E-whine

[All uphill]

This time three years ago I was setting PBs and getting the odd top ten and KOM on leaderboards. It took ~2.5 years of long covid to start looking at ebikes and I so wish I'd bought one sooner, it's been a Gamechanger for I situation I never expected to happen so quickly.

You have my sympathy. Our son experienced long COVID in 2020, and as he recovered he bought a Tern GSD ebike which gives him great joy.

I've recently had a sudden change in my health and have had to make the painful transition from 100km days on my old tourer to being grateful for 5 miles on an ebike. It's all cycling!

 

[Rusty Nails]

It very much sounds like you don't NEED an e-bike, you are young enough to/ fit enough to use a "normal" bike. However, we (myself and Mrs @BoldonLad) are 77/78 years old, after age 75, we found we needed a bit of assistance, so, e-bikes kept us cycling.

More recently, Mrs @BoldonLad has been diagnosed with Alzheimers, she can no longer safely ride a bicycle (even an e-bike), it has nothing to do with her fitness level, which is upto the task, but, to do with dealing with traffic, gears, brakes etc. Even that has been solved by purchasing a Hase Pino Steps semi-recumbent tandem. So, we are still enjoying our cycling outings, and, keeping relatively fit.

I think the term "horses for course" may be appropriate.

Perhaps, more on. topic, when we rode our e-bikes (Specialised Vado 4 SL) we did get the very occasional "cheaters" comment, whilst riding the Pino, we have had only smiles, cheers and the occasional shout of "awesome", or "amazing" 😂

Never really fancied a recumbent but that e-tandem looks awesome.
What a great way to keep your wife actively involved in cycling.