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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
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Subject: Re: Press Release
Date: 2 Feb 2025 12:54:39 GMT
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AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
> On 2/1/2025 2:22 PM, Mark J cleary wrote:
>> On 1/31/2025 6:26 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> https://nplusbikes.com/collections/electric-bikes/ 
>>> products/city-edition
>>> 
>> Pretty soon there will be no such thing as a real bike where 
>> you supply the power. I want to pedal with my legs, shift 
>> with my hands. and brake with my hands and I supply pretty 
>> much all the power.
>> 
>> Bikes are no going out of style due to low cost but these 
>> these are taking but much more of the market. You can have 
>> mine for free if they gave me one.
>> 
> 
> In my (personal, but informed) opinion, that will not be a 
> problem.  There are plenty enough carburetted manual shift 
> autos, Knucklehead era Harleys, fountain pens, Underwood 
> typewriters and so on to meet demand. Where demand falls 
> short, those things get cheaper or sold for scrap; where 
> demand rises, prices adjust.
> 
> So I have no fear of any 'shortage' of classic bicycles.
> 

Indeed I do see lots of E MTB which makes sense as lot of MTBers are there
for the downs plus places folks go the uphills are generally fire roads and
so on, which are dull as on a MTB.

Cargo Bikes kinda makes sense to have a bit of extra oomph, when your
collecting kids from the school, plus the hire bikes, folks can just jump
on, will not get a sweat on for a short ish trip in casual clothes.

Don’t see many e bikes just for commuting probably cost, ie double the cost
and gets into the I’m going to worry if I lock it there range, so it’s
usefulness is diminished due to its risk of being stolen.

And see very few road bikes, I saw one chap on one few years back, older
roadie who wanted a bit of help back over the north downs, it’s still not
going to let him keep up with the faster folks due to the 15mph cut off for
assistance but that’s fine really, certainly in my experience that keeps E
bikes for utility and MTB, and keeps them the right side of the it’s a
bike-motorbike line.

Ie folks who want a 20+ mph E bikes for the roads need to just get a moped
and all that.

Roger Merriman