"Sons of Angioplasty" or "Seniors on Bikes" - which one is for you?

[goldconch]

For now, my alliance is going to be reserved for the quiet and gentle e-bike counterculture movement called "Park the Cars".

We won't travel in packs with ominous finger-snapping, or have jean jackets, age-discrimination, or initiation rights. Officer Krupke won't even know who we are. There's no clever double entendre acronym. All are welcome.

Just one mantra: "let's try to dial back on using our fossil-fuel burning vehicles when we don't really need them".

Discretionary duty: "to let other road users, who have perhaps never ridden an e-bike (and may not yet understand), try out ours for a couple minutes, whenever asked, and time permits"

 

[Art Deco]

For now, my alliance is going to be reserved for the quiet and gentle e-bike counterculture movement called "Park the Cars".

We won't travel in packs with ominous finger-snapping, or have jean jackets, age-discrimination, or initiation rights. Officer Krupke won't even know who we are. There's no clever double entendre acronym. All are welcome.

Just one mantra: "let's try to dial back on using our fossil-fuel burning vehicles when we don't really need them".

Discretionary duty: "to let other road users, who have perhaps never ridden an e-bike (and may not yet understand), try out ours for a couple minutes, whenever asked, and time permits"

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Always fun to watch someone's first eBike grin light up their face. Never fails. One woman, who rode my wife's bike with me said "I'm smiling so hard, my teeth are dry."

 

[RandallS]

I found our theme song, in video form.
Theme music

 

[goldconch]

Always fun to watch someone's first eBike grin light up their face. Never fails. One woman, who rode my wife's bike with me said "I'm smiling so hard, my teeth are dry."

I happily "indoctrinated" five fully-grown adult strangers with their first e-bike rides yesterday. A new one day high score for me. Felt a bit like Billy Mitchell.

 

[BrianK]

My sixteen year old niece has a cottage industry making custom t shirts. She finally got around to making me my e bike shirt.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

My sixteen year old niece has a cottage industry making custom t shirts. She finally got around to making me my e bike shirt.

If not the fact we're already experiencing cold Autumn, I would order a similar jersey. The back would read: "Arteriosclerosis, what's your excuse?"

 

[Handlebars]

I had a couple of hours to kill today after running errands (on the e-bike, natch), and was inspired by @BrianK 's idea of an e-bike gang.

Since someone else mentioned the S.O.B.s (don't know who started it), I figured to have some Friday Photoshop Fun (it used to be a thing).

Pick a side.

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Which one would Scotty go for?