Ebike Acceptance

[Zimmerframe]

Meh - bugger the acceptance. People have had over 100 years to get used to the idea ....
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Blimey, 125 years ago and even then they knew e-bikers were going to be fat and lazy ! - Look at that double rimmed/twin tyred back wheel !!!

Must have been psychic like the hodge !

 

[Kingerz]

Haters can get lost, honestly. I don't feel I need to justify anything as common and popular. Talking about it helping older or unfit people is still in excuse territory. Young people almost ALL lust after eMTBs.

 

[maynard]

Yes I have had many young guys admire my ebike . The kids at the skate park think its cool. Only nerdy insecure mtn bikers feel the need to categorise them to 50 + people or some dude with a screwed back . They will only accept it when they own one .

 

[Felpro]

I'm 61. i spent the last year on the couch really struggling with motivation after some life changing things happened. My EMTB has got me fired up to get out and get moving. If I had no assistance to get up and down the hills before, during and after the main area I want to go, I would not go. I find it fun if I run out of battery with 1/2 an hour to get home, to notice the difference in the effort required.

It is more fun the get my exercise at 30 - 40 kph than 5 - 10.

I have practised my responses to negativity towards assisted riding but this has only happened between my ears and never with another rider. If it did, I think the best response would be (as mentioned earlier) to ask about the validity of a 24 speed over a ten speed over a single speed rider. But this issue has never come up. No to me in person.

Perhaps because they can't catch me . . .

 

[Hamina]

It is more fun the get my exercise at 30 - 40 kph than 5 - 10.

I think you just defined something very fundamental on why ride emtb.