Should I buy an electric bicycle? Times are moving on...

Why would anyone want an electric bike?

Electric bicycles offer the same great benefits as traditional bicycles including cost savings (no licensing, tax or insurance required), no traffic queues, easy parking, improved health and fitness to name just a few.

The real advantage to e-bikes in my view is efficiency in climbing hills or fighting the wind combined with better range. If you experience knee pain or exercise induced asthma for example, electric bikes can breath new life into the sport of cycling. They might convince your friend or significant other to join you on the trails more often or they might enable you to commute to work in extreme heat without perspiring so much. I've owned cars and mopeds before and neither felt as safe or refreshing as cycling along community paths, away from traffic.

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Extract shared from a great article written by Michael Graham Richard for Treehugger.com on Smartertrends.co.uk