“Cycling along on a fantastic state-of-the-art,\u00a0ebike. … Oh, Lord,” Robert Llewellyn exclaims.<\/p>\n
“Wow, that is amazing. Cause that is so easy now when I am peddling that slowly. Oh, there’s one of those red light things.”<\/p>\n
Ben Jaconelli<\/a>\u00a0joins Robert on the street:<\/p>\n “It’s nice to stop you know\u00a0because you can just get away up to fifteen again.<\/p>\n “I \u00a0think that’s one of the good things as well. It’s like kind of … \u00a0a safety aspect. A lot\u00a0of worldwide e-bikes would be safer than the normal traditional cycles — because a lot of the cyclists in London work so hard<\/em> the whole time. They’re\u00a0kind of willing to take unnecessary risks — to keep their speed up. On an ebike, it’s actually a pleasure to stop and pick up your speed again.”<\/p>\n Robert comments again: “That is so lovely. The way … it is so easy to catch up.”<\/p>\n Ebike entrepreneur\u00a0Jaconelli chimes in:\u00a0“It’s like switching from a video cassette, which I consider a normal bike, to an Apple Macbook. It’s such a huge jump. And once you’re familiar with it, you would not want to go back to the video cassette — apart from the odd old classic.”<\/p>\n This is from\u00a0another weekly episode of\u00a0Robert Llewellyn’s<\/a>\u00a0“Fully Charged<\/a>.”\u00a0This one is about a form of EVs he doesn’t typically cover\u00a0—\u00a0electric bikes, of course.<\/p>\n