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Ha hahaha

See a lot of hate towards e-bikes, I myself use to be a hater until I actually tried one. All the points in the video are spot on, and most of the people who hate never tried it. As you mentioned. Riding an e-bike can be a breeze or hell, depending on the level of assistance you give and the trails and distance... You can put on the same level of workout, I love non-e roadbikes and MTBs and continue to riding them, find them they are way better in most circumstances (short climbs, when going above 25 km/h). But just try to keep up with someone on an e-bike where the gradient keeps going up and up for long distances... It's borderline funny how you end yourself trying to keep up with the others... So in the end there's no reason for the hate. If you don't like e-bikes don't buy one, but stop being obnoxious or feeling superior because you want to suffer more than others when going uphill. If they were so crappy they wouldn't be selling so many units.

100% nobody wants to arrive at work completely soaked in sweat and exhausted 😂.. and to cool yourself down you need to wear light clothing and have your winter jacket on your backpack while getting wet from the outside when its raining 😅😅 i would rather take the ebike with a light rain jacket and functional clothing while riding and not sweating on your back from the backpack 😅 maybe i should figure out how to attach the backpack to the bike somehow but i hate these rigid bikebags 🤷‍♂️

Bloody hell that is nice Tony. That you've even been able to buy both is awesome. Almost impossible to get the Turbo Creo in parts of Aust.....very envious!

@@gavanconroy8453 and to think I almost sold it!!! For a few weeks I somehow convinced myself that I didn’t need it…. Ha ha. Then after 2 weeks I really noticed how it complements my Diverge. It just one of those bikes that once you start a ride, you just don’t want to stop!

I have both ebikes and gravel bikes. I quite often cycle my e bike with the motor off to extend range or get fitter. It’s only the additional weight that adds any difficulty.

If you don't like electric bikes, why are you here?

Alan: Yes, people do talk a lot of rubbish - it's horses for courses when it comes down to it. My rides had been becoming harder and thus more restricted over the last two or three years, so when I hit 90 this year I finally got e-assist. Enjoying my rides once again - it was a good decision.

@Wooly Chewbakker no

why wait....that's what you will be thinking when your 60...

@@johnbeedham3010 God, I'm tempted !!!!

zimmerzoom: You can just switch the power on for the hills if that's all you want. All e-bikes are heavier than a normal bike though - how much depends on the model - so it can be harder work unpowered.

@@vincekerrigan8300 cool. Thanks so much. Have fun stay safe

Same story everywhere bro.

it really depends on what you're looking for, if it's purely a cardio workout then i'd stick with a manual. If it's additional fun, longer rides without caning yourself, no problem with e.

@@riproaringblues actual i get my HR higher on an e-bike. I think it's kind of like motopacing in that regard. But I feel you do loose power. In other words it moves the needle from being power limited to HR limited (but I am 59 now).

@@jpravetz hi jim, i’m just a year behind you on the age scale. I don’t monitor my heart but generally feel I’m having a work out while commuting/ casual cycling. It was the e-bikes that got me back in to cycling after 25 years of not. I just enjoy all aspects of getting out on the bike, the cycling itself just being one of them.

I ride my stationary bike at home for fitness, but live on the top of a massive hill..... In a beautiful sunny part of Australia. The thought of riding a bike back up the hill at the end of a long ride outside (which I would actually prefer) is enough to stop me doing it at all. An EBike though changes the equation. Booster up the hill at the end of the ride - now we are talking

Why what's wrong with ebike??

