I'm so torn on my ebike. On one hand, all the good points are true; it's a blast, it opens the city up to you, and its a great way to get around. All that said

I'm so torn on my ebike. On one hand, all the good points are true; it's a blast, it opens the city up to you, and its a great way to get around. All that said, mine has been doing nothing but gathering dust in the basement. Aside from 'pleasure cruise' there is no valid use case for the damned thing, at least in my city. Locking it, especially securing every valuable component on it, is unfeasible and would add ~20 lbs to my pack weight just to lock it. All efforts at creating bike storage lockers have failed, as it became common knowledge that the fragile sheet metal is effectively a lootbox for the taking. My roadbike on the other hand, cost $100, can be maintained with a small pouch of tools, enjoys effectively infinite range, and is unassuming enough to remain undisturbed at a lock post. It's a shame, because I'm a big believer in electric micro-mobility vehicles, but the security and usage issues means that the Bird scooters blighting our sidewalks are about the most workable solution we have at the moment.