So I'd like to share my experience with moving over to an ebike. I have worked in the bike industry on and off over the last 10 years, when e bikes first started gaining traction in the industry i wouldn't have anything to do with them. I felt they were a threat to the work we had all put in getting trails opened and maintained. I was frankly a jerk to people about them and admittedly was on my soap box.
Well as life trundled on I was faced with a big choice I was completely to my surprise I was diagnosed with cancer at 31 years old. I went from taking podiums at road races and having several KOM's on single track to a weak husk of what I was, I was chemo sick like you wouldn't believe and no longer had a colon. I started to get my strength back and back on my bike but I was nowhere near where I left off. As I started to get my footing back and had did some gravel races the cancer came back worse than before. Now I was faced with a nother 2 years of treatment with a 5% odd to beat it. I decided this time I wasn't giving up cycling and got an emtb and was able to keep riding a few times a week. Despite the treatments I stayed in fairly good shape all things considered. After 2 more years of treatments and riding my ebike regularly the toumor that had been deemed inoperable has shrunk back just enough to be removed. That surgery was rough and I had several complications spent a month in the hospital but came out alive.
I was chatting with my oncologist the other day and he said "by all rights you shouldn't be alive today" things are now clear and my scans are free of cancer at this time. The oncologist and other Dr's really think that the fact that i continued cycling is likely what kept me alive in the long run. I never let myself become bed ridden and my emtb aided me in continuing to stay active.
That's my story to share, maybe it will help someone in a similar situation.
