• jivandabeastA
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    3 months ago

    If you’re asking why pay for an ebike to get less of a workout, i think the framing of the question is wrong: you get an ebike because less exercise vs a normal bike is still more exercise than driving

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I’m not talking about e-bikes, I’m talking about insanely expensive regular bikes where you pay extra thousands of $$$ to shave grams off the bike’s weight.

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        3 months ago

        Ahhhh okay yeah that makes more sense.

        Tbh i don’t get it either, unless you’re doing Olympic training why does it matter

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          3 months ago

          It doesn’t matter, it’s a sport. All sport/games are about overcoming unnecessary obstacles within some arbitrary rules. They’re not training for the Olympics but they’re playing the same game: electric motors aren’t allowed in the Olympics so they don’t use them.

          As for why they get annoyed at others using electric motors I have no idea: It’s like if a chess player got annoyed if they saw someone playing checkers 😅