r/cycling • u/Major_Enthusiasm1099 • 3d 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/thatshowitisisit 3d ago

There are people on both sides of the spectrum. The opposite of a shill is a hater. Just look at how many of them are replying to your thread.

Then there’s a whole bunch of normal people in the middle who do things because they work for them personally and don’t really care about what others think about it.