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Tim Talks Bicycles with Patented

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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Electric Bikes - Where Are We Going to Be With a Bike?

Electric bikes have come from nowhere, they're clearly game changers. There is a movement in favour of cycling in cities called critical mass. The more cyclists there are, the safer each individual cyclist is. And i think with er, you know, with an electric bike on roads that feel safe, the vast majority of the population in a country like the u k Is going to beable to get around by bike. Don't houth you need the car, because all the journeys are five miles or less. It'll be very interesting to see whether we get there. I don't know that we will. But that seems to be an interesting possibility.

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