Posted on 06/16/2024 7:12:48 PM PDT by Jonty30
Having a bike for short jaunts is a boon. I could have ordered online, but to have a cart I had to guarantee a rapid release for my back tire to attach the cart to it.
My bike isn’t that powerful. It’s pedal assist, but there is almost no effort in pedaling up until 27kph. After that, then the bike starts drawing effort from me.
THese are neat trikes. If I could have afforded it, I might have gone for one of these.
Yeah, I can’t limit myself speedwise like that. I have to move.
My kind of bike.
https://electric-biking.com/fastest-electric-bike/
Do you live in a very flat area?
When I was a teenager, I was state road champion in my age group and nationally ranked. I was very light and hill climbing and bike handling were my biggest strengths when competing with category 1 and 2 riders who were older and fatter than I was... I rode over 10,000 miles a year at that time. Glory days...
How much?
Because I can’t attach my cart on a motorbike or moped.
To get a motorbike trailer would probably be way out of my price range.
One of my best friends from my racing days lives in Arizona now. Some of the people he rides with have extremely expensive road bikes that have been converted to electric. He says you sometimes have to look closely to realize that they are cheating. And of course, they are not as responsive to speed changes as a normal bike, so they are not very safe to ride in a pack.
On the two e-bikes that we have now if you are using one of the pedal assist modes and you stop pedaling the motor keeps assisting for a second or two. If you were on someone’s wheel you would end up running into them before the bike slowed down. And when all that power is cut off the deceleration is faster than when you just start producing a bit less power with your legs... so someone would run into you. So, e-bikes are useful in a pack when setting the pace in the front, but not so much within the pack.
My route is amazingly flat.
I either rise by 15 metres or drop by 15 metres, over 9.6 km.
The folding bike was $700 with shipping. But it is not a high-quality bike like the ones in the ad you provided.
The parts that I purchased for the Mountain bike were all on sale, so I spent about $450 with shipping.
I had a recumbent bicycle for years. If I had an injury or a saddle sore it was a good option. It was a very fast bicycle especially when going down a long hill. It laid you out in a surprisingly flat position, I called it my “street luge”. It was a short wheel-based bike where the pedals and crank were in front of the small front wheel. It wasn't very good for climbing hills and dogs were at face level.
I bought a “rhoades car” 4 wheeled bicycle. It was an adult sized pedal car and was fun to take tight turns and skitter sideways. I bought a motor and controller for it. But I sold the motor and the rhoades car to an old gentleman who had mobility problems before I installed the motor. Rhoades actually came out with electric assist models sometime after that.
Bfl
You can walk at 4.2 minutes a mile. BS
14 mph is very useful.
It isn’t useful to me. I may as well be walking.
H2 under high pressure. Enough volume at 1 bar to create a home-made thermobaric bomb when mixed with the ambient air. Think of nat-gas explosions that demolish houses. I've said for decades that if I saw my neighbor putting a hydrogen-fueled car in his garage, or even CNG, I'd move. In a lot of jurisdictions, fire marshalls won't permit propane-fueled forklifts to be parked indoors. Propane is less energetic, and stores at much lower pressure than useful volumes of hydrogen.
Which may be why they aren’t making it available for home use. At least not yet.
I moved to a place where the riding is more difficult and dangerous. The nearest decent trail is 30 miles away. Roads are narrow and twisty and full of lousy drivers.
So you need a fast bike then.🙂
You can get as much exercise on an e-bike as you want by choosing the pedal assist level (PAS). If you want no pedal assist, you can have that, but you will not go as far or enjoy the ride as much. With the right PAS level, you can ride thirty or forty miles and get the same exercise as if you had ridden twelve miles on a regular bike. However, I do find that e-bikes with torque sensors are much more fun than the cheaper ones with cadence sensors. The ride sensation on a torque sensor bike is far more natural, like riding with the wind always at your back.
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