Originally Posted by
Maelochs
Surely if a severely handicapped rider showed up for a club ride with E-Assist, no one would complain? So ... why the prejudice against the able-bodied? if some dude (or chick) gets pleasure from an E or E-Assist ... anything that doesn't have an internal combustion motor ... why not?
Only the super Type-A "I need to beat Everybody across the finish line" types .... are so full of themselves they don't even realize there is no finish line on a club ride. And those dudes are their own reward/punishment.
Smoking a cigar would be expensive ... airflow at 25 mph would burn the thing down in no time ... and you'd have to light the next off the stub, because the wind would extinguish a lighter.
Scotch, now, that I'd object to. Balance issues associated with intoxication.
I think the solution is to ride stoker on an E-tandem, and treat it as a chauffeured ride ... just sit back behind your windscreen, puff and sip and smile ....
,,,,, Let me ask you this ,,,, you're an ablebodied man ,, so the weekly ride this week is a century envolving some hills the group is about fifty riders , it's a supported ride with sag wagon and all every body takes off a few hours later everybody finishs everybody is talking about their ride where they had the most trouble and such,,, ofcoures you had arrived with your E assited road bike and finished nice and fresh,,, now did you really do a century ********** where are you going to compare your ride with the rest of the group are you gonna talk about how your calfs feel and hurt on that long streach ??? are you gonna go back to work and brag about the long 100 mile bicyle ride you did over the week end,,,,please answer, I may be missing the BIG picture,,,,,