E-bikes are a thing

[EJphotos]

What does it weigh?

Giant claims 18 kg for the top tier model, and reviews have confirmed that weight. I'm getting a lower model, so I'm sure it'll be a tad heavier.

 

[SimonM21]

Found your retirement home

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https://electrek.co/2023/05/16/worlds-smallest-and-cutest-camper-on-a-bicycle/

It's hard to find a fancier 'invention'. But there is a place to sleep, albeit cramped. I doubt the safety of this "house". It could roll over if my girlfriend wanted to sleep with me

 

[SimonM21]

It seems that ebikes are all the rage in certain markets these days but I’m trying to gauge what’s actually happening locally.

I’m creating a little poll here to gauge where we stand locally on ebikes.

Make sure to vote on all that apply.

For what it’s worth I’ve been using an ebike to build trails for almost ten years already.

I've ridden the e-bike a few times. It's interesting. Reminds me of the feeling of riding a motorbike. But would I like to switch completely to an e-bike? Absolutely not. I could ride occasionally, for fun, but I'm not ready to give up MTB.

 

[scott62]

I was the same way, now I look forward to the next time I can ride my e bike. Being over sixty and not being able to produce high watts all day like I used to. The e bike gives me the legs and lungs I used to have. One of the things that sucks the most about getting old is recovery time just gets longer and longer. E bikes check a lot of boxes.

 

[Santapez]

I was the same way, now I look forward to the next time I can ride my e bike. Being over sixty and not being able to produce high watts all day like I used to. The e bike gives me the legs and lungs I used to have. One of the things that sucks the most about getting old is recovery time just gets longer and longer. E bikes check a lot of boxes.

Joe Friel had an interesting writeup on how he's old and was having trouble doing "easy" rides on the hills where he moved to in Sedona. He went with an eBike to keep the easy days easy and then his regular bike on the harder workout days.

 

[mtn]

Joe Friel had an interesting writeup on how he's old and was having trouble doing "easy" rides on the hills where he moved to in Sedona. He went with an eBike to keep the easy days easy and then his regular bike on the harder workout days.

That’s me…at 30.

 

[frug]

It was a group of us who came up on an amish rider climbing miesterburger

The Amish ride e-bikes where I come from. Not sure how this term got started. Unless you mean you met a member of the Amish community riding the trails. In that case, good for them.

 

[tonyride]

The Amish ride e-bikes where I come from. Not sure how this term got started. Unless you mean you met a member of the Amish community riding the trails. In that case, good for them.

The term "riding Amish" as we use it is just a snarky way of saying riding a non-electric bike, like acoustic or analog, because the Amish tend not to use much modern electronics as the rest of us. Nothing more.

 

[shrpshtr325]

So that's unnecessary as bikes have been known as such for decades. The new product on the market needs the additional identifier. Of you say bike it's a regular std bike. If you say ebike then everyone knows it has a battery and motor

 

[Santapez]

So that's unnecessary as bikes have been known as such for decades. The new product on the market needs the additional identifier. Of you say bike it's a regular std bike. If you say ebike then everyone knows it has a battery and motor

It's almost like some people riding electric bikes instead of self powered feel the need to put human powered bike people into the oddball category with new terms.

If my friend got an bike that was electric, I'd be asking "Did you ride your bike anywhere good this weekend?" Not "Did you ride your E-Bike anywhere good this weekend?"

 

[shrpshtr325]

It's almost like some people riding electric bikes instead of self powered feel the need to put human powered bike people into the oddball category with new terms.

If my friend got an bike that was electric, I'd be asking "Did you ride your bike anywhere good this weekend?" Not "Did you ride your E-Bike anywhere good this weekend?"

You make a good point. Everyone I know who bothers to differentiate is riding an ebike.... 🤷

 

[mattybfat]

This is the Ebike Thread about all things ebike. We get to call those other bikes whatever we want 🤣

 

[rick81721]

@Carson

$15.4K for a matching color bike. They don't say how much it weighs tho

https://electrek.co/2023/05/31/porsche-ebikes-released-2023/

 

[Ironjunk]

@Carson

$15.4K for a matching color bike. They don't say how much it weighs tho

https://electrek.co/2023/05/31/porsche-ebikes-released-2023/

Hopefully $6000 worth of carbon parts offset the weight of $300 worth of batteries.

 

[serviceguy]

It's almost like some people riding electric bikes instead of self powered feel the need to put human powered bike people into the oddball category with new terms.

If my friend got an bike that was electric, I'd be asking "Did you ride your bike anywhere good this weekend?" Not "Did you ride your E-Bike anywhere good this weekend?"

Reminds me closely the fact that food not artificially grown using modern crap goes by 'organic' (while it was just 'food' in the goof old days) as opposed to what is now considered 'regular' food. I'm still riding organic so far...

 

[Mahnken]

Reminds me closely the fact that food not artificially grown using modern crap goes by 'organic' (while it was just 'food' in the goof old days) as opposed to what is now considered 'regular' food. I'm still riding organic so far...

So e-bikes are like Twinkies?

 

[serviceguy]

So e-bikes are like Twinkies?

Not necessarily, I was just drawing a parallel with a practice that seemed similar in my opinion. I don't think negatively of e-bikes at all. Twinkies, not a big fan.