I have no tolerance for the SET drivers who only ride their regular bikes once or twice a year, yet they have the audacity to negatively judge me for riding an electric bicycle 8 months out of the year. They spew all kinds of vile crap like ‘lazy’, ‘blasphemous’, ‘wrong’, ‘should be illegal’, etc.
Well, I’ll have you know that my power assisted bicycle is 80% bicycle and 20% assist. When I use it on a regular basis, the mild sweat that I get adds up to more calories burnt than your once a month bicycle rides.
Also, you SET drivers, did it occur to you that electric bicycles have a smaller environmental footprint than cars?
And, before the SET stretchy shorts cyclists snicker too loudly, you guys are just as bad. Did you know that electric bikes produce a smaller environmental footprint than a regular bike? Your metabolism is only a fraction efficient as a battery and dc motor. —Kiss My Arse, You Judgemental Arseholes!
This article appears in Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2011.
oh oh ..greeny bitch fight..”fur”will be fly’n 🙂
Bwa-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha. Every revolution consumes it’s offspring. I feckin’ love it!
lol that’ll $3.8 Million OP. Check or money order is fine.
lol@ “SET stretchy shorts cyclists”
My buddy recently bought a motorized one. It’s awesome. I was just trying to post a picture of it but I don’t think I can from work.
They’d really kick up a fuss seeing us drive around on those.
So what sort of emission control and muffler does it have?
Well! Somebody’s certainly “amp”-ed up this morning, aren’t they?
“Watt” a re-“volt”-ing attitude these SETs are “current”-ly displaying. So “negative”. It’s no big “shock” though. Just the nature of SET’s. I “positive”-ly hate when people think they hold more “power” over others for no reason other than to get a “charge” out of it. It serves no purpose other than to “polarize” both sides of the debate. Remain “grounded” OP and keep taking the high road in all this. Keep us in the “circuit”. We’ll be keeping an “ion” the outcome.
And another thing..personally, I think SET’s deserve a great big kick to the “joules”!
(No? Too much? Over the top?….damn!)
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you are very clever clint and it’s only monday http://images-01.delcampe-static.net/img_l…
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lol…I think I just peaked for the week.
My apologies for the puns. I truly hope I’m not causing any “static”. I’m all about levity and “lightening” the mood. I can’t help it. I’m just “wired” that way I guess. A topic like this one will come up and it just “sparks” something inside me. I suppose though, in a public forum like this, I should really try to be more of a “resistor” and “conduct” myself a little better. 😉 (okay, I stop now)
You know what they say Vastie – the pun is the lowest form of humour, but only to those who didn’t think of it first.
This is so fake but I’ll bite anyway… Electric Bikes are more ‘green’ than regular bikes? They’re manufactured in the same plants in China from the same ores extracted for ‘real’ bikes. They get trained to the same container pier and shipped in the same containers as the regular bikes, and get shipped in the same 18 wheelers as regular bikes do to their North American distributers, who also use 18 wheelers and smaller gas and diesel burning trucks (Fed Ex, Purolator etc).
Come to think of it, those electric bikealoos are about twice the weight of the average bike, even by walmart bike standards they are heavy, so the effort needed to ship one is greater….hmm, eh?
How eco-friendly is the battery, by the way?
I drive over your environmental footprint.
“Electric Bikes are more ‘green’ than regular bikes?
Personally, I have to give OP some credit. I have never thought of it the same way that OP does until OP mentioned it..
I say that OP is correct. The CO2 footprint to generate enough electric charge for a full battery is LESS than the CO2 footprint of the big mac that a human uses to turn the pedals.
Anyone want to add up the CO2 footprint of a hamburger?: plowing ranch land, grazing cattle, moving cattle to a feed lot where you haul everything by truck to and from the feedlot. Then you truck the cow to a slaughter house, all the time it’s eating, shiting, and farting.
Then it is processed using electric machinery, then stored in a refrigerated environment until it makes it way to your home. You cook it on your BBQ or stove, then eat it. Then ofcourse, a large part of the burger doesn’t necessarily go toward turning the pedals.
GV – does the guy on the electric bike skip his breakfast or something? Your logic is flawed!
no no… but he can use that excess, unspent energy to quietly tug one off in the washroom before work.
it’s win/win….
for everyone but those that share the washroom.