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mark burge

@markburge.ca

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🧰:4th year Cabinetmaker Apprentice 🎭: Long suffering Theatre Technician 🚴:bike commuter ⚜️:Scouter 🎲:TTRPG accessory maker 🎨: charity crafter Open to Commissions: but shoot me a message to talk about it. Vancouver

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mark burge @markburge.ca · Feb 2

I've had a few folks already hit me up about commissions in light of everything going on.

Short answer, we'll see what happens, right now I don't really have the time to think about it.

mark burge @markburge.ca · 7h

Vancouver

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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mark burge @markburge.ca · 9h

Most of them are- the reason thev’ve slapped on pedals is because the standard doesn’t exist in most cases for electro mopeds

mark burge @markburge.ca · 9h

Sure, and what I’m saying is in most jurisdictions there isn’t a legal place for e-bikes without pedals, which is regulation hole mainly because this type of product didn’t exist till now in a format that was accessible and affordable to normal people.

mark burge @markburge.ca · 9h

Then make them legal in the same class as mopeds and require the same requirements. Which is a regulation issue.

Most of the e-bikes we’re talking about could have their pedals removed without functionally changing the product and would likely be welcomed by industry.

mark burge @markburge.ca · 10h

It’s the double standard and one is by several magnitudes far more dangerous than the other.

mark burge @markburge.ca · 11h

Remember, 5.3 people are killed every day by motor vehicles in Canada. There aren’t widespread movements to put speed limiters on motor vehicles.

Just some context that any #ebike news story should have when advocates against ebikes are interviewed.

tc.canada.ca/en/road-tran...

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mark burge @markburge.ca · 12h

Happy “Champlain heights trails possibly heading towards being a park” day. 50 or so years after they should have been.

council.vancouver.ca/20251008/doc...

#vanpoli

council.vancouver.ca

mark burge @markburge.ca · 12h

If the fees are too high people just aren’t going to register them, and considering we already don’t enforce many road laws, police aren’t going to be chomping at the bit to crackdown on unregistered bicycles

mark burge @markburge.ca · 12h

Again, anytime licensing for bikes or registration has come up, it has always cost more to administer the program than it has brought in.

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mark burge @markburge.ca · 13h

But that’s regulatory issue than can be dealt with in time.

mark burge @markburge.ca · 13h

Every time bicycles registration or licensing has been attempted for bikes it’s cost government more than it’s brought in.

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mark burge @markburge.ca · 13h

Sure, but you understand that the risks are not even remotely the same right and comparing the two is dishonest, right?

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mark burge @markburge.ca · 22h

The best part about my neighbourhood is the local bike gang. The average age is about 10 and it’s the most wholesome thing- there’s about 15 I’m guessing and they just ride around like they own the place.

#vancouver #bikeyvr

mark burge @markburge.ca · 1d

Bluesky, please let me edit posts.

mark burge @markburge.ca · 1d

That was pretty much it be honest for most of it.

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mark burge @markburge.ca · 1d

People I wouldn’t want to play poker with: Mark Carney.

His pokeface in the oval today was astonishing.

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mark burge @markburge.ca · 1d

It is astounding how much negative ebike press has come out in the past few months, it almost as if they represent a real threat to the car industry.

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 1d

Funny how 50,000 people are killed on our roadways in cars every year and you spend 5 minutes on a bike en route to the safest means of travel available by car (train) and they gotta harangue you about a helmet without any knowledge of how you ride or what the route is like

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mark burge @markburge.ca · 2d

I think my skin colour might have something to do with it too.

Also my terrible pronunciation of Japanese. I got really good at saying sorry though.

mark burge @markburge.ca · 2d

On one hand, I’m glad it’s not just us. On the other hand they’re making bank knowing that folks can’t really fight it.

mark burge @markburge.ca · 2d

Sports fans wearing there favourite teams jersey or sweater is cosplay.

Same energy.

mark burge @markburge.ca · 2d

Boooo!

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

This is the main issue I have with so much of the coverage around e-bikes. It's not that there aren't legitimate issues. But there is a panic around e-bikes and crickets regarding the daily toll of cars. And that's because the harm of cars is just accepted. It's baked into our society.

AB @ab-cabra.bsky.social · 2d

The deference we give to drivers is astonishing: speeding, blowing through red lights, crashing without a whisper; yet we jump on non-drivers the moment they step out of line.

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mark burge @markburge.ca · 2d

We're going to london later this week! what are we forgetting to pack, or beyond the typical touristy things where should we go?

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mark burge @markburge.ca · 2d

Second time for me- I previously spent about two weeks there, but that was 20 years ago