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Do electric mountain bikes have gears?

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Lance Branquinho

Lance Branquinho is a Namibian-born media professional who graduated to mountain biking after injuries curtailed his fascination with trail running. He has a weakness for British steel hardtails, especially those which only run a single gear. Lance is an award-winning writer who has contributed to myriad piblications all over the world including Cyclingnews, Bike Perfect, MBR, Topgear, TopCar and Car magazine.

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1 week 15 hours ago

"analogue bike" is daft - not quite as daft as "acoustic bike", but still daft. I presume you got "analogue" because you feel it's in opposition to "electrical" in some way, cause in the tech world you've got "electronic" and "analogue"? Except that's not even right... In electronics we have "digital electronics" (as in 'discrete' numbers) versus "analogue electronics". Electrical things can easily be analogue - indeed, lots of electronic stuff has analogue electronics in it. The developed world was full of analogue electronics, and even analogue electronic computers, before digital electronics came along.

The words you're looking for are "human powered bike" or "ordinary bike".

Stop using terms in ways that make fuck all sense.

Hell, an ordinary bike isn't even that analogue. The gear systems in most bikes these days shift to *discrete* gears - the opposite of the meaning of "analogue" (at least, as used in technology, where it generally is used synonymously with continuous).