It’s too fast and too dangerous for me, considering I’m not sitting in a cage designed for crashes. I also don’t like wearing a full face helmet all the time, and the thick clothes suck in summer. It would also have to make me drive on the road instead of bike lanes, and a lot of my ways are on gravel like ground and through woods, up and down the hills, taking shortcuts between places. I use it for long and very short distances like going to the shop a kilometre away.

An e-bike is still a bicycle when the battery runs out.

It has cheaper replacement parts, isn’t as heavy and doesn’t need registration or insurance.

I like riding my bike, in every weather besides thunderstorms, I just don’t like working against the wind and uphill, and an e-bike cancels both out.

I ride about 7000 km each year with it.