Why I’m proud to ride an e-bike

They speed you uphill, and get you to work or the shops without sweat. Yet detractors still cry ‘cheat’. Here we test the latest e-bikes, and whiz past outdated macho attitudes to cyclingThe idea of power-assisted cycling seems to exasperate some people. When I talk about e-bikes, I hear: “It’s cheating!” and “The point of cycling is exercise.” It’s not cheating because we are not racing, life is not a competition and neither is going to the shops.