The OP was doing okay until s/he said these things:
Originally Posted by
adlai
The carbon road bike has a complicated derailleur gear system that needs to be cleaned every hundred miles or so, sometimes less, it also goes out of sync with regularity requiring some form of adjustment, and that adjustment isn't really working well for me because it skips gears.
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Originally Posted by
adlai
Because the parts of the carbon road bike are optimized for weight they are also kind of fragile and need to be replaced often because of their fragile nature.
This is all crap. Hating on pedal bikes is no better than hating on e-bikes.
Trying to explain why trucks are better than trains just sounds silly. Comparing ebikes to pedal bikes is the same sort of silliness. They are different things with different designs, and operating methods.
Neither is good or bad ... but the same cannot be said for posters.