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Would you consider this an expensive bike share?
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Its just one of many terms used to differentiate a non-ebike. I like muscle bike because while acoustic/electric bike is funny and clever, acoustic implies something to do with sound.
Meh, bike came first, as far as I'm concerned. It's up to noobs like motorbike , moped, e-bike, light-cycle to differentiate themselves.
Unless it's in a context - like said by an obnoxiously loud bloke in a leather jacket and moustache - bike means bike to me, no disambiguation required. In fact those people should be legally required to use the word "hawg".
Muscle is just an ugly word, when people say 'muscle car', I don't think of Fred Flintstone, I think of something pointlessly loud, fat , ugly, and annoying. In this case i assumed it was some overpowered e-bike with super fat tyres that does like 50mph or something - then I saw it was cheaper and was able to figure out that it just meant 'bike'.
My bike might well be ugly and annoying but, at the very least, it isn't pointlessly loud.