Originally Posted by
jackb
What’s the big deal with an ebike?? If you want one, get one. If you don’t want one, don’t get one.
The
big deal is, that some of us E-Assist riders still consider ourselves riding bicycles, with
some assistance, Yes, from an Electric motor, instead of gearing, ( mechanical advantage) but we still put in lets say in my case, 70% of the motivating power to go from A to B, in other words we (Pedalled 70% of every KM for that particular ride), YES 30% of that trip was "motorised"
but 70% of it was NOT...

Then along come these "other riders " of E bikes not pedalling at all... or very little and every one of us riding an E-Bike is
now riding a motorised bicycle...
WRONG, some of us
are still pedalling... It really depends on what type of an E-Bike you have,

Not all E-Bikes, are E-Bikes, s
ome are E-Assist E-Bikes… That you HAVE to PEDAL to get anywhere...