Making Cycling E-asier: Trikes added to range of options

Cycling UK’s ‘Making cycling e-asier’ scheme gives people a chance to try out an e-bike for a whole month before taking the plunge and buying one. Thi …

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Making Cycling E-asier: Trikes added to range of options

I don’t really see this as a net good if it means old ladies go from struggling to walk to electrically-assisted tricycles.

Struggling to walk to the shop is literally the only exercise my mum gets. It works up a sweat. She often takes a seat halfway on the way there and back.

She does literally no other exercise. And this is not uncommon in her peer group at all.

If the journeys being replaced by e-trikes are car journeys then more power to them. But given the limited amount of exercise being undertaken by significant numbers of the elderly if this replaces desparately-needed movement under their own muscle, under their own steam, then this is a really dangerous step IMO.

Yeah, make the elderly suffer…

At least they’re pedalling and not just riding a mobility scooter.

All this is A Good Thing.
I do have concerns over our current cycling infrastructure and trikes – so many dafty narrows to stop illegal motorbikes, let along racks to lock those or heaven forbid a car owner seeing one of them in ‘their’ parking space at the Co-Op….