4/15/2023 0 Comments Rad electric bike step through![]() ![]() And the e-bike is one way of solving that problem, but there’s a whole bunch of others.Īnd the e-bike is changing the way we move about the world. It’s like, taking your huge multi-ton car seems ridiculous. There’s a lot of distances, a lot of errands you can run, things you can go, picking up your kids, picking up something at a store or at a pharmacy that might be a mile and a half, they (ph) might be two miles. That’s really exciting because there’s lots of different ingenuity going into different ways to get people from point A to point B that isn’t a car and isn’t necessarily public transportation, but there’s a lot of distances in life that are between those two. ![]() There’s the delivery workers who were on e-bikes.Īnd after what felt like a long time in which there was, like, two or three different ways to get around, there’s like you can bike, you can take your car, I guess you can take like a Vespa or a motorcycle, maybe you can rollerblade or skateboard, it seems like we’re living through a kind of like transportation revolution right now. There are e-bikes that are built out of kits. There’s the electronic scooters with battery scooters. I tend not to do it in the winter because I’m a little bit of a wimp about the cold.īut one of the things I noticed when I started this commute was, all of a sudden, the bike lanes were full of all kinds of new forms of mobility. And now, I still do it, you know, for basically the three months of fall when it’s nice, three or four months of the spring when it’s nice. But it was just, I don’t know, it’s my favorite commute I’ve ever done. And it could feel, at night sometimes, a little dangerous. That’s true on both First and Second Avenue going uptown or downtown, depending on what part of the day it was. You’ve got, you know, protected bike lanes, and I’m making air quotes, that include during the COVID era a sidewalk, a protected bike lane, and then the other side of the bike lane, like the shacks that restaurants were in with waiters crossing through the bike lane with drinks and food, which is a completely ludicrous situation from a design standpoint. And this e-bike commute became my favorite commute I’ve ever had in my life, anywhere, anytime. I was pedaling, it was a pedal-assist bike. ![]() It’s not like you’re just coasting the entire way. Honestly, it was about the same as the subway. So this was the sort of perfect solution because I could get to work, it would take me as much time. And so, if you show up on a nine-mile bike ride to work, you’re about to do a television show, like, you don’t look good. ![]()
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