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The Fast and the Furious: Electric Bikers and Cyclists Compete for Trail Space

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fas...le-11622578941

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- Scott Sterner and his wife, Donna Rupert, 60-year-old retirees in Dunedin, Fla., bought electric bikes a few months ago as a concession to creaky knees and hips. Now, he says, when they go for a spin on the Pinellas Trail along Florida’s Gulf Coast, other cyclists sometimes yell, “You’re cheating.” Evelyn Rathe, a technical assistant in Dunedin who rides a traditional bike, says some e-bikers have called her a “Lycra cowboy,” as if she were a spandex-clad Tour de France wannabe. “I don’t even own Lycra,” she says. She says she avoids the Pinellas Trail on weekends because of all the e-bike riders. They often have “a lot of speed and not much control,” she says.

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