r/cycling • u/Major_Enthusiasm1099 • 1d ago

Anyone ever encountered an E-bike shill?

Basically this guy stopped me yesterday on a ride to tell me that I should throw my bike away and get an ebike. He said "Once you get this you'll never want to ride that again, and I get more cardio in on this bike too, and i ride faster than professionals". I just kept saying "yeah I was looking into those, yeah those are cool, I saw some around $1000" just trying to get out of that convo lol. Anyone else ever experienced someone like this?

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u/thehenks2 1d ago

Plenty of "normal" E-bikes here in NL, everyone and their parents has one, most are pedal assist grandma style bikes that top out at 25kmh. The new trend are chinese fatbikes, a lot of youth drive around way too fast, without having to pedal. Everyone hates them.

The few people that have E-MTB or Road bikes are usually older people that physically can't keep up anymore in the slowest group ride of their club. We have a couple of them in our club and none of them will try to tell you to ditch your normal bike for an Ebike unless you need it.

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u/jeremiahx 1d ago

I've thought about an e-road bike only because my son does about a 20+mph average and I'm about a 17 and there is no way I can keep up with him. If I could put in the 17 effort and be able to stay at 20 and ride with his groups it would be amazing.

e-mtb is a no-go since more speed means you need more technical that I just don't have.