[quote=Navydoc]By the way, wanted to go back to the safety aspect. My last year in San Diego I was riding from Stonebridge to Balboa on an ebike conversion I built myself (would probably meet your performance requirements scaredy). I was absolutely clobbered on Pomerado road, apparently near the light at Semillon. I have no memory of it. Woke up 2 1/2 hours later at Sharp Memorial. Those of you who know the road know there’s a generous bike lane. The person that hit me didn’t stop, and they never caught them. The police got 2 phone calls, one stating they just saw a car hit a bike, and the other said they just saw a biker flip over their handlebars (I think that might have been the person who hit me). I’ve always theorized that the reason they didn’t stop was because they may have thought they killed me. I’m sure I went down in a heap, and didn’t move.

The point is, I’m not sure that Pomerado could be made any safer for bicyclists, especially with inattentive and inconsiderate drivers. However, I can’t stop biking to work, I don’t feel like myself when I don’t do it. But the infrastructure we have is not bike friendly, and this is one of the MOST bike friendly cities in the country.[/quote]

That is a wild story, glad you survived. My teen daughter wants an ebike so bad like all her friends. I personally find it nuts that all these parents let their kids ride around town on streets that are basically highways with 50 mph speed limits and so many drivers distracted by their phones. Seems completely unsafe to me. Haven’t given in…yet.