In that search I also turned up quite a few artists referring to analog drawings as compared with digital art with the same connotation I have, which is that one is not superior to the other, they’re simply different approaches to the activity. Ditto plenty of references to “analog bike,” including ones in coverage from bike industry media comparing sales of the two types. – ran a Twitter search and found plenty of people using “acoustic bike” in a non-sarcastic sense, including a bike mechanic who works on both. I call mine a pedal bike, which makes no sense. Traditional is just more… um, traditional. I use “regular” for mine, but I don’t love it. – So my actual preference is “acoustic” (partly because it echoes Dylan_controversy …, so biking musician bro gets an irony award ) but “muscle” popped up once, I think it has a whiff of ableist hence bad, but in certain contexts ( vs trucks e.g) I think it works. I usually use acoustic informally, sometimes “pushbike” which used to be somewhat common for distinguishing bicycle vs motorbike. I invited people to reply with options beyond those I could list in a 4-item Twitter poll and got these: What term do you like for traditional (non e-bike) bicycles? Propose other answers via replies.Įarly returns went strong for “acoustic”. Of course I had to run a Twitter poll while I still can. Plus, I should get bonus points for “analog analogy”.) (OK, yes, not a perfect application of the analog/digital analogy, but not bad. So essentially the bicycling “signal” is continuous. The thing is, e-bikes actually fulfill characteristics of being analog in that you can keep riding them even if the battery (thinking of that as the “digital” component) goes dead. So far no bicycling programmers have jumped on me to explain the difference between digital technologies and analog ones. I’ve also referred to traditional bicycles as “analog”. Possibly the single most apropos usage of the term: the Acoustic Bicycle Tour by Taylor Ho Bynum, a musician traveling by bike. #EBikes #BikeLife #BikeStyle- Barb Chamberlain November 11, 2021īringing this question back around on Twitter yielded new fun finds, like Frank Zappa playing the bicycle on the Steve Allen Show in 1963.ĭe rigueur here - Jimlets N. Humorless people On Here have informed me that I should not use the term “acoustic bike” when comparing my analog bike to my ebike. When I searched on Twitter I found my follow-up commentary, which I deliberately kept separate from the original thread with That Person because trolls gonna troll. It was almost exactly a year ago that I had that exchange with the angry biking musician. Plus he only plays one instrument and I play two.- Barb Chamberlain November 19, 2022 Turns out he searches out uses of that phrase and jumps on others too. Got lambasted by a bicycling musician who wanted to mansplain at me. I referred to traditional bicycles as “acoustic” in a discussion of e-bikes. i think mine is when somebody told me i was rich and privileged for saying back service corridors at malls are scary at night when i was in the service corridor bc i worked there What’s the funniest thing someone’s ever gotten mad at you for on here. A recent tweet asking the funniest thing anyone ever got mad at me for on the platform reminded me yet again of this wording question. On Twitter (RIP) I’ve read and used a variety of terms. If it isn’t an e-bike, what term describes the bicycle that doesn’t have an electric pedal-assist motor? Ask someone what kind of bicycle they have and they may describe it as a road bike, upright or city bike, gravel bike, mountain bike, family bike, cargo bike, fat bike, trike or tricycle–the list goes on, and for most of these it may also have an e-assist so it’s an e-bike.
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