JackBurton
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I've loved biking my whole life, since a kid. Used to ride to work.
In middle age I was riding this just for fun. Always leaned casual/recreational vs hardcore with biking.
But in my 40s, my CMT (hereditary neuropathy) started to get the best of me and I started to get some serious range anxiety.
So about 7 years ago I got my first ebike, on a whim. It was a major investment and I wasn't sure how much I'd use it but I wanted it for recreation and needed it to stay active. I shopped for bikes. Several local shops carried them but the scorn and hatred that the traditional biking community has for ebikes and ebikers is a major turn off. Everyone calls ebikes 'cheating'.
But Im lucky there's an ebike-focused shop nearby and I got this Bintelli:
Took my toddler for many, many awesome rides with this. Got to know this bike. Im a big guy and it was always a bit underpowered but I discovered how amazing ebikes are. I took a bunch of late-evening summer rides on our paved-trails here and had some near-religious moments.
So this week I scrounged up the funds to upgrade. Got it at the local shop again. Loving it. This is what I originally needed.
Preaching to the choir but I feel kind of frustrated and forced to proclaim: Ebikes aren't cheating. They are pure fun. I dont bother talking shop with regular spandex/bike dudes. They don't understand and they don't want to. They feel too much scorn to think clearly about it.
In middle age I was riding this just for fun. Always leaned casual/recreational vs hardcore with biking.
But in my 40s, my CMT (hereditary neuropathy) started to get the best of me and I started to get some serious range anxiety.
So about 7 years ago I got my first ebike, on a whim. It was a major investment and I wasn't sure how much I'd use it but I wanted it for recreation and needed it to stay active. I shopped for bikes. Several local shops carried them but the scorn and hatred that the traditional biking community has for ebikes and ebikers is a major turn off. Everyone calls ebikes 'cheating'.
But Im lucky there's an ebike-focused shop nearby and I got this Bintelli:
Took my toddler for many, many awesome rides with this. Got to know this bike. Im a big guy and it was always a bit underpowered but I discovered how amazing ebikes are. I took a bunch of late-evening summer rides on our paved-trails here and had some near-religious moments.
So this week I scrounged up the funds to upgrade. Got it at the local shop again. Loving it. This is what I originally needed.
Preaching to the choir but I feel kind of frustrated and forced to proclaim: Ebikes aren't cheating. They are pure fun. I dont bother talking shop with regular spandex/bike dudes. They don't understand and they don't want to. They feel too much scorn to think clearly about it.
