{"id":66,"date":"2009-05-03T11:16:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T03:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/?p=66"},"modified":"2020-01-19T08:01:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T00:01:57","slug":"the-economist-plugs-ebikes-two-wheels-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"The Economist plugs eBikes: &#8220;Two wheels good&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pleasant surprise indeed to find a mainstream and conservative magazine like The Economist plugging the humble eBike in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/international\/2009\/04\/27\/two-wheels-good\" class=\"broken_link\">very positive article<\/a> just a few days back. The article is fairly short, but includes a review of the rather snazzy A2B eBike from Ultra Motors, a well designed and compact eBike with a good range and a well placed battery pack. A top end ride, this is a bike I&#8217;d definitely like to own.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes with a derisive comment commonly flung at eBike users, the old &#8220;is this just for lazy people&#8221; epithet made by dedicated cyclists covered in lycra and swigging from an electrolyte drink bottle.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to bash my head against a brick wall when encountering this attitude. Yes, I realise you need to make yourself feel more important and better than everyone, lycra brigade. But the fact remains &#8211; eBikes are more efficient that human-powered-only cycling, and by choosing to eBike, you are making a choice to use the most efficient form of transport that we currently have. This is not &#8220;lazy&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s smart and responsible. The benefit of arriving places not covered in sweat is really the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pleasant surprise indeed to find a mainstream and conservative magazine like The Economist plugging the humble eBike in a very positive article just a few days back. The article is fairly short, but includes a review of the rather snazzy A2B eBike from Ultra Motors, a well designed and compact eBike with a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}