Originally Posted by
Garfield Cat
Stay with both bikes and ride them accordingly.
Your group is definitely the senior riders++. As they're close in age, then also capabilities.
Slower reaction times, slower average speed, less off the saddle climbing, etc. Take all that and put that rider in a fast electric bike with a throttle that ignores age?
Its like the elderly car driver who collides into a fast food restaurant.
That's a lot of assumptions, when all OP told you were ages.
I am
almost old enough to fit in with his group myself. I personally wouldn't care about an e-bike.