Grant Petersen Has Lost It
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Actually, it's the other way around. You will burn at least twice as many calories on a non motorized bicycle. This means you will have to:
a. eat a lot more food and drink a lot more water. This means that a lot more trucks, ships and planes have to transport a lot more food and water since you are burning far more calories
b. burn more coal for your electricity since you will need to wash twice as many clothes or wash the same clothes twice as often.
In actuality then, ebikes save electricity by reducing food production and transport and save on pollution from washing and drying machines.
a. eat a lot more food and drink a lot more water. This means that a lot more trucks, ships and planes have to transport a lot more food and water since you are burning far more calories
b. burn more coal for your electricity since you will need to wash twice as many clothes or wash the same clothes twice as often.
In actuality then, ebikes save electricity by reducing food production and transport and save on pollution from washing and drying machines.
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Eh, it is easy to hate on things. I tend to ignore the closed minds in all of life, the things that people find to be personally threatened by never cease to astound me.
As with all these comments, there should be no General Discussion at all. Every single thread here could be elsewhere.
I do not understand why people show up to threads they have no interest in to tell others they have no interest and it should go elsewhere so they don't have to see it.
As one who has ridden (but does not own) ebikes, and who owns a motorcycle, no, no they are not motorcycles. Anyone who honestly thinks ebikes are closer to motorcycles than bikes is pushing an agenda
The day I can take an ebike down a limited access interstate (and no, not one of those special bits out west where most traffic is allowed), maybe my stance will change.
I do not understand why people show up to threads they have no interest in to tell others they have no interest and it should go elsewhere so they don't have to see it.
The day I can take an ebike down a limited access interstate (and no, not one of those special bits out west where most traffic is allowed), maybe my stance will change.
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Why so binary? The lower-power ebikes require that you pedal to activate the e-assist. So there is an entire category of ebikes that *combine* human & battery power.
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Ironic how a topic about an uneducated critic getting it all wrong, gets flooded with uneducated critics getting it all wrong.
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I don't know who this Grant Peterson guy is. I just now read a few paragraphs about him at wiki. That said, it's very simple to understand in my mind who and what he is. He's a purist. And that's that. And there is nothing wrong with that.
I was once a purist. Fly fishing. But man, when the artificial plastic lures hit the market, I changed. I love a plastic lure. That said, I like to pedal a bicycle. And I don't think that I will ever change. No interest in e-bikes. None at all. No Di2 for me. Nope. Geez, if I keep going here, I might be just like Grant Peterson.?? Doesn't matter if I am or not.
I think the OP is fishing for support on his opinion. I'm independent. I'm not biting...
I was once a purist. Fly fishing. But man, when the artificial plastic lures hit the market, I changed. I love a plastic lure. That said, I like to pedal a bicycle. And I don't think that I will ever change. No interest in e-bikes. None at all. No Di2 for me. Nope. Geez, if I keep going here, I might be just like Grant Peterson.?? Doesn't matter if I am or not.
I think the OP is fishing for support on his opinion. I'm independent. I'm not biting...
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After reading the link...
- the OP is way off base with how he interpreted the article's points and ramblings.
- that was a terribly written post by GP. Just bad. Good lord- work on having a start, middle, and end thst all connect properly before you post to your site for cycling nerds to read. Im not looking for Hemingway, but my 8yo daughter has more connected thoughts than what was in GP's posting.
- the OP is way off base with how he interpreted the article's points and ramblings.
- that was a terribly written post by GP. Just bad. Good lord- work on having a start, middle, and end thst all connect properly before you post to your site for cycling nerds to read. Im not looking for Hemingway, but my 8yo daughter has more connected thoughts than what was in GP's posting.
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Actually, it's the other way around. You will burn at least twice as many calories on a non motorized bicycle. This means you will have to:
a. eat a lot more food and drink a lot more water. This means that a lot more trucks, ships and planes have to transport a lot more food and water since you are burning far more calories
b. burn more coal for your electricity since you will need to wash twice as many clothes or wash the same clothes twice as often.
In actuality then, ebikes save electricity by reducing food production and transport and save on pollution from washing and drying machines.
a. eat a lot more food and drink a lot more water. This means that a lot more trucks, ships and planes have to transport a lot more food and water since you are burning far more calories
b. burn more coal for your electricity since you will need to wash twice as many clothes or wash the same clothes twice as often.
In actuality then, ebikes save electricity by reducing food production and transport and save on pollution from washing and drying machines.
The clothing thing is an argument you could make against any vigorous work out. Seems to me that's a better argument for walking around in sweaty clothes. Also, I wash clothes regularly, my riding clothes just make the load a bit bigger. I doubt there's that much marginal difference in the energy and pollution.
Now let's start talking about the environmental costs of more battery use.
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In the UK they are classified as mopeds above a certain power - I think it's 250W - and you are supposed to wear a motorbike helmet if you ride one. E-bikes have to be below that power and only go when pedaled. Of course, this isn't enforced. I regularly get passed on my commute by someone who does no pedaling at all and wears no helmet.
