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    Electric Dreams

    Aug 18, 2022 5 minutes
    WORDS & IMAGES: ANTHONY TAN

    COMPLETE GAME CHANGER, OR a natural progression from the man-powered machine that has been with us for the past 140 years, when the first chain-driven bike arrived?

    To be honest, I actually felt a bit fraudulent going into a shop that sold electric bikes—and only electric bikes. I consider myself a fairly fit and healthy 49-year-old, smack-bang in the middle of MAMIL territory, and the thought of needing assistance other than that provided by my lungs and legs felt like a betrayal. Up until a year or so ago, when I saw others on e-bikes, I said to myself rather superciliously, “Hey, that’s not cycling! That’s, er, um, well … something else.”

    MORE BIKE THAN MOTORBIKE

    But they’re not motorbikes. I had one of those and most street-legal e-bikes still require you to pedal to move

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