{"id":3541,"date":"2018-10-07T12:47:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T17:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=3541"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:46:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:46:03","slug":"ebikes-are-an-admission-of-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2018\/10\/07\/ebikes-are-an-admission-of-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"eBikes are an admission of weakness. Yes, only weak people ride eBikes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s your answer.\u00a0 That&#8217;s about as simple as it gets.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve finally made the decision to buy and ride an eBike you have no choice but to accept why you did:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You&#8217;re lazy.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re out of shape.<\/li>\n<li>You have a physical condition you cry about and use as an excuse.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re a lazy commuter. Note; Commuting is almost the only excusable use of an eBike.<\/li>\n<li>You complain about your old age and geriatric condition.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I personally know people in their 80&#8217;s and others missing limbs who ride &#8220;analog&#8221; or &#8220;acoustic&#8221; bikes as the lazy hipsters no call them.\u00a0 And don&#8217;t you dare for a fucking second say anything about how you can now &#8220;go places and enjoy cycling&#8221; because you&#8217;re &#8220;pedaling just like they are&#8221; in reference to those who are tough and have strength.\u00a0 Ebikes are for the weak and therefore their riders must accept being labeled as weak.\u00a0 So when you&#8217;re called a Pansy Cranker or Sissy Spinner you simply say &#8220;Thank You&#8221; and ride along.\u00a0 You have no right to argue against your weakness and you will not be considered a real cyclist under any conditions.\u00a0 Most likely you can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t even be able to handle the bike under speed because you are not a conditioned or disciplined rider who got yourself to that speed.\u00a0 Motor+Pedals = Moped.\u00a0 Amazing some eBike riders will argue this.\u00a0\u00a0 These are the ones who are physically and mentally challenged.\u00a0 Understand that real cyclists don&#8217;t hate your eBike.\u00a0 We hate their weak riders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s your answer.\u00a0 That&#8217;s about as simple as it gets.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve finally made the decision to buy and ride an eBike you have no choice but to accept why you did: You&#8217;re lazy. You&#8217;re out of shape. You have a physical condition you cry about and use as an excuse. You&#8217;re a lazy commuter. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2018\/10\/07\/ebikes-are-an-admission-of-weakness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">eBikes are an admission of weakness. Yes, only weak people ride eBikes.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-riding-cx-mtb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3541"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3557,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3541\/revisions\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}