What You Don’t Understand About E-Bikes Until You Ride One
What You Don’t Understand About E-Bikes Until You Ride One
Mine changed my life. One could change yours, too.
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I’m currently on a regular bike, and lucky to have my main destinations (work and the store) within a few miles on flat terrain with bike lanes. I definitely want to upgrade to an e-bike so I can ‘unlock’ more reasonably bikeable places and ditch the car for everything except long trips and moving big cargo. I have some people at my work who commute on personal e-scooters and electric longboards, too which is awesome. The more the merrier!
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Same. I moved to a place "bikeably" close to the things I needed most (like post office for my work). Every day of the week I toss on some ANC headphones (transparency mode enabled) and head out for a 10 mile bike ride to drop off mail and explore the neighborhoods as I burn some calories and jam out to some tunes. I have a nice size tactical backpack which I use as my "trunk" to carry stuff around (as well as spare parts/tools to fix my bike on the go if needed)
An E-bike is high on my wish-list, but I'm letting the "market" mature and see where things end up so I can get something with an upgrade/repair path to replace the batteries as they age. But I would love to ditch the car for 90% of my weekly needs.
For now I keep my bike tuned up and enjoy the workout.
I don't know about you but I enjoy biking because I see the same regular people in the neighborhoods all the time, if nothing more than a friendly smile and a hello - you don't get that same interaction with people when you're driving everywhere.
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Yup! I lost weight since getting mine and I've been a happier, healthier feeling person all around. I've seen and experienced more of my city, been places I never even knew existed, and had a great time doing it all.
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I hate living in an area where biking just a half mile would give you heat stroke.
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We bought a moped two summers ago and we rarely drive our car anymore. My brother got an e-bike and he loves it. I hate driving in my car and try to avoid it as much as possible. I am thinking we are going to get an e-bike or two soon
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I live in an area that’s terrible for bikes, otherwise I’d consider an e-bike.
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The big probem in the US is that even when biking and walking is technically viable, you have to do it along side the 45 mph 6 lane stroads that intersect other stroads with awful intersections and crosswalks, and if there is a bike lane it's a painted stripe along the dirty unmaintained shoulder.
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Same here especially with the widest of roads and the lack of bike racks. I also gotta mention the hills. I remember when our car broke down, we had to bike for groceries at a Walmart 2 miles away. Going home was uphill and sharing the road with gigantic cars are terrifying. I would be riding our bikes more if it weren’t for those factors.
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Do people have issues finding somewhere secure to leave the bike? I've been considering ebikes but my area doesn't have a lot of biking infrastructure.
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Get a very expensive lock, I wouldn't go cheaper than a kryptonite fahgettaboutit lock for around $100 and 14mm thick.
If it doesn't require at least two angle grinder blades to open then it's far too cheap.
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