Super Duper Garrett Cooper

I remember reading that certain ebikes in NYC were getting confiscated by police because they were unregistered or something, so the solution one person had was to make ebikes out of moped frames (which come with a vin, and can therefore be titled and licensed) to get around this. I think this was a while ago and maybe the laws changed, but I really feel for these delivery drivers who have to basically supply all their own infrastructure to work for these apps.

I love ebike stuff.. I am so pumped to be part of this world

huh, I've seen the handwarmer bikes a lot in nyc and wondered where I could get them!

what a cool insight! thank you for this poast

This is a really interesting article. I wonder if e-bikes are used at all by app delivery bikers here in Manila. Someone in a cycling Discord is considering doing app bike delivery for research. I live in a hilly part of Manila and I'm always kind of amazed to see delivery bikers tackling the hills everyday.

Thanks for this write-up, super interesting! Your point about bike storage is so true - in my area of London we have bike storage lockers, but they're all booked up with a waiting list, and our building hallway struggles to accomodate the two cyclists in our building (they are regularly texting one other because one bike is stored in a way that blocks another). We can't even take advantage of the bike sharing scheme, because there's no docks near us - they're almost exclusively in the center of the city or go across the "cycle superhighways" which basically just go to the old Olympic village in the east. It's extremely transparent how the thought behind a bike friendly city started and ended with the 2012 Olympics, and the rest of the city gets a couple of parking spaces turned into lockers.