One time, when I was about 30-years-old, I was trekking long distance and a 74-year-old guy named Jerry caught up to me. We road side-by-side for a while and talked and he invited me to ride into town with him. We rode until we encountered some people that were waiting for him and then we all rode into town and had dinner together.
Never saw him again after that. He was doing over 200 miles a day. I was doing a little over a hundred miles a day. Granted, he had a $5,000+ titanium frame bicycle and I just had some mediocre aluminum frame worth maybe $500.
Sure, you get some old people who run marathons, but you also have many that don’t get out for much exercise at all and ebikes (or 3 wheelers) can help them a lot. It’s also the most common legal form of ebike I actually see.
Otherwise a lot are using them illegally as an unregistered motorcycle down bike lanes. All illegal and barely ever enforced.
They’re banning ebikes to save big oil
That kinda sucks for the elderly or disabled, but anyone else can use a regular bike
One time, when I was about 30-years-old, I was trekking long distance and a 74-year-old guy named Jerry caught up to me. We road side-by-side for a while and talked and he invited me to ride into town with him. We rode until we encountered some people that were waiting for him and then we all rode into town and had dinner together.
Never saw him again after that. He was doing over 200 miles a day. I was doing a little over a hundred miles a day. Granted, he had a $5,000+ titanium frame bicycle and I just had some mediocre aluminum frame worth maybe $500.
Sure, you get some old people who run marathons, but you also have many that don’t get out for much exercise at all and ebikes (or 3 wheelers) can help them a lot. It’s also the most common legal form of ebike I actually see.
Otherwise a lot are using them illegally as an unregistered motorcycle down bike lanes. All illegal and barely ever enforced.