kick scooters. (Dutch uses different words for each (scooter and step), so I had no idea about the double meaning.)
Incidentally the one age group in the Netherlands with an increase in road deaths in recent years has been 65+. That's largely attributed to them using Ebikes to travel much faster, while having comparatively slow reaction times and less resilience to injuries sustained in the higher speed crashes.