It’s marginal gains all the way here but genuinely if you’re an omnivore the E-Bike might work out more enviromentally conscious

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        12 days ago

        The bicycle does give you a lot of mechanical advantage over walking. But also this depends on road surface, condition of the bicycle and also incline. It’s hard to specifically calculate, but for most of the built up world the bicycle would clear easily. Unless you’re actively searching out loose gravel inclines to walk / bike up.

        Let me give you an example, most people hate riding uphill for obvious reasons but the speeds they pull doing this would be a fast jog or a run if they were on foot

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        11 days ago

        I mean it’s easy enough to test for yourself, go run at a continous 15kph for half an hour, then do that speed on a bicycle