As the proud and nerdy owner of an electric bike for three months now, I can make one statement about e-bikes and e-biking with complete confidence: E-bikers don't get no respect. Depending on demographic, the e-biker is viewed as a wimp (can't hack the pedaling), a poseur (regular bike not complicated/expensive enough), or an object of pity (can't drive, or can't afford a moped/car). If you've never been at the receiving end of the simultaneous sneers of the hippie knapsacker and the Hummer H3-driver, well, here's your chance.
Indeed, the goal of this diary will be to convince you that E-bikes deserve serious consideration as a mode of transportation well suited to the daily needs of many, if not most, of the citizens of this warming planet... even here in the car-centric USA.
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