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What You Don’t Understand About E-Bikes Until You Ride One (slate.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same. I moved to a place "bikeably" close to the things I needed most (like post office for my work). Every day of the week I toss on some ANC headphones (transparency mode enabled) and head out for a 10 mile bike ride to drop off mail and explore the neighborhoods as I burn some calories and jam out to some tunes. I have a nice size tactical backpack which I use as my "trunk" to carry stuff around (as well as spare parts/tools to fix my bike on the go if needed)

An E-bike is high on my wish-list, but I'm letting the "market" mature and see where things end up so I can get something with an upgrade/repair path to replace the batteries as they age. But I would love to ditch the car for 90% of my weekly needs.

For now I keep my bike tuned up and enjoy the workout.

I don't know about you but I enjoy biking because I see the same regular people in the neighborhoods all the time, if nothing more than a friendly smile and a hello - you don't get that same interaction with people when you're driving everywhere.