The existential crisis of living on the planet Earth in the year 2023 is already a lot to handle, but combine that with being a bike enthusiast & the grief that each cyclist carries with them every day, & it's like walking around in a weighted suit. RIP Mark. #BikeTooter #ItsTheCarsStupid #TrafficFatalities

https://bikeportland.org/2023/08/07/manager-of-mt-hood-skibowl-killed-while-bicycling-down-timberline-hwy-377924

Found via Bike Portland- an article about why kids should be allowed to ride #ebikes.
I mostly agree with the author's perspective, but not as a parent, but as someone who believes in #YouthLiberation: kids are people. Ebikes appeal to, and are useful to kids for the same reasons they do to adults. Ebikes are fun and make biking longer distances and up hills more doable. Denying this to young people is controlling and unfair. The fact that many ebikes are poorly suited for kids (too heavy, too tall, difficult to control with smaller hands) is not the kids fault. And if the "problem" is that ebikes will encourage more kids to ride on roads and be more likely to get hit by cars, the solution is *never* to restrict kids from riding bikes! #ItsTheCarsStupid #FuckCars

My own aside, not related to linked article:
Hand wringing about kids on ebikes also usually ignores the fact that dirt bikes for kids have existed for decades. They seem to think that kids controlling powered 2-wheeled vehicles is a new phenomenon (maybe because they are not country folk who are aware of junior dirt bike racing?)

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/fitness/opinion-yes-your-kid-should-have-an-e-bike