They should allow e bikes in normal trails, I don't understand why they don't

@@arbjful I am not surprised because of the legal implications of the "motor" description. Imagine if you crash on a e-bike and you need to go to OCA (Ontario Cycling Association) for insurance or if you hurt someone while riding a e-bike and you hope your OCA would cover some expenses. I can see all kind of implications with this new trend. I wound be surprised if OCA would charge a premium price for someone who wants to get insurance from OCA for e-bike, or not cover e-bikes all together. I doubt OCA would cover an e-bike crash today in 30CAD per year someone needs to pay as a cycling club affiliate. It raises one valid point though: these e-bikes make unfit people ride faster than fit people, which could potentially mean less skilled cyclists going faster than skilled ones. This I believe is a valid concern especially if you show up at a fast group ride with an e-bike. I know GCN endorses using e-bikes for group rides but I believe that if triathlon bikes are not allowed for group rides e-bike shouldn't be either. I guess what I try to say is that the legal system is not prepared yet to handle e-bikes but I can see some hurdles in the future for those who own one.

@@L.O.K.I In Canada, e-bike regulations and retrictions are governed by the provincial government. In Ontario e-bikes are allowed on non-motorized trails, paths and bike lanes unless they are expressly prohibited by the region of municipality. I'm not sure what region of Ontario you ride in, but your municipality may have outright banned their use on some paths. I do agree that e-bikes can allow riders to go faster, but in Canada e-bikes only offer the rider assistance upto a speed of 32km/h. In my experience if you are riding an e-bike in a fast group (30+km/h avg) the members of that group will allow an e-bike as long as they ride at the back of the group on long climbs and are considerate riders. Of course every group is different and entitled to their opinions, but I know several 55+ riding groups that have allowed e-bikes because they help their members keep riding. IMO e-bike riding is better than no riding at all.

damn..I didnt know this.

Cause its fun riding under your own power, un-assisted

@@arbjful lol 🤣 I have lots of Bikes and options to ride. Carbon titanium alloy steel road gravel. Hardtail and full sus mountain bikes. I ride between 160 & 200miles a week. Lately, I've been taking the e-mountain or e-grave/road bike out, why? Because they are simply more fun, and usually allow me to ride harder and longer in the time I have to ride my bike. I'm faster than your average rider. Yet I ride e-bikes, have you had the chance to have a proper test ride on one. ?

@@arbjful I agree, thats why I sold my car and always walk. No assisted anything for this lug.

Because they like "cycling"

@@petrub27 I think I'd better add that I've been riding an e-bike for 10 years now due to a chronic illness, so I've given a thumbs up.

Well, I disagree. Keep it up and I give this channel many many years.

whoa. you may have issues worse than not being able to buy a bike.

Some folks don't want a mountain bike.

so... you’re saying dirt bikes or motorcycles aren’t fun either? or driving a nice car? because all you do is push a few buttons on those with your hands or legs.

@@fliptight no, I’m saying that an ebike for the purpose of doing “sport” is no different to doping! The issue is that we live in a lazy society where we want everything and now and we don’t want to invest any effort on it. Take the usual diets that come up every spring on how to lose weight fast. That is just not the right approach. Same thing with ebikes. Our bodies need the effort and the “resistance training” to be healthy. Don’t come and tell me that with an ebike you can still do big efforts because that’s only true if you turn the motor off! People don’t want to train a bit or are not ready to accept the fact that they cannot climb so steep without a motor. Again if you are old or have some conditions or your are commuting to work or...more than welcome. But if you jump on one of those things to do sport that’s just pure laziness

