E bike intolerance

[Bus biker55]

Hi all,
We needed some essentials today, so I got up bright and early and headed for the local supermarket. As it has been a nice sunny day I decided to use my bike instead of the family car. It was about 8:45 when I arrived and there was sizeable queue outside, so I locked up my bike retrieved my bags from the panniers and walked towards the end of the line to await my turn.

A man in the queue started shouting out that I should not be out on an electric bike as bikes should only be used for exercise, and electric bikes don't give you exercise. I enquired how he thought the pedals went round, perhaps a little pixie did it! I informed this fountain of all knowledge that my bike is my personal transport, to which he stated bikes were not made for transport. I told him that most of Asia would probably disagree with that and perhaps he should do the World a favour and mind his own bloody business.

It just goes to show that even in times of national crisis pig ignorance refuses to die!
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[Amoto65]

I told him that most of Asia would probably disagree with that and perhaps he should do the World a favour and mind his own bloody business.

A very restrained response from a bus driver, sometimes I miss my bus driving days and the encounters with the many fountains of knowledge that travel on public transport.

 

[flecc]

Hi all,
We needed some essentials today, so I got up bright and early and headed for the local supermarket. As it has been a nice sunny day I decided to use my bike instead of the family car. It was about 8:45 when I arrived and there was sizeable queue outside, so I locked up my bike retrieved my bags from the panniers and walked towards the end of the line to await my turn.

A man in the queue started shouting out that I should not be out on an electric bike as bikes should only be used for exercise, and electric bikes don't give you exercise. I enquired how he thought the pedals went round, perhaps a little pixie did it! I informed this fountain of all knowledge that my bike is my personal transport, to which he stated bikes were not made for transport. I told him that most of Asia would probably disagree with that and perhaps he should do the World a favour and mind his own bloody business.

It just goes to show that even in times of national crisis pig ignorance refuses to die!
.

He was doubly wrong since your listed permitted reason for being out was shopping for food, not exercise, and for that you can use any means to get there.
.

 

[Bus biker55]

A very restrained response from a bus driver, sometimes I miss my bus driving days and the encounters with the many fountains of knowledge that travel on public transport.

So true, I used to think I was working class until I started driving a bus. Now I realise I'm middle class!

 

[Andy-Mat]

Hi all,
We needed some essentials today, so I got up bright and early and headed for the local supermarket. As it has been a nice sunny day I decided to use my bike instead of the family car. It was about 8:45 when I arrived and there was sizeable queue outside, so I locked up my bike retrieved my bags from the panniers and walked towards the end of the line to await my turn.

A man in the queue started shouting out that I should not be out on an electric bike as bikes should only be used for exercise, and electric bikes don't give you exercise. I enquired how he thought the pedals went round, perhaps a little pixie did it! I informed this fountain of all knowledge that my bike is my personal transport, to which he stated bikes were not made for transport. I told him that most of Asia would probably disagree with that and perhaps he should do the World a favour and mind his own bloody business.

It just goes to show that even in times of national crisis pig ignorance refuses to die!
.

Well done!
I've seen that sort of pig ignorance here and I have found that 5 minutes on my bike shuts them up completely....
regards
Andy

 

[Michael Price]

Hi all,
We needed some essentials today, so I got up bright and early and headed for the local supermarket. As it has been a nice sunny day I decided to use my bike instead of the family car. It was about 8:45 when I arrived and there was sizeable queue outside, so I locked up my bike retrieved my bags from the panniers and walked towards the end of the line to await my turn.

A man in the queue started shouting out that I should not be out on an electric bike as bikes should only be used for exercise, and electric bikes don't give you exercise. I enquired how he thought the pedals went round, perhaps a little pixie did it! I informed this fountain of all knowledge that my bike is my personal transport, to which he stated bikes were not made for transport. I told him that most of Asia would probably disagree with that and perhaps he should do the World a favour and mind his own bloody business.

It just goes to show that even in times of national crisis pig ignorance refuses to die!
.

presumably if your bike had a Yamaha 750 engine that would have been OK - but a 250w electric engine with no emissions is a problem
or maybe you should have a 2.0l Diesel engine in a Mondeo - like the last person who told be I was cheating

people are weird

 

[Gaz]

As we all know, you can't fix stupid

Gaz

 

[Bobajob]

I’ve had a couple of times that drivers have shouted at me to get home and stay in.
Ive developed a rather interesting phrase noW and if delivered quickly enough I’ve found to work.

 

[Michael Price]

I’ve had a couple of times that drivers have shouted at me to get home and stay in.
Ive developed a rather interesting phrase noW and if delivered quickly enough I’ve found to work.

Care to share- or it is not suitable for a public forum???
like maybe it ends in off

 

[Maleyale]

You should have bought him some tissues whole you were in the shop. Then told him to dry his eyes and get a life.

 

[Tarka]

We all have similar at one time or another.
A chap said to me once that nothing should be allowed that assists with moving along. I asked him if he was going to remove his shoes then.

 

[Michael Price]

If you are not allowed anything that help with moving along then I presume this person was on a bike with no gears??

and naturally they didn't - and never - use a car to get the bike to a nice place to ride