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[quote=Anonymous]I’m so utterly disappointed in this trash article from the Atlantic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/08/ebike-electric-bikes-climate-change-exercise/671305/

“Currently, e-bikes are trapped in the weird smear between pathetic, loser bicycles and pitiable, low-end motorbikes. Especially in America, where bike infrastructure is far less developed than in the small, flat nations of Northern Europe that cycling advocates like to exalt as a model, e-bikes have become kind of a nuisance. Walking the streets of New York City, it now feels just as likely that you might get mowed down by an e-bike as a taxicab. “

Jeez.

It’s such a mischaracterization and I’m surprised at the uneducated stance that was allowed to be published. I’ve been enjoying my e-cargo-bike for 3 years as my primary mode of transportation. I love my bike, and love carrying my kids and all my errand loads in it. It’s all-weather, except the most hottest and humid and most rainy of days.

It’s a perfect solution for when you have children and live in a hilly area. The electric assist is a game changer in a country where the infrastructure is not there yet. And it is only in America where cycling is only seen as a recreation sport and not a mode of transportation.

I have never in all my years living in my area even heard of someone getting mowed over by a bike, but I have heard about many serious and fatal injuries where a car mowed down a pedestrian in our local area. Way too many.[/quote]

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