It is incredibly difficult to sell electric bikes in a normal bike shop, for every one sold there are hundreds or maybe even thousands of regular bikes sold. Th

It is incredibly difficult to sell electric bikes in a normal bike shop, for every one sold there are hundreds or maybe even thousands of regular bikes sold. This is a pity as electric bikes can be very good. Some electric bikes are a lot heavier than they need to be, you have a rear rack that contains brackets to house boxes that have more brackets on them and deep inside those boxes are some batteries held at the worst place for centre of gravity. All of this needs to be done as a system with the battery made a structural part of the frame. Then the bike as a whole can go back to being performance oriented instead of senior style. In my opinion the extra torque more than makes up for the weight when it comes to handling. Electric bikes don't feel heavy when you are riding one, it is just getting the thing up the stairs to your flat at the end of the day that is a pain. I hope some player from outside the bicycle industry - a Tesla - re-engineers the electric bicycle to make it a whole new product. As it is the electric bicycle just does not catch the public imagination.