I recently (last quarter) started cycling to work in San Francisco, netting 80-100 miles a week, and your statements ring true. Looking at my Strava relative e

I recently (last quarter) started cycling to work in San Francisco, netting 80-100 miles a week, and your statements ring true. Looking at my Strava relative effort and resting heart rate, the amount of aggregate exercise I get is far superior to my previous exercise habits. While it may take me a net +30 minutes when using non-ebikes to get around in a day, I get something like 90 minutes of total exercise, something I could never justify if I separated my commute from exercise. E-bikes are extremely quick, depending on the task, they are often less in trip time vs. cars, public transit, or a taxi. But for exercise reasons I tend to ride classic. I use a cargo ebike for getting my kid to school, but days when I do not need to do that, I use the city shared bikes, often the unpowered ones. I like them both. The latter I use even the same day when I have my cargo bike: it's wonderful to cycle to lunch on a less unwieldy cycle, walk to a coffee shop, and then pick up a bicycle from a different dock to return to the office. All that I choose to carry is a helmet to do that. It's also a lot more fun than the train/bus (which I also kind of enjoy, my route is somewhat scenic), or driving [and parking].