Summary

I’m a flatlander who was born and raised in Florida. A comment from reader “Jon’s Thoughts,” however, made me realize how much electric bikes (ebikes) are important to enabling more biking in hilly and mountainous places. He wrote: “In the past we lived on a hill that made a regular bike a pretty strenuous trip, suitable for a good workout but not great for a casual trip to the store. The ebike definitely reduced the number of car trips for us.

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