thimblescratch

I was kind of being serious too. I appreciate your honesty. It just gets tiresome to endure the anti-ebike vibe around here. I really am questioning whether it would be a good thing or a bad thing to have a forum dedicated to it, considering the kind of sarcasm it garners on threads with any mention of power assist.

Thanks for your time and have a great Friday

Zeuser

Absolutely. The anti-eBike sentiment here is pretty obvious and is one reason why a seperate eBike forum is desireable. eBike threads pop up in other forums, like commuting, every so often. And while we're discussing the eBike stuff, some ****** always has to chime in with the typical stupidity like "cheating", "being lazy" and so on.

Maybe a seperate forum setion would be helpful to both current forum members, those 65,000 people Brian is so proud of having, and the few hundreds more that will come by for the eBike forum. Keeping the eBike threads out of other forums would do everyone a service. Then if some troll comes over to the eBike forum to bash eBikes with the typical ignorant comments, then it's pretty clear the moron is there for no other reason that to cause trouble.

Brian, one reason you don't have that many eBikers on this foum already is simply because you don't have an eBike forum. The question you have to ask yourself is: Do you want the defenitive bike forum on the web to include eBikes or not?

Brian

So will it be ebikes, or electric bikes?

thimblescratch

I would think 'electric bikes' would be better, because when on a search engine I think that is a more universal term. Ebikes are difficult to search because you never know if it is e-bike or ebike.

Brian

I'll probably create it this evening. Today is too nice to be inside. Ironically, I will be on a two-wheeler with a very large motor.

thimblescratch

Wow, SUPERhappy Friday!
Thanks Brian, and enjoy the weather

Zeuser

Thanks Brian. I'll spread the word once the forum is up and try to get as many eBike folks over as possible.

PS: Enjoy the Friday ride.

Brian

Well, I've built it. The rest is up to you guys.

adamtki

Thanks for adding the Electric Bike forum. I was wondering when it showed up. Then I found this thread by chance. I actually made a couple of posts in the commuting forum about wanting to see a separate Electric Bike forum in here.

Oh, and I couldn't help but respond to "how fast can you go uphill on an ebike with a dead battery":

Basically, it's like biking uphill with a backpack filled with a few books... or biking uphilll after gaining 15-20 lbs of fat over the winter. I'm 145 lbs. There are plenty of cyclists weighing over 160lbs. In fact, I can even load these bikes up onto bus bike racks without any problems (and I have a bad back). I'm not exaggerating. E-bikes aren't as bad as you think they are.

Brian

Only the ones that I've seen so far. I've yet to see one that weighs less than our tandem MTB.

Zeuser

How much does it weigh?

dauphin

Oh yeah, you're open minded....At least my mentally ******** son can't be offended by your remarks...

ptb1st

Thanks for the forum.

Brian

About 38 pounds. A single ought to weigh less than a double.

Zeuser

"******" is a psychology thing. It's just the Binet scale. And I was being generous by not saying "idiot" instead. Cause eBike nay-sayers really seem to have an I.Q. of about 50 these days.

It goes like this:

Idiot (0-25) -> Imbecile (26-50) -> Moron/****** ( 51-70) -> Normal (70 and above). Then it gets to the genius levels and so on.

The point being that the word "******" has fallen into slang as a derogatory term and people use it too liberally. I used it to describe the very low intelect of some eBike nay-sayers. And even though they may not be clinically classified as "******", they sure as heck are acting like it.

Zeuser

Well you're not going to get an eBike that weighs the same or less than normal bike. It just doesn't make sense. But I think my MTB with Bion-x might be close to the weight of your tandem.

I'll have to weigh the thing to find out. But just from lifting it by hand, it does feel quite light for an eBike.

Brian

There is a certain irony here that really hurts your argument.

As far as ebikes, I still find them somewhat pointless, in a lazy kind of way. But you've got your forum.