I'm well aware of that. But the point I was getting at is the whole "laziness" argument which is quite stupid. If I were really lazy, I'd be using a car or anything else that I just don't have to use physical force at all. It's really that simple. My "crutch" is actually an "unfair advantage" and I think that's really what's getting to Pete. An eBike probably blasted past him and he couldn't take it.

I must be something like that considering all his hostility towards eBikes. Honestly, why should he care? he should just keep on riding his bike and enjoying it as much as he can and leave it at that.

It's not like I drove my eBike behind him, laid on the horn, waved obsenities at him, passed him on the left and yelled some really foul language at him.

So why he has hostility towards eBikes beats the hell out me. I have to place Pete into the "Ignorant Elitest" that we eBikers run into all the time. The same type of people who simply don't realize that for every eBiker on the road means that it's one less car driver on the road.

It's the same type of mentality I experienced a few decades ago when people were really scared that computers would put them out of a job. They simply repeated the same rhetoric over and over again without making any sense and simply proving that they really can't stop and think for themselves. In the end, their arguments got silenced when they finally figured out: "You know what? These computers are actually pretty useful."

The same will happen with eBikes, they'll get more and more popular as gas prices go up. It's unavoidable. And the inability to see the opportunity to take advantage of the trend is what sets apart the followers from the leaders.