From: mshaw@panix.com   
      
   J.D. Baldwin  wrote:   
   > In the previous article, Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
      
   > > >But the fact that e-bikes can go a lot faster is one reason I am   
   > > >wary of many modern gadgets - and why I don't buy them.   
   > >   
   > > That, and why aren't healthy people riding bicycles for exercise any   
   > > more?   
      
   > This might just be Cranky Old Man Yelling At Cloud ... but I think   
   > it's way, WAY more dangerous on the road for cyclists now than it was   
   > 30 or 40 years ago. In the 70's I rode on a shoulderless two-lane   
   > county highway, 13 miles each way, to and from school. (Not in the   
   > winter; this was Minnesota.)   
      
   But it was uphill both ways, right?   
      
   Some butthead kid has taken to riding one of those E-bikes at speed   
   (such as it is) up and down the sidewalk in front of my house. I   
   went out to try to get a photo or video but was unsuccessful, but   
   I haven't seen or heard him lately so perhaps one of my neighbors   
   clotheslined him.   
      
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   Mark Shaw                                        moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm   
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