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Originally Posted by hipster duck
I'm sure e-bikes have taken off in San Francisco in the last few years. Since the pandemic started, there has been a proliferation of e-bikes here, and I live in a city that (a) has a lot of snow; (b) doesn't have a lot of hills; (c) has a pretty good transit system; (d) had (until very recently) a pretty lousy network of bike lanes.
I think a lot of e-bike adopters are people who don't want to take transit anymore or people who can't afford to buy and operate a car ever since supply chain inflation and gas price spikes took hold.
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Yeah, e-bikes are extremely popular in SF, I think largely because of the hills. I don't have one myself because I ride recreationally and for exercise, so e-bikes sorta defeat the purpose of that (and they're heavy AF), although I have seen a lot of e-MTBs for sale as well. But yeah, certainly you can make a strong use case for e-bikes in general, especially for commuting.
Another thing with SF is the wind, especially if you're near the water. On blustery days biking against a headwind, that can be as difficult or more difficult than riding up a hill.