Trail, trail, trail, trail, trail, trail. I guess I hadn’t noticed until this thread exactly how trail riding centric so many of the list regulars are. Not meant as a put down just needing a shift in my frame of reference. I am perhaps more in line with Mr. eBike man ( the OP ) in that my riding and thus frame of reference is riding on city streets and e-bikes in that environment, chugging up long asphalt hills on a dense urban commute seem perfectly sensible. I’d never buy one simply because I’d hate to have to pedal all that extra weight around when I’m not going up those hills but I’m only 60. Give me ten years and I might see it differently. the argument that some people will be irresponsible if given powerful tools is fallacious from the start however. The list of things that can be misused in the wrong hands stretch back to fire and the wheel. No need to ban electric bikes because the occasional jerk rides too fast on a multi user trail. Just be glad you get to commute on an MUT instead of elbow to fender with a lane of black Lincoln Navigators with tinted windows and the odd metro bus.
