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If I were inclined to use the modern 'gotchas' rhetorically, I would call this comment ableist. Instead I'll just point out that being young(ish), (reasonably)
by samatman 5y ago
If I were inclined to use the modern 'gotchas' rhetorically, I would call this comment ableist.
Instead I'll just point out that being young(ish), (reasonably) healthy, and having only slightly uphill to worry about, are all luxuries.
Electric bikes make bicycling accessible to many more people, and their embodied and operating energies are quite modest.
Best of all, they don't take away your ability to ride a pushbike! Or brag about it on the Internet.
- 11235813213455 5y agoI understand, but honestly I'm 36, commuted for many years (South-East of France, not really flat except sea-side), I've currently a re-broken clavicle since 10 days, and yet I still use my (modest) bike (sort of partially-temporarily disabled, that's annoying for the rest of life though). My energy is modest at least I'm maybe shaped for hills, it's just that as I explained, I ride slowly. You can spend as much energy as someone on his electric bike, it's just that you need to go slower, and not be stressed by time. I just wanted to say there are some mental barriers and false opinions on the difficulty of bike, or societal (like the fact to sweat ..) which can be overriden