@@paolocapozzi927 first of all, i agree with you that we live in a lazy society. not sure if you live in the U.S., but there are definitely plenty of obese people over here. but that is precisely the reason you should not be anti-ebike. ebikes get people out and moving that otherwise would still be sitting on the couch. why? well first off, intensity is only one factor in getting fit. as a beginner, it is actually the least important factor. the most important factor in the beginning is consistency and committing to something for the long-term. if something is not fun to a person, they are much less likely to stick with it, and hence they don't exercise long enough to get fit at all. i don't know if you remember what it's like to not be fit, but doing exercise that feels very intense to a person (relative to their fitness or lack of), is NOT fun. for some people, they are so unfit that in order for the intensity to not be an excruciating, they either have to bike very very slow or walk. and i think you will agree with me that biking at very slow speeds, much less walking, is NOT fun exercise. if they're not enjoying it even a little bit they are less likely to stick with and they go back to the couch. but you know what's fun even at a low intensity? e-biking. SPEED makes things fun. you can't tell me it doesn't because otherwise there is no point to biking at all --even regular bikes. if intensity is the only factor that mattered to people in getting fit the only exercise anyone should do is running. i mean, why bother cheating with a device that has wheels, gears, and suspension and makes going faster easier? that's mechanical doping! under your logic, everyone should literally be using only their own legs via running and NOT pushing pedals with wheels and gears to get pulled up. lastly, i think you may have a misunderstanding on how some ebikes work, specially if you never tried one yourself. i agree with you there are ebikes that have a throttle and people can just push a button and do absolutely no work at all. but the e-bike mentioned in this video is a class 1 ebike meaning it has no throttle. all it has is pedal assist. on a good bike, the way it feels is as if you are biking on a nice day with lots of tailwind. this has no effect on how much effort you can put into pedaling. you can go still choose to go very intense on an ebike the only difference is that you're going much faster.

@@fliptight everyone starts somewhere and that somewhere is no fitness at all for everyone. The first time I went running I struggled to finish 5km. Many years after I did my first ultramarathon. But in the meantime I did not buy e-shoes (I know they don’t exist) because it was not fun. I wanted to do only what my body allowed me to do. But I knew that training will bring my limits further and further. You know the story of the first climb of the Dent du Geant? Mummery (not a nobody, he was one of the best during his times) tried it. Realized it was not possible without using ladders and left a note in the rock saying “not possible by fair means”. And went back home. Then the Italians arrived and set up a siege to the mountain and got to the top by just bolting tons of ladders and strings to the rocks. They barely touched the rocks but got to the top. That is the immense difference between getting to the top of a mountain and climbing a mountain. Now that’s the same with biking. If you are that unfit and that lazy at the same time that you don’t even want to go for a 10km ride flat, or even 5, then I’m sorry but an ebike is not the solution. An ebike will not change your mind set. That is the problem. If I know a group of cyclist if very fast I don’t use an ebike because this way I can keep up with them. Either I can do it or I train to be able to. And if I don’t want to train then I just do something else! It’s a matter of principle and most people are so lazy that they don’t care about this. But I strongly believe that an ebike used for doing sport is not fun. The issue is that people are LAZY! Oh an concerning the ebike is not so easy as I think. That thing has a motor. It will make your ride much less tiring. Unless you do what you should have done long time ago. Throw away that motor and do a favor to yourself and to the environment as well!

@@paolocapozzi927 again, I agree with you that people are lazy. I just think its a little close-minded that ebikes can't be a solution to get started with exercise. Plenty of people do and have lost weight on ebikes. so I take it that all you do is run right? Because you shouldn't ride a normal bicycle at all that's just being lazy. Why make exercise easier with wheels and gears. Everyone should do themselves a favor and throw their bicycles away the only exercise anyone should do is running. Making normal bikes also causes pollution. Using only your feet doesn't.

yes and innovation for transportation has also been evolving for decades. electric vehicles are the future. analog bikes will still be around, they are each fun in their own ways.

When I hear the word lazy being used I assume they only ride a fixie. Anything else would be, well just plain... LAZY

It will if the rider has a knee problem, but still loves to ride, e bikes are a boon to such people, I think it's a good thing that people are able to get out and ride

@@arbjfulthat assumption is often made but not realistic. If the rider has a knee problem, smaller gears will provide him with a better solution than a heavy bike. Also in many cases adjusting the rider’s position to alleviate his knee joints will have a far greater positive effect that a couple of watts worth of support (which will not help if the loads on his knee are causing him pain). An e-bike can be a solution for less mobile people but the strain of navigating around an unexpected obstacle in a knee-jerk reaction must be taken into account by both the salesperson and the rider.

Lol shut up