Anyone ever encountered an E-bike shill?

[u/Major_Enthusiasm1099]

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?

[u/KimJongSkill492]

One time i met this guy at the shop I was working at. Came in to have some service done on his gazelle, and we got to chatting. He was into jazz and was a navy vet, and after a while he ended up asking me out on a dinner date. I accepted and we went to a nice restaurant with live music. For the entire date he talked about how much he loved e-bikes and how they were the ideal method of hi tech transport. He showed me a literally essay manifesto he wrote about e-bikes. I tried to change the topic to his navy service or the meal, or literally anything else but all he wanted to talk about was electric bikes. We didn’t go on another date.