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As Teens Take to E-Bikes, Parents Ask: Is This Freedom or Danger? (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] appel@whiskers.bim.boats 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why do perfectly healthy teenagers need electric bikes? I understand the case for less physically able to use ebikes, but why can't these kids just use regular bikes? Has everyone forgotten how to use their bodies?

Edit: carbrains have arrived

[-] dark_stang@beehaw.org 37 points 10 months ago

Hills exist, sometimes you need to go 20 miles, we have record setting temperatures every day, public transit sucks most places, and a lot of areas don't have bike lanes so you keep up with traffic or get ran over. E-bikes are good for everybody.

[-] Alto@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

Hills are the main reason I'd love an ebike. I bike pretty regularly, but I'm simply not capable of going 20+ up a big hill. I live in a ridiculously hilly area, trying to ride on the roads as is would be borderline suicidal

[-] dark_stang@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Used to bike 12 miles most days for my commute several years ago. All hills. On the real steep ones I'd be going 2-3 mph up them and 35mph down them. Pedal assist would have been real nice back then. I would drive in on meeting heavy days just so I wouldn't be sweaty in front of clients in the morning.