E- bicycles

[Pondrew]

Where I live the landscape is as 'flat as a witch's tit'. There are no hills for miles.
Everybody is encouraged to ride push bikes to reduce pollution, keep everyone fit, blah blah blah.

All I now see bloody everywhere is push bikes doing around 40mph with no physical exertion required. They are all electric. How's that helping?

E-bikes are expensive to buy, require electricity to charge them (still made up of burning coal) and give no health benefit to anyone!
Oh and of course to be 'trendy' you have to ride with no hands

[MikeyH]

No effort, sounds good to me. When I’m out on the moors in my Zed and I see all the silly sods on their bikes struggling up the hills, blocking my way, I think where the hell is the fun in that. Not for me. We have very big hills around here by the way.

[buzyg]

Don't get me started on e-bikes.

[Pondrew]

Don't get me started on e-bikes.

Go on......

[Rockhopper]

An E bike as an electrically assisted pedal bike (so the motor does nothing unless you pedal at the same time) and is limited to 15mph (or close to that). Once you start exceeding that speed it becomes a motorbike and you need tax, insurance, number plates, helmet etc etc. Loads of illegal "E-bikes" for sale on Ebay etc.

[MikeyH]

So, it’s still hard work then

[Rockhopper]

Even more so when the battery goes flat as E Bikes are stupidly heavy!

[john-e89]

Couldn't have gone to work all last year without mine unless spending 4k at least on taxi's.

They help folk get excercise, you can use the motor as much or as little as you want, most have 4 power settings, so eco setting barely gives any assistance so is just like riding a normal bike, saves using the car if you have the time and want to cycle if you have health issues, can't see any problem with them personally. Fastest I went was 34mph downhill freewheeling on my hybrid, cross between a road bike and mountain bike.

[r2uzenblot]

I'm nearly 70 and live in Shropshire's finest hilly countryside and love to cycle. Without an electric bike I would have given up cycling. For just over 2K I get a 60 mile (hilly) range and still do 40 miles in a morning. And no....... it has not been 'adjusted' to power without me pedalling, which is still hard up some of our hills.

[biZ4rreMids]

I love cycling mainly around the Peak District on a non electric bike although that love can soon disappear on some of these bloody hills!

[brillomaster]

You need an ebike Revolutionised mountain biking for me. I hate riding up hills, an ebike allows you to cruise up hills assisted, and then hammer down as normal. Theyre perfect for slogging up a fireroad, a climb that would take an hour before can be dispatched in 20 minutes.

[Chris_D]

Kids doing only 2-3km to school and back on e-bikes, with their noses embedded into the screens of their fekin phones weaving all over the bike lanes are the bain of my life here in NL at the moment.
Lazy, entitled, detached, dangerous little fekkers!

[Nanu]

If god had intended us to ride bikes he wouldn't have invented cars.

Leave well alone and save yourself some money

[inkey$]

For those that have them, what e-bikes do you have? Always intrigued me, as an ex-MTB whose knees now couldn't really handle a Welsh fire road in 2023

[r2uzenblot]

Kids doing only 2-3km to school and back on e-bikes, with their noses embedded into the screens of their fekin phones weaving all over the bike lanes are the bain of my life

Women on the school run doing only 2-3km to school and back in their SUV's, with their noses embedded into the screens of their fekin phones weaving all over the bike lanes are the bain of my life! Just saying.