Mulezen
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For this smart magazine a vapid and stupid article
The E-bike Is a Monstrosity
Neither bicycle nor motorbike, the two-wheeler’s future demands an identity of its own.
www.theatlantic.com
Sorry for the layout, but here it is: (and no, Solar-Karen, I am not putting this here because I hate ebikes, you on the other hand....)There is a paywall. Is anybody able to share the text?
I take it you don't normally read "the Atlantic". That or this is just the first article you've read in it where you have any authority or knowledge of what they're covering. They are some of the worst pandering to a narrow minded gullible audience this side of Fox News.For this smart magazine
Someone that thought getting an ebike would make them cool now doesn't like ebikes.
Someone else posted that link on here to justify their ebiker hate.
If you are referring to me, I posted that as an example of bias, not because I agreed with it. I am not an ebike hater, as you keep claiming.
Response to Atlantic article from Vice:
On Wednesday, The Atlantic published an article by Ian Bogost (a writer, game designer, and Director of Film and Media Studies at Washington University of St. Louis) about e-bikes. The gist of Bogost’s take is that he bought an e-bike, which is a bigger, heavier bicycle with a motor and battery, and feels weird about it. He says e-bikes have an “identity crisis” because they do not fit within any neatly defined buckets in American transportation and therefore don’t pass on any identity to their users.
The article was widely panned on Twitter, mostly by the usual pro-bike, pro-active streets, anti-car constituency. To be clear, I am a member of that constituency; I bike and walk and take public transportation everywhere (I do not tweet, though). However, I broadly agree with Bogost’s general point about e-bikes, but for entirely different reasons.
E-bikes do have a big problem in the U.S., one that I have been increasingly concerned about as someone who very much advocates for e-bikes and wants to see them take off in this country. It is related to Bogost’s point that e-bikes don’t quite fit with any American identity, but in a much more—literally—concrete way. E-bikes don’t belong anywhere in particular on American infrastructure, which makes them both more frustrating, more dangerous, and more annoying than they otherwise could be. And it’s unnecessarily generating friction between traditional cyclists and e-bikers despite their obvious shared interests in repurposing street space from automobiles.
Read more:
America Has An E-Bike Problem That Can’t Be Solved With More E-Bikes
The lack of appropriate infrastructure for electric mobility devices is making biking in cities worse.www.vice.com
Actualy, I rely on the government's "opinion" of what constitutes an ebike. Does Ariel give you something for pushing your minibike on the forum? I would never call that silly thing a motorcycle. I like motorcycles and ebikes. For the record, it's not the Ariel that they hate....Good thing we don't rely on some people's opinions on EBR as to what is and isn't an ebike.
I have heard my ebike called a motorcycle or moped by haters but obviously the ebike reviewers disagree.
Yep, it only takes one a-hole to undermine ebikes with their hate.
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Actualy, I rely on the government's "opinion" of what constitutes an ebike. Does Ariel give you something for pushing your minibike on the forum? I would never call that silly thing a motorcycle. I like motorcycles and ebikes. For the record, it's not the Ariel that they hate....
Water off a duck's back, right Karen?