Originally Posted by
rydabent
For quite some time there has been hate and discontent directed at recumbents and trikes. The reason why still escapes me. Now all of a sudden the E-bike seems to be the target. IMO all too many seem to think that everyone must ride a race approved DF bike. A small leeway is given to mountain bikes.
OTOH I am one of a small number here that everyone should respect anything and everything that resembles any form of a bike trike or quad, e-assisted or not. If the owner is happy that is all that matters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There you go...claiming that motorized vehicles are equivalent to human powered vehicles. That is the sales pitch that works on customers that have a dusty bike in the garage which they won't ride because of a ________, or a ___________, or whatever. The salesman tells them an electric bike IS a bike and riding it is good excercise. But with the battery power, they will actually ride it because it is EASIER. If motorized bicycles were restricted to motorways, there would be no hate. Bicycles would be hated too if we rode on busy sidewalks.