Originally Posted by
MikeDeason
No Ebike thanks. I commute and recreational light trail weekends for fitness. I sit in my azz all day at work.
this bike is going to motivate me to do more pumping, not less
Will add that if one's commute is filled with rainbows and kittens and lacks death-dispensing distracted drivers, suffering from oxygen starvation way up in their jacked-up pickups, then a leisurely commute is a perfect tonic for beginning and ending a day deskbound. No question.
However, in the second scenario the bike commuter's top priority is minimizing the time spent in traffic, for which an ebike slices precious minutes of exposure 2X/day. Win-win. (With a boost type bike one can have the same workout, that much I've figured out.)