2026-04-29 19:23 UTC
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@mbonsma@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 19:26
These rates are an order of magnitude higher than injury rates for driving in Canada, by comparison (0.3 injuries or fatalities per million km in 2023). But I would argue that per distance is not the right comparison for cars vs. bikes, and something more like rate per trip would be better. Canadians drive something like 15,000 km per year on average. Bike commuters' average trip is 20 minutes, so even if you biked to work every weekday, you would still be under 4000 km biked for the year.
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@Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 2026-04-29 19:29
@mbonsma@mastodon.social Wow, that's wild. I can think of so many confounding factors (eg, people on ebikes using them for transportation and sticking to bike-friendly routes vs people on acoustic bikes being more adventurous and going on less safe routes. Or people with ebikes being wealthier and being able to afford to live in safer, more bike-friendly parts of town versus acoustic bike owners being poorer. Or or or..). But either way, still completely unexpected!
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@ansible42@social.ridetrans.it 2026-04-29 19:31
@mbonsma@mastodon.social is the speed limit in that it stops(motor breaking) you from going over 25 or it just stops applying additional current to the motor at 25?
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@harald@mementomori.social 2026-04-30 06:25
@mbonsma@mastodon.social maybe an e-biker has more oxygen available for balance and risk-assessment? Especially in a hilly environment.
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@zerodivision@fediscience.org 2026-04-30 07:24
@mbonsma@mastodon.social well, before diving into all sorts of explanations here, why not state the obvious that the study contains *no* statistical significance analysis? So maybe we should just stick to: we cannot say whether the injury risk associated with e-biking is any different from that of regular biking?
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@sotolf@polymaths.social 2026-04-30 08:17
@mbonsma@mastodon.social Norway joined the EU?