With all of the disincentives to drive into Aspen — including gridlock at the town’s entrance, the price of parking and the limited spaces to park — Lori and Larry Garon decided to buy two e-bikes to get around.
Having been visitors to Aspen for two decades as well as part-time Snowmass Village residents, they were well aware of the hassles of driving into town as well as the city’s ongoing campaign to get people out of their cars to use alternative modes of transportation.
So they paid about $3,000 each for two e-bikes from the Hub of Aspen earlier this month, and rode them from Snowmass to Aspen on July 23 to take in the Aspen Arts Festival.
“We did the arts fair, had lunch and came back to unlock our bikes, and on both of them there is a little computer that sits on the handle, and the button was popped off both of them,” said Lori Garon, who lives with her husband in Michigan.
Those buttons happened to be the ones that start the pedal-assisted bikes. With them gone, the bikes were effectively immobilized until the couple brought them to the Hub of Aspen. Store owner Tim Emling was able to restart the bikes by powering them up from the bikes’ undersides.
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