horizon wrote:The ebike stands at a crossroads: either it will replace cars or it will replace bicycles.
Or it might replace some of each.
horizon wrote:The ebike stands at a crossroads: either it will replace cars or it will replace bicycles.
MikeF wrote:horizon wrote:The ebike stands at a crossroads: either it will replace cars or it will replace bicycles.
Or it might replace some of each.
But I stand my my initial proposition that e-bikes will replace most bikes even if that's not all they do.
meic wrote:But I stand my my initial proposition that e-bikes will replace most bikes even if that's not all they do.
Will you consider that prophesy to be realised if in five years 80% of cycles on the road are e-bikes and the share of journeys made by bikes has increased from 2% to 10%?
Ruadh495 wrote:In fact I am hopeful that "conventional" bike journeys will also increase as the increase in cycle numbers drives a more cycle friendly road environment. There is a "slippery slope" but it points the other way; e-bikers discover that cycling is practical and get fitter (if you don't believe e-bikes increase fitness try riding one 20 miles a day, but take a 10 year lay off from cycling first...) so are more inclined to use "conventional" cycles.
Quite Streets claimed as linear car parks endangering all and sundry who wish to travel along them.Cyril Haearn wrote:Fred Grimm described how in the middle ages streets were full of muck, people just threw their rubbish out and called *gardyloo!*
Now the streets are disfigured instead by vehicles that get uglier each year, the new ones look even worse than the old ones