When the battery/storage technology matures and the various designers stop making concept models that look like a scooter had a torrid affair with an ironing board, electric bikes will offer performance that will make today's bikes look like victorian steam-driven relics.
In fact, the faster fuel prices rise, the sooner this day will eventuate.
And while you will undoubtedly object to the prospective lack of aural stimulation from these electron-fired contraptions, I predict some subset of hardcore mod aficionados of the time to attach large synthesized noisemaking devices to their bikes to recapture that genuine "fossil fuel sound".
In fact I can imagine a HD of 50 years hence that looks and sounds and handles exactly like a Harley Davidson of today without burning a single molecule of gasoline.
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