My ride satisfaction is 100% contingent on seeing if I can do it, the satisfaction of the climb. And most of my internal goal-setting over the year is wondering if I can do it? Can I do those two climbs back to back? Or link these two sections without stopping? Or when I realize I'm going to accomplish some lofty climbing goal when I only set out for a chill ride but then I'm feeling good and nail some feature or combination I couldn't previously do.
When all that is taken away my rides never feel as good. Shuttling, the bike park, e-bikes all feel a bit lacklustre. But not even. The first two don't promise to climb, they promise dessert without dinner and that's a different kind of dissatisfaction. _Pretending_ to climb makes me really sad. Now I've gone through the motions, telling myself it's somehow the same thing and maybe even better because _look how fast I'm going_. But I get to the top without breaking a sweat or digging deep in any way. I've managed to fully avoid doing, feeling or maybe even participating at all in the experience. There was no quiet suffering where all the reflection happens because the thing is noisy. And there's no proper hard charging downhill where the other side of the experience lives because the thing is so heavy. But I get to the top and then again to the bottom without really feeling anything.
I feel like I spend a lot of my day disconnected from things because of technology, screens and batteries and on an ebike I'm disconnected from riding too.
But maybe if they're light enough, quiet enough I might come around to the big perceived advantage for me: massive self-shuttles from East Van. I have ridden from East Van and up multiple mountains but it takes all day. In theory an ebike could rip across the bridge, do multiple huge climbs and descents then home again all without a car. But so far they don't have the burn time for that in a package that's light enough to be nice to ride. The Transition Relay looks promising. Thing is, once they get light enough, quiet enough, _low power enough_, maybe just suck it up and get that epic multiple mountain ride done more often and get fit enough to do it quicker.
Aug. 25, 2022, 6:45 a.m. - Cr4w
My ride satisfaction is 100% contingent on seeing if I can do it, the satisfaction of the climb. And most of my internal goal-setting over the year is wondering if I can do it? Can I do those two climbs back to back? Or link these two sections without stopping? Or when I realize I'm going to accomplish some lofty climbing goal when I only set out for a chill ride but then I'm feeling good and nail some feature or combination I couldn't previously do. When all that is taken away my rides never feel as good. Shuttling, the bike park, e-bikes all feel a bit lacklustre. But not even. The first two don't promise to climb, they promise dessert without dinner and that's a different kind of dissatisfaction. _Pretending_ to climb makes me really sad. Now I've gone through the motions, telling myself it's somehow the same thing and maybe even better because _look how fast I'm going_. But I get to the top without breaking a sweat or digging deep in any way. I've managed to fully avoid doing, feeling or maybe even participating at all in the experience. There was no quiet suffering where all the reflection happens because the thing is noisy. And there's no proper hard charging downhill where the other side of the experience lives because the thing is so heavy. But I get to the top and then again to the bottom without really feeling anything. I feel like I spend a lot of my day disconnected from things because of technology, screens and batteries and on an ebike I'm disconnected from riding too. But maybe if they're light enough, quiet enough I might come around to the big perceived advantage for me: massive self-shuttles from East Van. I have ridden from East Van and up multiple mountains but it takes all day. In theory an ebike could rip across the bridge, do multiple huge climbs and descents then home again all without a car. But so far they don't have the burn time for that in a package that's light enough to be nice to ride. The Transition Relay looks promising. Thing is, once they get light enough, quiet enough, _low power enough_, maybe just suck it up and get that epic multiple mountain ride done more often and get fit enough to do it quicker.