Oh so I can't express an opinion about what are my personally preferences on what is an otherwise beautiful bike? Things that OP apparently agrees with based on their response.
It is called having a conversation which is generally the basis of interacting with people here.
Beautiful bike, only thing that ruins it for me are those tan sidewalls but that is personal preference and the dork disc on the rear wheel.
A set of Panaracer gravel kings would make it chefs kiss
What a load of utter bullshit xD
It's not just about speed though. Additional power, particularly with hub motors, can help a lot with steep hills or pulling more weight on a cargo bike etc. E-bikes are improving peoples ability to get out there and be independent as well as get some exercise where they may not have been able to in the past due to a number of different factors.
By increasing the power available can help to make the world more accessible to more people. You can still limit the top speed that is achievable on these bikes whilst also making them more usable in more situations.
Higher power motor doesn't necessarily automatically mean top speed is the sole goal.
Personally I love to see someone downloading a shit load of stuff from me. Someone recently got a whole labels releases from me of over 30gb but that just tells me they have good taste in music as far as I'm concerned so I then explored their files and ended up getting a lot of interesting stuff in return.
I think these people with all their locked files asking for shit like gift vouchers in return for the privaledge of downloading a file from them are scummy, so the way you've approached it sounds great to me, you are sharing so grab whatever you need from people. Hopefully they will then explore your files and the cycle repeats!
If it is running over Wi-Fi it isn't really security, it is a toy. At the very best a visual deterrent for opportunistic people.
Lockdown was one of the best periods of my life. Getting to stay at home as much as possible and when I did go out people actually respected my fucking personal space.
God I miss it.
Doesn't really matter if it is good or bad, at the end of the day I am forced to go where the people I like choose to sell their music. Right now I use band camp because it gives the most money to artists and it is heavily used by my chosen genre but if band camp goes tits up I have to go where they go.
Outside of the US the kinds of people that drive these stupidly large vehicles are generally speaking entitled pricks or men who need it as an extension of their 'manliness' or a combo of both. So I am always extra vigilant around them because you know they won't be signalling or paying any attention to other road users 90℅ of the time.
What annoys me about all this LED crap is that I have to download whatever companies shitty software to disable that shit. IMO all lights should be off entirely unless you install a program to switch them on.
But I can definitely agree that the software is also shitty.
I did the same with my (now not so new) bike. I got the tan sidewalls with it and I wasn't going to waste perfectly good tyres. They grew on me slightly but I recently needed to replace them and went for all black and I am in love with the new look it has given the bike!
Exceptional bike either way!