Acoustic vs Electric bikes.

[Vantage]

Same could be said for gravel bikes, endurance bikes, sportive bikes etc etc.
Does my frickin head in.
Back in't day when I were a lad we had road bikes, mountain bikes and tourers and that were it.

 

[Falsesummat]

Chatting to a bloke recently about offroad riding and I described how tough it can be on my gravel bike, to which he replied "was it acoustic?". No just a lightweight carbon fibre bike that i enjoy riding as fast as I can. That I'm 64 makes no difference

 

[kingrollo]

Acoustic is a daft term. Unless you state it's an e bike - then it's a given that it is power (or lack of !!! ) comes from the rider.

 

[Ian H]

It's an attempt to integrate ebikes into the bicycle fraternity, whereas they really belong in the powered vehicles fraternity.
Also to soothe the feelings of those who are embarrassed about riding ebikes

 

[kingrollo]

It's an attempt to integrate ebikes into the bicycle fraternity, whereas they really belong in the powered vehicles fraternity.
Also to soothe the feelings of those who are embarrassed about riding ebikes

Don't think thats strictly true. I hope to join the e bike ranks soon. Not really through choice or a desire to go faster without doing the training. - but after a recent heart attack - I either run the gauntlet whenever the terrain goes upwards - or use a bit of electrical assistance to keep my heart rate down.
Rightly or wrongly I will still consider myself a cyclist.
Without e bikes - I would probably quit riding.

 

[geocycle]

Acoustic sounds like a guitar analogy with a nod to the Bob Dylan concert in the 60s where he was called out as a Judas for going electric. Personally, I welcome the diversity of use and users that ebikes bring even though I’m still ‘acoustic’ for the foreseeable.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Nothing wrong with the old term pushbike.

 

[Webbo2]

Nothing wrong with the old term pushbike.

I bet you number the folk on here who haven’t pushed one on the fingers of one hand.😉

 

[Rusty Nails]

It's an attempt to integrate ebikes into the bicycle fraternity, whereas they really belong in the powered vehicles fraternity.
Also to soothe the feelings of those who are embarrassed about riding ebikes

Nothing to be embarrassed about in riding an ebike despite the comments of some pushbikers.

 

[Rusty Nails]

I bet you number the folk on here who haven’t pushed one on the fingers of one hand.😉

There are some hills I just have to get off the bike and push it...the rest of the time I use my legs to push the pedals round.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Where did the segregation of different bikes get all fuzzy? Was it the attempt to integrate a small word into language?

Bicycle (powered only by the rider's legs)
Ebike (powered by rider's legs and legal limits on motor assistance under 25kph and 250W max average over 30mins in UK)
Emotorbike (any bike that provides motor assistance over 25kph in UK, doesn't require rider to turn pedal cranks to get motor assistance above ~6kph, requires driving license and vehicle tax and motor insurance, no doubt other criteria I've missed)

 

[HLaB]

Is an acoustic bike one with externally routed cables you can pluck?

 

[brommieinkorea]

A bicycle with a motor is a Moped. A bicycle with a motor and no pedals is a Motorcycle. Unless I can play music on it without an amplifier it is NOT acoustic ! An "e-bike" serves only for its rider to evade licensing and insurance requirements. So in order to legitimize the so called e-bike, the people with them call them bikes as if they're normal and then have to add a prefix to actual bikes.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

A bicycle with a motor is a Moped. A bicycle with a motor and no pedals is a Motorcycle. Unless I can play music on it without an amplifier it is NOT acoustic ! An "e-bike" serves only for its rider to evade licensing and insurance requirements. So in order to legitimize the so called e-bike, the people with them call them bikes as if they're normal and then have to add a prefix to actual bikes.

The term is used properly for machines that look like a bicycle but have a small motor assist when the rider pedals
ONLY when they pedal
and have a cut off speed of - in this country - 15.5 mph

and the motor is limited to 250W - although how you measure that is something of a problem
and they DO NOT have a throttle

so basically they are like a "normal" bicycle but with a small amount of assistance - but not a lot
and you cannot just sit on them and they go


other countries have different regulations
and some even allow machine with MUCH bigger motors and throttle which, in my opinion, makes them just a motorbike

 

[ColinJ]

so basically they are like a "normal" bicycle but with a small amount of assistance - but not a lot

Not a lot to Pog, perhaps, but 25% more than I can manage for 30 minutes!!