Paul GrahamVerified account

Italian bike market is in line with the European trend – traditional bicycles sales -2.6%, e-bikes +120%.

@jajaranza what we were talking about yesterday

I have this feeling people are underestimating how big and ubiquitous e-bikes are going to be very soon. All the focus on e-cars.

What do you think is the mkt differentiator between ebikes and e-motorcycles? Culture? Licensing? Latter is v practical but slow to catch on

Completely different jobs to be done. I don’t know where to begin. They are not comparable.

Hmm, that’s not obvious to me. Bikes & motorcycles are very different, but add motors to each and there’s a great deal of use case overlap.

The first proxy for a difference is in licensing and insurance requirements.