• some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Hmm. My e-bike is an electric motor slapped on a slightly-beefier-than-normal frame. The only electronics besides the motor is a simpler than dirt lcd-screen interface with spedometer, odometer, and buttons for controlling the mode and speed. The device doesn’t connect to anything besides the motor, and that’s by design.

    I have on occasion used bikeshare-style e-bikes when visiting certain cities. Those are certainly tracked. But I feel like the “conventional” e-bikes like the one I described above surely outnumber the bikeshares by several factors.

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      1 day ago

      I am sorry, the city I am in sometimes 98% are city bike company or whatever they are called, (shittee-bike.)

      Self owned ownes are the ideal. Fucking yes.