@article{ref1,
title="From conventional to electrically-assisted cycling. a biographical approach to the adoption of the e-bike",
journal="International journal of sustainable transportation",
year="2021",
author="Marincek, Dimitri and Rérat, Patrick",
volume="15",
number="10",
pages="768-777",
abstract="Sales of electrically-assisted bicycles (e-bikes) have been rising in many European countries. Due to their electrical assistance, e-bikes could increase the number of people cycling and the potential uses of cycling. Existing research has not investigated the links between conventional cycling and e-bike use at the individual level. Using qualitative, retrospective data, this paper aims to determine how e-bike use fits into an existing cycling trajectory over the life course. E-bike users in the Swiss city of Lausanne (N = 24) are interviewed to compare their cycling trajectories. They fall into two main trajectories: &quot;restorative&quot; and &quot;resilient&quot;, which each represent different relationships to cycling and different reasons to adopt the e-bike over the life course. E-bikes might serve as both a way to restore an interrupted cycling practice, or to keep existing cyclists despite threats posed by changing personal and spatial contexts.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1556-8318",
doi="10.1080/15568318.2020.1799119",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2020.1799119"
}