Usually money

Straight male here. This response is excellent.

Why bots? Maybe people are genuinely interested in this software.

That was a roller-coaster.

I’m personally all for it, in my part of the world.

A fair chunk of bike riders are pretty sane and as good as you’d expect.

Then a large chunk are just terrible. They are mostly young guys, or kids, on the street, doing wheel stands at traffic speeds, with the traffic. Weaving all over the place. Riding on the road without any knowledge of road rules, nor regard for safety.

Yes, we can police them harder. In my opinion though, better to put a barrier to entry in place.

It doesn’t need to be a large financial burden, more one that separates the young, erratic and foolish riders, from the sensible ones.

It will be interesting to see what the fanboys and the apologists say to this. What is truly sad, is that it is only the people in the european union that get to do this. The rest of the world is locked under apple’s tight grip, with its dirty nails digging into us.

Just showed my wife. We laughed, and agreed. All the points are fair and a good thing, if required and or your thing.