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Figured it was about time for yet another in an (apparent) series of troll threads as his others fade into obscurity.
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I have no interest in one, but I certainly don't advocate they be treated as a street-only vehicle until they are operated by a throttle and are capable of speeds higher than a healthy fit cyclist can accomplish unassisted. There is little practical difference to anyone but the rider in the bikes we know of as ebikes and a fit solo cyclist to others around them.
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It's a slippery slope with pedal assist e-bikes. They DO have a motor, that's pretty simple. As well there are many aspects to the use of motorized vehicles that go beyond Grant's comments and the thing that worries me the most is the potential that acceptance of a pedal assisted motorized cycle/moped, will start to see their current use on off-pavement trails and rail trails and into area's currently the province of mt. bikes. This is a HUGE problem given that countless mt. bike advocacy groups have worked very hard over the past 30 years to get mt. biking accepted into areas they might have been banned (and still are - Nat'l Park trials as example). Mt. bikers have tried very hard to dissociate themselves from "dirt bikes", ot motorized off road specific motorcycles. Accepting ANY motorized cycle is and as far as the mt. bike hating groups are concerned, the camels nose under the tent, that will eventually see the use of a motorized cycle (yes it has pedals) on trails where they really don't belong. That's going to potentially see trails currently accessible to non-motorized wheeled vehicles, to be be banned altogether for ANY wheeled vehicles.
Mopeds, and that's what they are, belong on roads, not MUT's or any area that specifically ban a motorized wheeled vehicle.
Mopeds, and that's what they are, belong on roads, not MUT's or any area that specifically ban a motorized wheeled vehicle.
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I love my vintage steel bikes, and my carbon bikes. I even love my disc brakes and Di2. I've never been tempted to try an E-bike. I'm 69 years old, and take pride in BEING the motor. I know this thread is not really an E-bike or not thread, but in analyzing the OP's posted article, I'm on board with the E-bike as not a being real bike argument. I'm good with modern advances, as long as YOU are the motor. I've always found Rivendell a little quirky (OK, a lot quirky), but totally refreshing attitude. Several years ago, having completed a Solvang Century, I was watching other riders finish, to applause from the crowd. A guy came in on an Iacocca e-bike (remember them?) and he got booed. I almost felt sorry for him, but not that much.
Now, get off my lawn with your E-bike! 😉
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GP is way behind the times, and has actually missed the boat , so to speak.
He is in California, and California has already classified ebikes as bicycles.
Specifically, bicycles with a 20 mph limit are class 1 and 2 ebikes and can go anywhere push bikes can go.
Read it and weep.
https://peopleforbikes.org/wp-conten...02132018v2.pdf
He is in California, and California has already classified ebikes as bicycles.
Specifically, bicycles with a 20 mph limit are class 1 and 2 ebikes and can go anywhere push bikes can go.
Read it and weep.
https://peopleforbikes.org/wp-conten...02132018v2.pdf
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Actually, it's the other way around. You will burn at least twice as many calories on a non motorized bicycle. This means you will have to:
a. eat a lot more food and drink a lot more water. This means that a lot more trucks, ships and planes have to transport a lot more food and water since you are burning far more calories
b. burn more coal for your electricity since you will need to wash twice as many clothes or wash the same clothes twice as often.
In actuality then, ebikes save electricity by reducing food production and transport and save on pollution from washing and drying machines.
a. eat a lot more food and drink a lot more water. This means that a lot more trucks, ships and planes have to transport a lot more food and water since you are burning far more calories
b. burn more coal for your electricity since you will need to wash twice as many clothes or wash the same clothes twice as often.
In actuality then, ebikes save electricity by reducing food production and transport and save on pollution from washing and drying machines.
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That is one argument I agree with on the ebikes, that they should be off limits when it comes to MTB trails. Firstly, from a fragility aspect (the ones by me are closed enough for poor trail conditions that they don't want ripped up, no need to add torquey motors to the mix), and secondly, if you aren't fit enough to ride the trails in the first place, I'd have a hard time believing most people have the dexterity and reflexes to safely navigate them. But, it is a line I feel can easily be policed, just like throttle bikes that gets up into moped speeds.
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I might be persuaded to give them a pass so long as you still need to do the majority of the pedaling work. Problems is, that won't last long. People have already begun to hack them and is some cases attain speed up to 40 mph! No pedaling necessary.
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Eh, it is easy to hate on things. I tend to ignore the closed minds in all of life, the things that people find to be personally threatened by never cease to astound me.
I do not understand why people show up to threads they have no interest in to tell others they have no interest and it should go elsewhere so they don't have to see it.
I do not understand why people show up to threads they have no interest in to tell others they have no interest and it should go elsewhere so they don't have to see it.
People come here to fight over trivia. people come here to pick fights when there is nothing already here to fight over.
People come here to stir the cesspool. Honesty and tolerance are only impediments.
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