No.
Imagine the CEO who thinks, "The guy who rides his electric bike into the ocean-- yeah, that's the customer we're targeting!"
I hate this cartoon as it is anti e-bike and very wrong. The true fact is the traditional cyclist has just bonked and his thoughts are sad and dark. He is jealous and thinks it would be good to swap bikes with the other guy to the end of the ride.
(It was me to take those photos, meaning I was waiting for the group I had been riding with. How come?)
Nahhhhh. It isn't anti ebike! It plays off the fact that people have range anxiety in everything battery powered. I can be building something with my drill driver and I'll get to the last of the fasteners and try to squeeze out every watt so I don't have to run for a battery. My TV remote will tell me the battery is low, but I just sat down after a long day. I'll put it off and hope it lasts the evening. And I'll be riding, I might decide to extend my ride, hoping the battery lasts.
I beg to disagree, as this cartoon is mostly being posted by e-bike haters.It's not an attack on ebikes, it is a reality of modern living
A traditional cyclist on a long ride mostly thinks of being properly nourished and hydrated. They hate headwind and climbing the hills. They get spent in the course of the ride. While any aware e-biker knows his battery range precisely, and does not need to be worried about it. The e-biker spends his own energy equally during the whole ride, that is, he is not tired more on the finish line.
The lovely hippy chick who took her new eBike to Burning Man '23 went with an extra capacity new loaner battery to supplement hers. I think you are on to something @J.R. I wanted to send it to the Grand Canyon this week for a landscape photographer and when she found out she had to buy it. Our town is 4 square miles. That kind of range is just not needed but I think it was the more is better mentality that is so pervasive. For me less is more. It is all about getting to the Zen Garden of less.
It's so flat in N. Dakota you can watch your dog run away for two days!
I had to live there for one year. The worst part was that dust storms would cover the 35 below snow then you would catch intestinal worms. Flat forever. No water but a small river that went the wrong direction. There were nuc silos, sugar beets, and strodes. It was hot in the Summer and bitter cold in Winter. Sonoma is so much better.
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That's pretty much how I work. I work at investment casting company with the wax dies. I usually start with the 6" pry bar to separate the dies, troublesome parts may require the 12", sometimes I have to work up to a two and a half foot pry bar.
