As you are my friend, I can offer you "A Wonderful E-bike Experience" although you'll have to come to West Wales for it, risking a journey through The Hinterland, where Welsh farmers hunt the English, for fun and pie filling.jimlews wrote: ↑20 Dec 2023, 11:46amThank you, "Cugel",
The wise didn't need the word.
I spent twenty years operating a CNC router. Before that, I used planes, chisels hand drills etc. I could do a good job with either.
Guess which gave me the greater satisfaction.
Clue: it wasn't the CNC.
When I retired, I gave up motoring. I don't have to have one just because the rest of the lumpen proletariat are dependant on them.
As with motoring, so with motorised bicycles.
Moped - a contraction of Motorised Pedal Cycle.
I don't need an E- bike. I'm still sound in wind and limb. If you need one due to some disability, or you just want one then crack-on.
It is your choice. No one is telling you not to.
In the meantime, lets just agree to differ on the subject and stay friends
You can ask me again about E-bike in thirty years - I'll be 98 by then; if Im spared.
You will get hooked on the motor, especially after the fifth 1 in 5 that seems to go on for 25 kilometres (they're actually only half a mile). On return, where you will eventually recover with the help of the ladywife's cake, you will realise that, despite your motor, you have had the hardest ride you've had for at least 10 years.
You'd also realise that if you'd attempted that ride with no motor for the killer-hills, you'd now be having the eyes pecked from your corpse in the ditch at 521 metres above sea level, by a gang of red kites, two ravens and possibly a goshawk. A passing Welsh farmer would "rescue" your bike.