MattiThundrrr
Kona Fan
Real Doggs ride lo-los
Sorry I was slow in the singletrack - my bike just caught fire…
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Totoro
Senior Retro Guru
Went hiking today, saw 10 MTB's but it was quite cold and windy, of those 7 were electric. What is surprising me is how many young people are using them. Maybe I would have if they were out when I was young but I like to think I wouldn't, after all I could use one again now but choose not to.
Where I live even the kids ride E-bikes to school.
It is an epidemic. E-bikes don't replace cars, they replace normal bicycles, just like e-scooters replace normal pedestrians.
Once again, we have managed to consume more electricity and other resources in a completely senseless way.
If you go on an MTB bike tour in the Alps today, you feel like you're back in the early 90s. You get the same looks as back then when a new trend was born. And again, it's cycling in the mountains. Only this time you're an excentric outsider if you don't have a motor...just sick!
And some even still call it a Sport.
It is an epidemic. E-bikes don't replace cars, they replace normal bicycles, just like e-scooters replace normal pedestrians.
Once again, we have managed to consume more electricity and other resources in a completely senseless way.
If you go on an MTB bike tour in the Alps today, you feel like you're back in the early 90s. You get the same looks as back then when a new trend was born. And again, it's cycling in the mountains. Only this time you're an excentric outsider if you don't have a motor...just sick!
And some even still call it a Sport.
Just put a car battery on a rack...job done....
Or sellotape some d cells together.
Do they give the tartingslaps a seatie to the next trick?
This is my experience in Denmark too. The bicycle is a lowly bygone relic compared to bicycle 2.0 which is just a slimmed down moped.
The scooters are even worse to some extent, now legs are a bygone relic too!
MattiThundrrr
Kona Fan
Scott-S
Kona Fan
Because the spoiled little crotch gremlins see, want and get as that is the way they have been brought up
Betsy
Old School Grand Master
Lots of assumptions and generalisations being made here.. 
My kid rides a modernish Norco hardtail but he commutes too and from school on a Pure e-scooter.. let me explain why
For the first 3yrs of secondary school, he walked to school, ladened down with books.. we live in the bottom of the Porter Valley, his school is up between Bents Green and Whirlow.. the only road up there is Highcliffe Road, the bottom section has no footpath, Highcliffe Road is steep af.. steeper than 95% of roads in the Peak District.. there are houses on the left, allotments on the right.. (pull it up on google maps, you'll see what i mean) cars park on the left..
Riding up the hill would be a struggle for most but just about doable if there was no cars but you have to stop behind the parked cars to give way to the traffic coming quickly down the hill.. setting off again, up the hill with zero momentum into oncoming traffic in the dark is dangerous af.. i never see anyone riding it.
To avoid Highcliffe Rd, my kid used to take a detour on foot, through the woods and through the allotments alone in the dark.. he would arrive at school 40mins later, with his school shoes (and often socks) covered in mud..
We got him an e-scooter (i know the legality is a gray area but it's a lot less worrying than knowing your 12yr old is alone in the woods in the dark) ..now he rides up Highcliffe Rd because the acceleration from 0-17mph is instant, he can get past a line of parked cars in seconds, it has a front and rear light, indicators and 4x reflectors, one on either side of each wheel.. he rides up to his friends house at Bents Green, puts his e-scooter in his friends garage, takes off his waterproofs, hooks'up with the lads and they all walk to school together, he arrives dry with his school shoes free from mud.. it has little effect on his fitness levels, he hikes in the Peaks, skateboards, plays football, tennis and lacrosse.. he's fit af!
My kid rides a modernish Norco hardtail but he commutes too and from school on a Pure e-scooter.. let me explain why
For the first 3yrs of secondary school, he walked to school, ladened down with books.. we live in the bottom of the Porter Valley, his school is up between Bents Green and Whirlow.. the only road up there is Highcliffe Road, the bottom section has no footpath, Highcliffe Road is steep af.. steeper than 95% of roads in the Peak District.. there are houses on the left, allotments on the right.. (pull it up on google maps, you'll see what i mean) cars park on the left..
Riding up the hill would be a struggle for most but just about doable if there was no cars but you have to stop behind the parked cars to give way to the traffic coming quickly down the hill.. setting off again, up the hill with zero momentum into oncoming traffic in the dark is dangerous af.. i never see anyone riding it.
To avoid Highcliffe Rd, my kid used to take a detour on foot, through the woods and through the allotments alone in the dark.. he would arrive at school 40mins later, with his school shoes (and often socks) covered in mud..
We got him an e-scooter (i know the legality is a gray area but it's a lot less worrying than knowing your 12yr old is alone in the woods in the dark) ..now he rides up Highcliffe Rd because the acceleration from 0-17mph is instant, he can get past a line of parked cars in seconds, it has a front and rear light, indicators and 4x reflectors, one on either side of each wheel.. he rides up to his friends house at Bents Green, puts his e-scooter in his friends garage, takes off his waterproofs, hooks'up with the lads and they all walk to school together, he arrives dry with his school shoes free from mud.. it has little effect on his fitness levels, he hikes in the Peaks, skateboards, plays football, tennis and lacrosse.. he's fit af!
