Originally Posted by Ogsarg

One of the sponsors, Jimmy Panetta, is my rep and I will definitely write him. I don't have a problem with incentivizing activities that improve the environment, etc. but I believe the benefit of this will be very minimal. If someone buys an e- mountain bike, who otherwise would not be riding in the mountains, that does the environment zero good. How many of these subsidized bikes will actually replace the use of a car? This looks more like it's intended to subsidize the ebike industry. Note: Specialized HQ is also represented by Mr. Panetta if I'm not mistaken.

The other thing I'll mention to Jimmy is how bout spending some money on bike infrastructure. Very few roads have decent shoulders to ride on around here and the ones that do are almost never swept so flats are a regular occurrence.

Much better ways to spend the money IMHO.