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Postby Joeblake » Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:11 am
Postby rcmkII » Fri Nov 02, 2012 5:40 pm
ColinOldnCranky wrote:rcmkII wrote:A month and a bit down the track and she now regularly rides 20-40km round trips on her ROAD bike (although the ebike is still getting occasional use.) The ebike odometer is on 1500km but the road bike has just reached 1000km.
12 months ago she firmly believed a 6km round trip was her maximum. That's quite a turnaround.
That's great to hear.
I do not know if your wife is riding road or not. But over the years at work many wannabe cyclists asking for my advice come from a position of being far to uncomfortable to tackle traffic. 9MHL comes a distant third.) Mostly I cannot give them any satisfaction because I live elsewhere and there is little rationale that is effective in getting someone who fears the road to get onto it. I wonder if some may find it a little less intimidating i, for a time, f they had a bike that they could just steer at those times of maximum insecurity.
Postby ChrisRider » Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:29 pm
Postby geebee » Tue Jan 22, 2013 12:51 pm
Postby rider007 » Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:52 pm
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:30 pm
rider007 wrote:I don't understand this thread - in what sense electric bikes can be bad? Compared to what? Conventional bikes? Cars?
Postby SmellyTofu » Fri Jan 25, 2013 5:18 am
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Fri Jan 25, 2013 12:15 pm
SmellyTofu wrote:That has nothing to do with the type of bike and everything to do with the bit between the seat and the handlebar.
Postby Comedian » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:03 am
Postby Howzat » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:18 am
Postby ozebikes » Sun Mar 10, 2013 9:55 am
Postby Comedian » Mon Mar 11, 2013 11:20 am
ozebikes wrote:200 or 250w is never going to give you a race machine, but it certainly will help those who want to ride but simply cannot due to health, age etc.
Postby winstonw » Sun Mar 17, 2013 9:46 pm
Comedian wrote:Many people say that there is some reason why they can't ride a legal ebike, and if you object to them having a 1000w monster then they enviro blackmail you by saying "I'll just drive then".
Postby geebee » Thu Dec 19, 2013 6:17 pm
Postby jimsheedy » Thu Dec 19, 2013 7:14 pm
Postby eldavo » Thu Dec 19, 2013 7:26 pm
Postby geebee » Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:50 pm
jimsheedy wrote:When I see an older person out on an e bike I think good idea. They are probably not up to riding too far and this thing at least gets em out of the house and stops them listening to angry person radio. Yesterday morning two middle aged "men" on ebikes went past me in the opposite direction on the ANZAC bridge. They were probably doing about 40kmh and weren't pedalling. They were dressed as in training type clothes and looked as if they thought they were taking seriously the advice of their respective doctors and "getting fit". Although obviously not athletes they didn't look too overweight and certainly could've ridden a real bike without too much trouble. The temptation to chase them down and administer a good slap was nearly overwhelming. I was left with a real sense of dread for the future.
Conversely the sight of an extremely overweight woman ( easily 150kg possibly more) I passed riding a real bike up the ramp from ultimo gave me a huge boost. She was really struggling but obviously determined to improve her self. I slowed down and gave her a bit of encouragement and had a bit of a chat with her.
On the whole I would say E bikes are a pox. Don't get me started on E scooters, if thats what they are called.
Postby jimsheedy » Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:04 pm
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Postby eldavo » Fri Dec 20, 2013 12:24 am
AUbicycles wrote:Electric bicycles is a controversial topic for some cyclists ... but the ebike market is growing internationally.
This is the first post.. and a sticky and is the section for dialogue for discussion the Pros and Cons.
Be friendly, be open and be positive.
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Fri Dec 20, 2013 2:16 pm
geebee wrote:The usual reason people say they can't ride a legal ebike is that it won't climb their local hills, which is no longer true any decent crank drive will climb 99.9% of sealed roads with close to zero rider input albeit at low speed, with rider input they will do so at a decent clip.
The truth is more likely they want a motor bike with out rego or licence.
Postby geebee » Fri Dec 20, 2013 2:46 pm
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