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by sidewndr46 395 days ago
What is a muscular bike?
3 comments

Presumably the poster wanted to differentiate e-bikes (electrical motor assisted) with fully human powered (traditional) bikes.
The type powered by meat motors
I've started calling them "acoustic" bikes, like non-electric guitars. Not technically accurate, but folks almost always get it and smile.
Another name: bio bikes
Analog bikes
How strange that a non-electric bike now needs a special prefix. To me "bike" is the traditional kind and "e-bike" is the motorized kind. Has it really tilted that far? Not where I live, where probably 10-20% of bikes are electric. So far.
If Ford Mustang was a bike it would be a Richi Hulk

https://www.reddit.com/r/MTB/s/qBcUDZ7rqd

I was going to point out how bad the last few decades of mustang have looked.

Then I saw your link. Yes. You’ve picked the right comparison.