E-Bikes are the New Golf Carts

Fully Rigid, 12/16/21

If you look into the history of golf and the introduction of the golf cart, you’ll see many similarities between then and the “now” of e-bikes on mountain biking trails. For golf, the cart literally was designed and built so that aging golfers could access the golf course, as they said back then, but not in those exact words. One particular maker of golf carts advertised them with the name “Arthritis Special.” Indeed, in the early years of golf carts (post-WWII into the 1950s-60s) the marketing around them focused on “senior citizens” and to people with illnesses that made walking the golf course difficult for them. The entire idea was that you didn’t have to walk the course or that if you couldn’t walk it, no problem, you could drive it.