Agree, lights are the only batteries I'm willing attach to my bike. And the lights are really just in the name of making more time: it's already needed here to bring at least one light to stretch the after-work rides to a solid couple hours.
Which brings me to why I don't get the appeal of e-bikes. They don't give me **more** **time to ride**. That's all that matters to me. I have limited hours to spend on riding, and I DGAF how many miles happen in those hours, as long as I'm doing bikes, and hopefully hanging out with friends who just want to spend the same time doing bikes. An e-bike might make more miles happen, but they don't make more time happen, and likely eat some time with charging, more frequent maintenance, etc. Net negative in my book.
I'm not even sure it's about the suffering, since so many people will tell you that e-bikes still make you work, they just give you more miles for the work (again with the miles...), which actually costs time since with more miles you're going to wear out more stuff and then have to spend more time working to be able to replace all the stuff you wear out, despite spending the same time riding... I truly don't get it.
Aug. 25, 2022, 7:05 a.m. - Justin White
Agree, lights are the only batteries I'm willing attach to my bike. And the lights are really just in the name of making more time: it's already needed here to bring at least one light to stretch the after-work rides to a solid couple hours. Which brings me to why I don't get the appeal of e-bikes. They don't give me **more** **time to ride**. That's all that matters to me. I have limited hours to spend on riding, and I DGAF how many miles happen in those hours, as long as I'm doing bikes, and hopefully hanging out with friends who just want to spend the same time doing bikes. An e-bike might make more miles happen, but they don't make more time happen, and likely eat some time with charging, more frequent maintenance, etc. Net negative in my book. I'm not even sure it's about the suffering, since so many people will tell you that e-bikes still make you work, they just give you more miles for the work (again with the miles...), which actually costs time since with more miles you're going to wear out more stuff and then have to spend more time working to be able to replace all the stuff you wear out, despite spending the same time riding... I truly don't get it.