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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Bicycle road test & review
Date: 19 May 2025 15:20:51 GMT
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Wolfgang Strobl <news51@mystrobl.de> wrote:
> Am 19 May 2025 07:53:26 GMT schrieb Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>:
> 
>> AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>> Absolutely hilarious.
>>> 
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB7pBrudFbg
>> 
>> He’s a good watch I enjoyed him getting on of the hire bikes working
>> yesterday? 
>> 
>> And yes those bikes are kinda the worse example of “the Tesla of the bike
>> world” ie IT fantasies about bikes than reality and all that!
> 
> The whole concept of "electrical assist" is a bad joke. Combine that
> with “designer bikes” and it becomes completely ridiculous.
> 
> 
It’s more the black box electronics and dumb stuff like hubless wheels and
so on.

Which is step above the e bike technology which after all can be ridden and
used if off even.

Roger Merriman