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| pbj:
--- Quote from: Gilrock on August 25, 2022, 09:03:38 am ---I ride 90+ miles a week but I only get to ride twice a week. But its a real bike. The only time I consider an e-bike acceptable is when you have a wife and husband and one of them can't keep up with the other so the slow one rides an e-bike. --- End quote --- Imagine gate keeping a children's toy on a forum dedicated to children's toys. --- Quote ---The rest of you realize that every time you pass regular cyclists they are laughing inside at you. --- End quote --- "Cyclists laughing on the inside" have officially displaced "Europeans" at the top of the "List of Opinions I Do Not Care About." Thanks for the laugh, though. I needed it. :cheers: |
| fallacy:
Ya I don't really understand the E-bikes should only be for old people type of logic a lot of people have. Has anyone ever said a pure motorcycle should only be for old people ever? I guess it comes from a place of jealousy, maybe you feel they are trying to deceive you into thinking they are a better biker than you. At the end of the day if you are using it as a commuter then maybe you don't want to be dead tired when you reach your destination or maybe it is more fun to touch grass and not look at ever steep hill and saying f**k my life. |
| RandyT:
--- Quote from: pbj on August 25, 2022, 09:53:47 am ---"Cyclists laughing on the inside" have officially displaced "Europeans" at the top of the "List of Opinions I Do Not Care About." --- End quote --- QFT! --- Quote from: fallacy on August 25, 2022, 12:24:58 pm ---Has anyone ever said a pure motorcycle should only be for old people ever? --- End quote --- I'm an "old person". I ride motorcycles, ATVs and gas-powered scooters. I bought a fat-tire, full-suspension e-bike last year. The first ride out was a 15-mile trek on minimal assist. I was tired when I returned, but not run through the wringer (or dead) as I might have been otherwise. E-bikes are basically "electric scooters/mopeds" you can pedal if you wish to, or need to if you run out of juice. I charge it from solar so it's free to ride as much as I like, unlike my other toys. It's great to just enjoy nature without the gas fumes and noise, and if I'm just going a mile up the road to a buddy's place, I don't even need to pedal it. No insurance or registration required either (at least in my state.) I've even let a few people take mine for a spin and everyone who has wants one. Any cyclist who objects to e-bikes is probably just upset that they will no longer be the only ones who can tick off car drivers by riding down the middle of the damn road. |
| fallacy:
I tried a fat tire bike, I tried the Aventon Aventure because Electric Bike Report gave it the best Fat Tire Bike of 2022. I am not sold on Fat Tire bikes, it does not feel like I am riding a real bike; not as maneuverable or as light as I would want it to be. Might have a different opinion if I took it off pavement. I think peoples opinion will change on E-bikes in the coming years, they have only really come out full circle in the last few years and a lot of people don't like or understand new things. |
| RandyT:
Mine will do 30mph with very little effort and all the roads where I live have soft sand on the edge of the pavement. No way that I'd have anything less than 4" wide tires under me at that speed and with those conditions. I don't heal as fast as I used to. But I'd have gone for something more conventional if I was using it for city commuting. The one you are looking at is definitely a nicely integrated machine, but $5k? That's what I paid for my like-new low-miles Vulcan 1700! Mine was an import from Amazon which cost about a third of that. You have to take the specs with a grain of salt with these, but I fell in love with the style of the bike. Wasn't sure it would be very good when I ordered it, but honestly, it was way better than expected. I didn't really need to, but I replaced the seat out-of-the-box with something with more cushion and am now happy with it. If I had any advice to give (again, grain of salt) if you are interested in one, don't get a Walmart bike and likewise, don't get more bike than you need or expect to use. It's very easy to overspend on these right now and the very cheap ones are terrible because most of the cost is the battery. |
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