Originally Posted by
radroad
As long as you'd made your own clothes, grew the cotton, sheared the wool from the sheep you raised, fed them, raised them, tilled the soil for the crops that fed them, owned the oil wells and drilled for the petrol for your polyester BY HAND. What about your shoes? And you didn't mention componentry or tires or saddles.
Did you pave roads yourself btw? Why do you need roads anyway?
As you acknowledge, this is just e-bike hate rooted in a fear of novelty.
All that and you'd have to tap rubber trees for the tires and tubes and then vulcanize the rubber; and if you want a leather saddle , you'd have to skin the steer or cow, tan the leather and then shape the saddle.