E-bikes for all!
Almost one month ago, noted surf stylist and artist Tyler Warren had enough. Taking to Instagram, the San Clemente local became furious at the scourge of e-bikes stuffing Lower Trestles sacred cobbled stone and penned, “The time has come to put our foot down and stop the use of Electric Bikes in California State beaches and parks,” writes Tyler. “Please sign the petition in my bio and help keep our special places not over run with excess of people and over useage that takes away from the beauty and peace of our last naturally beautiful places. The electric bikes have gotten so bad they are littered up and down beautiful state park beaches on a daily basis. It makes it feel like the 405 freeway when your out to get your fill of beach sand and ocean.”
Any surfer who has traipsed the trail from Carl’s Jr. to Lowers, on foot, has been wildly awed by the rise of the machine. E-bikes, piloted by children, teenagers, grown adults zip by at very fast speeds, whirring environmental happy (unless their charge comes from coal burning power plants). As Warren notes, though, there are many.
Many many.
Many.
Well, outdoor retail giant REI wants to make sure there MORE by pushing the E-Bike Act to its 2.3 million Instagram followers, inviting them to sign a petition that would “tell Congress to pass the E-Bike Act to create a 30% tax credit of up to $1500 on the purchase of new e-bikes.”
Clearly purely altruistic but who do you think the average e-bike consumer is? Impoverished environmentalists looking for a cleaner way to get to work, cleaning the air and reducing hair-pulling traffic on roads?
Me too.
Though, I’d imagine some enterprising San Clemente parents may get in on the deal too.
E-bikes for all!
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It’s a co op.
All they ask for is your name and address to become a member which gets you 10% off on all purchases and 20% once a year.
He was dumb for not signing up
Simple Green is the new Brandow: thirst mutilators
arnold is the teminator; you are the altenator!
cruisin for a bruisin north on HWY 1…”Little surfer, little girls…make my wildest dreams…come true?”
b4Ifuru>18?
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
Right!? So ass backwards.
They should be banned.
Kelly is so cheap he sews his old wetsuits into pockets in his shirt so he can steal soup from all you can eat restaurants
With regenerative braking if you pick the right route you can get more power on the way home than you started out with.
Never go full *retard
*ebike
401k, 403 (c) 405?
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rei is creepy, I went in there to buy a map, and they wanted me to join up with all my info etc. I said F that, and then had to pay extra for the map, just not to have to sign up!!
it’s like a weird f’ing cult
also, E bikes? sure, now go make more room in the landfill, and get ready to ship all the worn out batteries to the third world in a couple years! another environmental red herring & marketing bonanza for the greedy
that’s m’ rant for the day, sorry peeps, & have a good weekend!
I have major respect for the street pedal bike folks, traffic whizzing by, some even actively menacing them and they just keep pumping. E bikes and the people who pilot them need to be shot on sight.
still take a paper?
The pre-teens riding them really piss me off.
Es are good
Es are good
WHOAH-OH-WHOAH
Es are good.
Naughty naughty
Very naughty