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Reader comments go on quite a distance

https://bikerumor.com/ebike-opinion-just-because-i-ride-an-e-bike-doesnt-mean-i-am-lazy/
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 17:12:07 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

Reader comments go on quite a distance

https://bikerumor.com/ebike-opinion-just-because-i-ride-an-e-bike-doesnt-mean-i-am-lazy/

Motorbikes are not bicycles.

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On 2/5/2026 6:33 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 17:12:07 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

Reader comments go on quite a distance

https://bikerumor.com/ebike-opinion-just-because-i-ride-an-e-bike-doesnt-mean-i-am-lazy/

Motorbikes are not bicycles.

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Soloman

Agreed.

Motorcycles are fine things - if ever i were to own one, I'd
be torn between a 1947 Knucklehead and a 1948 Panhead - but
they are not at all bicycles.
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Am Thu, 5 Feb 2026 17:12:07 -0600 schrieb AMuzi
<am@yellowjersey.org>:

Reader comments go on quite a distance

https://bikerumor.com/ebike-opinion-just-because-i-ride-an-e-bike-doesnt-mean-i-am-lazy/

This is a promotional article that essentially disparages a straw
man.
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On 2/5/2026 6:12 PM, AMuzi wrote:

Reader comments go on quite a distance

https://bikerumor.com/ebike-opinion-just-because-i-ride-an-e-bike- doesnt-mean-i-am-lazy/

Reading comments can easily destroy one's faith in humanity.
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On 2/6/2026 5:09 AM, zen cycle wrote:

On 2/5/2026 6:12 PM, AMuzi wrote:

Reader comments go on quite a distance

https://bikerumor.com/ebike-opinion-just-because-i-ride-
an-e-bike- doesnt-mean-i-am-lazy/

Reading comments can easily destroy one's faith in humanity.

Yes, I think so too, for online anonymous comments.

For newspapers, I have noticed that the best stories are in
Obituaries and the best writing is in Letters.
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From Newsgroup: rec.bicycles.tech

Am Fri, 6 Feb 2026 06:09:38 -0500 schrieb zen cycle
<funkmasterxx@hotmail.com>:

On 2/5/2026 6:12 PM, AMuzi wrote:

Reader comments go on quite a distance

https://bikerumor.com/ebike-opinion-just-because-i-ride-an-e-bike-
doesnt-mean-i-am-lazy/

Reading comments can easily destroy one's faith in humanity.

I have not read those comments yet and do not intend to do so.

Personally, I have three different reasons for my rejection of
E-bikes, as these are sold and used here in Germany and those
European countries that I visited by bike

- E-bikes with a speed limit of 25 km/h have been officially
equated with bicycles by law

- People (mis-)using a nearby recreational area with is also a
nature conservation area by MTB now have switched to E-MTB,
tripling their destruction power

- E-bikes are advertised and sold to the general public as
bicycles, using the misleading argument that riding an e-bike has
all the benefits attributed to bicycles: riding them keeps you
fit and healthy.


I just don't care about internal disputes about how off-road
sports involving motorised two-wheelers are organised.
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On 2/6/2026 9:25 AM, Wolfgang Strobl wrote:

Am Fri, 6 Feb 2026 06:09:38 -0500 schrieb zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com>:

On 2/5/2026 6:12 PM, AMuzi wrote:

Reader comments go on quite a distance

https://bikerumor.com/ebike-opinion-just-because-i-ride-an-e-bike-
doesnt-mean-i-am-lazy/

Reading comments can easily destroy one's faith in humanity.

I have not read those comments yet and do not intend to do so.

Personally, I have three different reasons for my rejection of
E-bikes, as these are sold and used here in Germany and those
European countries that I visited by bike

- E-bikes with a speed limit of 25 km/h have been officially
equated with bicycles by law

- People (mis-)using a nearby recreational area with is also a
nature conservation area by MTB now have switched to E-MTB,
tripling their destruction power

- E-bikes are advertised and sold to the general public as
bicycles, using the misleading argument that riding an e-bike has
all the benefits attributed to bicycles: riding them keeps you
fit and healthy.

I just don't care about internal disputes about how off-road
sports involving motorised two-wheelers are organised.

Good points all. Those, and a full spectrum from the
ultraviolet to the infrared, are covered in the reader
comments of that link.
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