Article about health benefits of electric bicycles

[Rassy]

My sister that rides an electric assist bicycle sent this to me. It supports what I often tell people about how using an electric assist bicycle can give you more exercise than a regular bicycle, simply because you enjoy riding it more often and further.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/the-surprising-health-benefits-of-an-electric-bike-2/?_r=0

 

[Tom on 101]

My sister that rides an electric assist bicycle sent this to me. It supports what I often tell people about how using an electric assist bicycle can give you more exercise than a regular bicycle, simply because you enjoy riding it more often and further.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/the-surprising-health-benefits-of-an-electric-bike-2/?_r=0

That certainly fits my story. I was in bad shape, found out I needed a major surgery, after I wasn't too well either. I started by walking. After a couple of years I started to bike as I wasn't able to walk without pain. It helped but I couldn't really bike from home, too far to anything, too steep the hills were. But now with a simple assist set up I'm biking pretty much everyday. I can access places I couldn't get to before, because it's easier to ride I ride more often.

 

[dogman dan]

Not to mention, a ride on an electric bike can be the only somewhat fun thing left, when you are too sick to even walk around the block. Bad enough being sick, and then bummed out too. My recovery is so slow, it takes a full year to be able to really say, yes, it's better now than last year.

But getting out on the e bike kept my head screwed on straight, till I was able to actually pedal a bit on the rides. Then the easy exercise helped my do it more without a catastrophic crash in my health, which to this day (6 years later) can easily happen if I over do.

I'm truly convinced e bikes speeded my recovery, from post viral fatigue syndrome. You have to trick your body into making some ATP with exercise, but over do and you just destroy ATP.