I found a few past threads on e-bikes here, but one turned into a discussion of explosions and the other was from 2006.

I'm a cycling journalist and I'm really interested to know what intelligent, thoughtful, civil people like the wonderful cyclists in this forum think about these things.

As a woman with a 60+ year old mother who might actually ride a bike if she didn't have to suffer the indignity of walking up the hills she can't handle, I definitely see some good uses for these assist bikes.

What do you guys think? I'd love if you could add your voices to the comments section on the blog so we can expose some level-headed thinking around this. (The comments on a post in the Oregonian website yesterday turned into lost of piss and vinegar. Not helpful.)

This is the post with the rest of my opinion about them: http://gritandglimmer.com/e-bikes-awesome-or-awful/