Yeah, nice click bait and article to really stir the hornets nest Cam :-\
Well, I'm in the camp of bike and electric motor bikes, how about that, simple and factual! If you want to elaborate on which type of each bike you might ride, then it would go a little something like this, "I'm going to be riding my dual suspension bike tomorrow", "I'm going to be riding my dual suspension electric motor bike tomorrow", not hard in the least, very easy to understand, one has a motor, the other does not. Or if you find it hard or too long to say the actual name out in full, we'll accept e-bike, there, simple and done.
This standard has already been established when motors were first strapped to bicycles, they didn't then start calling bikes acoustic, Amish or any such, they just called bikes with motors, motorbikes, motor bikes without a definition of what sort of motor because combustion was all that there. Now you have the option, electric or combustion, but either way, it's still a motor and hence easy enough to name the vehicle it resides in/on.
_Side note on the 650B thing...it wasn't pushed as 27.5 because 650B was road centric, it was to try and confuse people into thinking that it fell squarely between 26" and 29", when in reality it's much closer to 26", like 3/4" of an inch bigger and then 2.5" smaller than a 29er of the same width. It was Giant who did this because their run by accountants engineers missed the 29er boat and wanted to make sure they didn't miss the next big trend, but wanted to try and make it sound even better than it was._
Jan. 28, 2025, 5:20 a.m. - Lynx .
Yeah, nice click bait and article to really stir the hornets nest Cam :-\ Well, I'm in the camp of bike and electric motor bikes, how about that, simple and factual! If you want to elaborate on which type of each bike you might ride, then it would go a little something like this, "I'm going to be riding my dual suspension bike tomorrow", "I'm going to be riding my dual suspension electric motor bike tomorrow", not hard in the least, very easy to understand, one has a motor, the other does not. Or if you find it hard or too long to say the actual name out in full, we'll accept e-bike, there, simple and done. This standard has already been established when motors were first strapped to bicycles, they didn't then start calling bikes acoustic, Amish or any such, they just called bikes with motors, motorbikes, motor bikes without a definition of what sort of motor because combustion was all that there. Now you have the option, electric or combustion, but either way, it's still a motor and hence easy enough to name the vehicle it resides in/on. _Side note on the 650B thing...it wasn't pushed as 27.5 because 650B was road centric, it was to try and confuse people into thinking that it fell squarely between 26" and 29", when in reality it's much closer to 26", like 3/4" of an inch bigger and then 2.5" smaller than a 29er of the same width. It was Giant who did this because their run by accountants engineers missed the 29er boat and wanted to make sure they didn't miss the next big trend, but wanted to try and make it sound even better than it was._