Re:The E-bike Is a Monstrosity
by hombre_fatal on Saturday September 03, 2022 @02:31PM
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You weren’t exaggerating. Jeez. It starts with someone who can’t decide when they should be exercising or not and goes downhill.
Sadly I also know the type of people these points resonate with. I’m reminded of the sort of person who posts on r/books asking if audiobooks really count as reading, as they can’t decide what values should matter to them nor when.
> e-bikes are trapped in the weird smear between pathetic, loser bicycles and pitiable, low-end motorbikes
His contempt of bikes in general on full display...
E-bikes are fantastic for a ton of different uses. It’s not supposed to be a motorcycle and it’s explicitly not supposed to be exercise equipment.
I feel like the author just hates themselves and is trying to sound snide about e-bikes tbh.
I agree it doesn’t have the same aesthetic flair of a badass motorcycle or a Vespa, but that’s a lot of whining about it for someone who apparently doesn’t own either of those things and is mad that the e-bike they bought didn’t make them as cool as they had hoped.