• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    4 days 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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      4 days 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

      • Venator@lemmy.nz
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        4 days 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 😅