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Don't know how to link to it by IMB magazine has this in its latest issue. They reckon we are in the analogue bikes last decade and give it 4 years we will all be fully electric ? 🤔🧐
Sounds like clickbait nonsense to me!
Not interested. I am probably already too old to lift one over a gate or deer fence. The weight issue impacts in other ways too.
Each to their own and nothing against them but they're not for me. I cannot imagine any future where e-bikes are the only option even if they do become the greater market share at some point.
Even in some hypothetical world where an e-bike was the same price, weight and spec as exactly the same standard version bike I still wouldn't buy one. There, I said it.
Why do people paddle kayaks when they can buy boats with engines?
they can buy boats with engines?
Bullseye
That's right, you can win them.as well.
People who refer to bikes as Analogue need to be disembowled and their entrails fed to the dogs.
Nope.
I'll still be ring manual bikes and eebs in four years time.
Just the same as I've done for the last four years.
That’s right, you can win them.as well.
Did anyone ever actually win a speedboat on Bullseye?
In 4 years time I’ll be 70, doubt I’ll be able to afford an e-bike, and at 70 I’ll still be too young for an electric bike anyway. Yes, I’ve ridden an e mountain bike and fully appreciate what they can do. If I had £4-6k to spend on a two wheeler I’d probably buy a Honda CRF 300.
If 'Analogue' is bad, 'Acoustic' makes me want to scratch my (or their) eyes out
Did anyone ever actually win a speedboat on Bullseye
Just one Stu...
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/you-know-coventrys-bullseye-speedboat-21788348
It won't be in four years (maybe 15) and it won't be everyone,but I reckon the majority of mountain bikers will be on eebs at some point (assuming they remain classed the same in law as a pedal cycle). Non motorised mountain bikes will still be ridden but will be niche like a rigid single speed.
Just one Stu…
> https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/you-know-coventrys-bullseye-speedboat-21788348
Aahhh Covenrty that lovely seaside resort. Very useful.
If ‘Analogue’ is bad, ‘Acoustic’ makes me want to scratch my (or their) eyes out
I think the best I’ve heard for a ‘bike’ recently was ‘Amish’ Bike. Actually made me chuckle.
They said a couple of years ago that you wouldn’t be able to buy a bike above something like £5k in the coming years unless it was electric. Still hasn’t happened
Manual bike, leg bike, push bike, standard bike. There could be a whole thread about names somewhere
In the same way as fat bikes will take over from normal bikes by the end of the decade.
And Gravel bikes.
And ......
I can't see it happening.
I suspect it'll attract a lot of people to cycling that wouldn't cycle otherwise; Green lanners turning to MTB, commuters getting electric bikes etc.
But looking around at trail centers which seems to be their natural habitat, most of the E-Bikers don't look like they've been cycling regular bikes and suddenly switched to put it politely.
Don't shoot the messenger 🙄 as for the copy and paste comment educate me on an Android phone please.
A guy in South wales referred to my Sentinel as a ‘peddler’
Maybe like 'wild swimming' - or as it used to be known; 'swimming'...
'Acoustic bike' - or as it used to be known; 'a bike'...
Manual bike, leg bike, push bike, standard bike.
Knee bike. As in "do you ride a knee bike"?
Reliability has to come a long way for me. And realistically unless they get the weight down it would need to go on a rear mounted carrier, and get sprayed with all that lovely road grime, which is no good for regular bikes nevermind ones with motors.
I do wonder if some form of regenerative braking is around the corner. Personally I don't have a motorised bike, but that could be a massive game changer for them as do?
I'm sure that nice Mr Sunak will save us from ebike compulsion!
Got an electric and regular MTB. I find both have their place, strengths and weaknesses etc.
Do you know what I find baffling? 5-12k bikes, electric or otherwise. Huge sums of money on the most marginal of gains in terms of capability or experience. That's what can get in the sea, as far as I'm concerned 😀
What an annoying article!
(Owner of ebike and normal bikes. Also an owner of electric guitars and basses and acoustic guitars and basses. Not an acoustic bike owner! Also an owner of digital FX pedals and analogue FX pedals. Not an analogue bike owner! FFS.)
I get a lot of enjoyment of riding my bikes from the knowledge that me and my legs powered it to wherever I end up, further than I could walking and faster too. Take that away and I'd ride less.
I do wonder if some form of regenerative braking is around the corner.
How's that going to work with a freewheel? Dynamo hubs?
Do you know what I find baffling? 5-12k bikes, electric or otherwise.
Yeah, it's absolutely mental to me to see people here (and other places online) calling £3k+ bikes on "sale" a bargain. Who has that sort of disposable income these days anyway?
Did see a TV advert for a mobility scooter with heated grips. Did someone on the editorial team not ask for something like this? 🙂
Who has that sort of disposable income these days anyway?
People with well paid jobs and no kids?
Looking on the EMTB forum, there’s plenty of people spending big money on bikes so despite what the news would have you believe, not everyone is broke at the moment.
Pedal
Pedal assist
Seems the most logical nameing
Does that mean I can get an 8kg ebike now, same weight as my road bike? With a 200km range?
It won’t be in four years (maybe 15) and it won’t be everyone,but I reckon the majority of mountain bikers will be on eebs at some point (assuming they remain classed the same in law as a pedal cycle). Non motorised mountain bikes will still be ridden but will be niche like a rigid single speed.
You really think?
I can't help seeing today's shiny eeeb toys as tomorrow's E-waste.
While they're sort of coaxing petrol heads onto two wheels (till they see anmout of warranty repair bill), I don't really see eeebs ever truly taking over and completely displacing the food old human powered bicycle.
For me it's going to be a sad day when one completes the tour divide or some other such big mileage event, that's going to be the true indication that human physical effort is no longer valued so much...
Solid bit of click bait.
You really think?
I was very careful to say I think they will for mountain bikes, but they definitely won't for all types of bikes. Ther will still be people riding the tour divide on neebs for decades to come, same goes for road bikes.
Commuters (shoppera,local transports etc) and mountain bikers will switch to eebs, everyone else will stay with neebs, obviously there will be exceptions ,but I mean a majority of the the above will switch.
Go to a trail center now and there a a significant number of eebs
Who cares what people call ebikes, or normal pedal bikes, is it really enough to get you frothing at the mouth that someone has a pet name for a different mode of propulsion, even if it's the original mode?
Ebikes are here to stay and will undoubtedly evolve and become better and better and accepted as the norm for many.
The market for bikes as we've all known them for years will possibly shrink, but it's never going to disappear.
I love my ebike, but love standard bikes - the next bike I own probably won't have a motor and will also probably cost more than the one that does have a motor
Normal pedal bikes are still going to be around for a while yet but some days it already feels to me that there in the minority.
Go to Glentress on a Saturday and it seems like there's more eebs than not to me , I had one day at the Golfie where I only saw ebikes apart from mine .
The main reason I haven't got one yet is money and concerns about reliability but I can totally see how great they are at the up a fire road down a trail and back up a fire road type riding that a lot of people do .
Another reason for me at the moment not to get one is I like to do enduros , very much a back marker but enjoy the day out and get a sense of satisfaction from completing the course. I just can't get my head around ebike racing , can't see getting the same satisfaction from completing it on an ebike .
Thought it was going to be bike industry journos collectively decided to stop writing about ye good olde push bike.
I heard analogue bikes are actually worse for the environment if you only eat avocados. Maybe they'll be a ULEZ on the trails??