Crystal doing away with e-bikes for safety reasons

Starting in mid-July, Crystal River Cruises is shifting from
e-bikes to regular Trek bikes because too many guests were getting injured with
the e-bikes. 

Walter Littlejohn, vice president of river cruises, said
Crystal’s experience has been that many guests have not been on a bike for more
than a decade, and don’t handle the e-bikes successfully.

E-bikes use battery packs to power cycles on hills and in
other circumstances that make them easier for guests to pedal but harder to
control.

Crystal delivers the bikes to its four Rhine-class ships,
rather than store them onboard.  The
larger Crystal Mozart has carried bikes onboard, but Crystal will now deliver
bikes to the Mozart at ports of call until its departure from the Crystal fleet
in December.