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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Two wrongs don't make a right

But what about three wrongs?



This here is a "tandem electric bike" for three riders. It's actually a kinda clever design, if they'd put pedals on the thing rather than an umbilical cord to the coal-burning CO2-belching electric generation plant down-grid. (It also looks like you could break the thing over your knee.)

See this is my issue with electric and gas-assisted bikes. They aren't really minimum impact, they're more like deferred impact. I look like I'm better than you, but it's only cosmetic. Sort of like driving a Prius when an old Ford Fiesta gets better mileage.

Yeah, e-bikes are morally superior to automobiles and riding lawn mowers and maybe even Segways, but they definitely don't reward the soul like a bicycle does.

And they're not too hot in the chick-magnet department neither, you gotta think. You just don't see that many women flashing their tits at the dudes on that Segway tour along the Stone Arch Bridge.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Where do you put your feet?

Pinchie said...

Looks like footpegs are on the axles of each rear wheel.

Matt said...

I ride a bicycle and women don't flash their tits at me either. Maybe if I had a Corvette...

Anonymous said...

Women -- um, expose their breasts to me ALL THE TIME. Maybe you need to switch over to a vintage lugged-steel Italian frame, my friend.