Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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Some might wonder what kind of people will buy e-roads, but it makes sense for brands to explore this new market. I do foresee some friction on segment leaderboards though.
And you can think of this like regulated mechanical doping.
Sometimes people should ask themselves, 'why am I doing this?' This extends to bike designers, and 'because I can' isn't good enough. But, when you see a middle-aged banker resting half way up a hill, don't stop and ask if he needs anything. It'll be a charger :-).
I suppose middle aged bankers need something to spend bonuses on, these will be littering the hills in the home counties a lot next summer. Already been overtaken on the commute by hyper-aggressive twats on ebikes they have disbaled the limits on, a very tedious development, though at least they are fun to draft. I think everyone apart from white middle aged men should be allowed to have an ebike*
On the aesthetics.... that is absolutely disgusting. If I was going to design a lightweight electric motorbike for speed I wouldn't start with trek, I'd give it to KTM or Ducati.
*I am a white middle aged male of course.
The word "fugly" was literally invented for this bicycle.
LOL