Originally Posted by
boomhauer
The only thing that fanned the flames is when you started equating a motor to a mechanical "assist" (gears). These guys don't care if anyone rides an e-bike or not.
Really? They sure seemed to care as far as I could tell. Anyways, I just retorted that assist is assist, mechanical advantage is an assist too... I likened it to a fixie, how many people tour with a fixie? Not many I suspect. Why? Because they can't make it up most hills without the assistance of the gearing... Thus, maybe
anyone who can't tour on a fixie should get off their fat butts and train more, is what I basically said...
Because that is what they said I should do, if I couldn't tour without the E-Assist....
That is the way I remember it...
