GRA
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Same here, and I feel the same way about hiking/mountaineering/X-C skiing. Personally, I hope someday to be able to emulate these guys:Nubo said:I've cycled most of my life. I fear that an electric bike would be the beginning of the end. Personally I need the bike as a means to measure myself against the world. That is the best thing about riding and I don't want to give that up, ever. If I begin dottering, sit me on a trike or quadricycle with super-low gears and let me grind away at a snail's pace if that's what it takes to get me outside moving under my own, and only my own, power.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hundred-year-cyclist-rides-100-km-17348952#.UHCbhFI8qcw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/1/oldest-person-to-climb-mt-everest-%28male%29" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
That being said, if I had killer hills to ride every day on my commute, and it was a choice of giving up a bike and switching to a car or going with an e-bike, I'd opt for the bike. I'm still outside and doing at least some of the work.