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Should've bought a bicycle lol, there's no better way to get around town if you ask me.
That depends on where you live lots of places are very unfriendly to bike riders
It's wild that they attack cyclist. I am mostly a pedestrian first as I live in a walkable city, but I was walking my bike to the shop for repairs and there was a dramatic shift in how drivers reacted to me just walking a bike. It's insane how much needless contempt they have for someone on a bike.
It's not super common (at least in my experience) but it still happens way more often than it should.
Hating anything that helps the planet is now the religion of the right. We're talking about people who deliberately mod their trucks to create more harmful emissions.
E-bike. It's more energy efficient than straight biking.
I like my ebike, but I like my bicycle even more. I can't quite place my finger on why, but it's probably because my bicycle is a pretty decent hardtail and my ebike is a cheap drop-shipped folding fatbike that I use more for heavier hauls or recovery days. I'd probably change my opinion if I had something like a Specialized Turbo lol.
I pull my inflatable kayak with a bike trailer and thought about an ebike but then, I also do touring and the places I go to are beyond battery life. For example this weekend I'm cycling 90 km to my camp site and there's no electricity. And I need to get back.
And the second issue with this is that AFAIK there's no fast charging on most ebikes. So if I need to stop somewhere to charge it when the battery will be dead after 75 km, it will take an eternity to charge.
So in the end, for my case, as someone cycling a few thousand kilometres a year, for "longer distances", it's wouldn't be very practical.
You can still pedal without the battery, you just don't get the assist. What do you mean by fast charging? My battery goes from empty to full in 4 hours, and I have a 50 mile range. (80.5 km)
But with a dead battery you have to haul it plis your stuff, which was supposed to be there to make it easier in the first place.
And by fast charge, I mean like an electric car, that can fully cjarge in about 15 to 20 minutes instead of hours.
Wouldn't you still get some benefit once you're going due to regenerative breaking? Though I'm just guessing as to how they are set up, no idea if they even do regenerative breaking.
[laughs in vegetarian]