This time, he let me go with one of those baleful, reproachful looks he reserved for people too stupid for words. The real target, I’m pretty sure, are the e-bike riders that have gotten the South Coast’s collective underpants into an intractable knot. I celebrate the machine as nothing less than the missing link when it comes to getting people out of their cars. Consider safety and wear from faster, heavier e-bikes. Out shaking their stupid fists at 14-year-old nitwits on crotch rockets their parents should never have bought them.