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From: Wolfgang Strobl <news51@mystrobl.de>
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Subject: Re: Electric bicycles, social policy & culture
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 08:52:26 +0200
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Am Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:40:59 -0400 schrieb Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>:

>On 4/10/2025 12:09 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/are-e-bikes-a-godsend-or-the-road-to- 
>> perdition-an-amish-community-is-torn/ar-AA1CAple
>
>A couple remarks:
....

>Holmes County, Ohio is quite hilly. We did a weekend there, riding 
>tandems with our best friends. One little side road marked the first 
>time we ever had to dismount and walk a hill despite our tandem's low 
>gearing. I can see why the Amish there would be motivated to accept 
>electric assist.

Sure. Who wouldn't?   But how many people of those who switched from a
bicycle to a motorized bike during the last decade are Amish people?
Wikipedia tells me that only 0.12% of the US population are Amish, so as
a first guess I'd expect > 99% of e-bike users not to be Amish. 

>
>Finally, while I'll never be Amish, I can admire that a culture has 
>priorities other than "How much shit can we buy before we die?" 
>Community is very important to the Amish, and community is a good thing.

But switching from bicycles to motorized bikes isn't a good thing in
general, especially not in a country known for their obesity crisis.

IMO, this is marketing for a motorized vehicle whose design mainly
consists of giving riders the illusion that they are riding a bicycle.

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