> If that what it takes to get these sedentary brutes onto a bike, then let > them ride their electric bikes on roads and not on bike paths. .... > Admittedly, my n is pretty small, but I resent these lazy assholes being > on the bike paths. And it's bogus to say these are for sedentary folks. > By far, the most people who use them will be former bicyclists.
I personally could not see myself wanting one. (Years ago I tried one when someone from MGE was demo-ing one at some event and I wasn't impressed.) But I also don't get all the hostility about them. I don't see how discourteous/unsafe passing is any more or less obnoxious by someone on an electric-assist bike than it is by someone on a traditional bike who thinks he's doing Tour de France. A moron on an electric-assist bike is not inherently worse or more dangerous than a moron in Spandex<tm>. As for the opinion that most people using them will be former bicyclists, so what? If it helps keep on a bike someone who has diminished physical capability, what's wrong with that? _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
