e-Bikes Should Be More Popular
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Amazon is your friend - just change the saddle seat.
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Pipe wrench is the ticket for bikes.
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Touring in the midwest somewhere my bottom bracket started clunking. Square taper cartridge thing. I had a stubby Snap On screwdriver and I borrowed a claw hammer from the motel that night and hammered the lock ring off using the screwdriver as a punch, wrapped electrical tape on the cartridge and hammered it back together. It was still like that when I sold it a couple years later.
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e-bike aficionados are the 2020's equivalent of 1990's recumbent evangelists.
and so it goes.
and so it goes.
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Touring in the midwest somewhere my bottom bracket started clunking. Square taper cartridge thing. I had a stubby Snap On screwdriver and I borrowed a claw hammer from the motel that night and hammered the lock ring off using the screwdriver as a punch, wrapped electrical tape on the cartridge and hammered it back together. It was still like that when I sold it a couple years later.
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Or you just ride faster for the same effort. It all depends on the reason why you are riding a pedal assist e-bike and what type of e-bike it is. It’s not as obvious as you make it sound.
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Some of the contributors to those threads were sincere but just couldn't get their heads around the difference between weightlifting, where there's a direct correlation between weight and effort, and cycling on geared bikes, where the gearing makes comparisons of lighter and heavier bikes all but meaningless.
Same deal with ebikes. You can work hard on an ebike; you can take it easy on an ebike. You choose the effort level. Just the way you can pick gears for easier or harder workouts on an unpowered bike.
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I have no problem with RESPONSIBLE RIDERS on e-bikes. Don't care for ones like the idiot that came flying around a corner fast enough that he had to go to the outside of the corner in order to make it, this as I was coming the other way.
But one thing I don't understand with many e-bike posts is: the great majority of us here are at least fairly well educated on bicycles and are well aware of the capabilities of e-bikes and why/how riders may use them. If you find e-bikes so wonderful, why do you feel the need to pass that along to the rest of us. I know well what e-bikes are capable of, many I know ride them. It's almost like we need to be convinced that they are so wonderful. For various reasons, many of us will continue riding our analog bikes, and may switch to an e-bike at some point but prefer our current rides for now. Any time someone needs to try to convince me something is so desirable; it tends to make me wonder why is it necessary? PS--figured it was serious, not a troll post or April Fools.
But one thing I don't understand with many e-bike posts is: the great majority of us here are at least fairly well educated on bicycles and are well aware of the capabilities of e-bikes and why/how riders may use them. If you find e-bikes so wonderful, why do you feel the need to pass that along to the rest of us. I know well what e-bikes are capable of, many I know ride them. It's almost like we need to be convinced that they are so wonderful. For various reasons, many of us will continue riding our analog bikes, and may switch to an e-bike at some point but prefer our current rides for now. Any time someone needs to try to convince me something is so desirable; it tends to make me wonder why is it necessary? PS--figured it was serious, not a troll post or April Fools.
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Are E recumbent bikes a thing? That would be the best of both worlds!
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Yes, they are. I met someone on one. Said he could not ride an "upright" bike due to an injury and had lost some leg strength, but enjoyed getting out on a bike. He was very happy to be able to get out on his e-rucumbent.
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I really dislike posts that are trying to tell others that the posters way is the best way for others. Then go on and list untrue reasons why.
Nothing SHOULD be more or less popular. And certainly not for reasons that are anti to why and how others do what they do.
I’ve been on an electric bike, I have no interest in acquiring one. My sister has one, she really likes it, and would not be participating any where near as much on a bike with a traditional drivetrain. Kudos to her. She do she, me do me.
Nothing SHOULD be more or less popular. And certainly not for reasons that are anti to why and how others do what they do.
I’ve been on an electric bike, I have no interest in acquiring one. My sister has one, she really likes it, and would not be participating any where near as much on a bike with a traditional drivetrain. Kudos to her. She do she, me do me.
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there's a couple who ride e-recumbent trikes on our MUP. They ride full throttle, no pedaling, taking up the entire path like they own it. The guy who has four huskies pulling him on a wheeled pulk takes up less space and is far more courteous. <--- I need to get a picture of that.
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I'm thinking about getting one to race CAT 6. Load the results on Strava and take those KOMs.
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Do the same issues exist for eclectic bikes?
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Hey, it's now April 2. Put a fork in it.