Electric bicycles - who buys them?
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trails said:
I bet that is hilarious, two wheel drive and a super stiff chassis 
It’s not wobbly at all; it feels just like riding a normal hybrid thingy, but put it this way, I’m not doing downhill trails and jumps on it. ‘Gravel’ it would cope fine with. But it’s more of an absolute urban weapon. Round town it’s pretty much the fastest thing there is. The narrow bars means you can filter through traffic easily if there isn’t a bike lane.
I love it, but also slightly fear and respect it.
Mrs BF wants back on a bike for local family rides, probably 25 - 30 miles at max. It's time for a little assistance, and handing over her Whyte to our daughter.
Because she's been used to something light and wieldy I'd like to keep the weight down as much as sensible with a smaller battery on something like a Momentum Voya. Would a 250Wh Battery be enough over generally pretty flat ground with the odd hill?
Because she's been used to something light and wieldy I'd like to keep the weight down as much as sensible with a smaller battery on something like a Momentum Voya. Would a 250Wh Battery be enough over generally pretty flat ground with the odd hill?
Just been on the first proper ride on the Creo this year, amazing bit of kit. On the road feels so much more ‘alive’ than my Boardman, no issues holding 20mph on the flat when on the road, but when the hills appear, an extra 200+watts is more than helpful. Really need to get some wider gravel tires though, as 28mm road tires really don’t inspire confidence on UK ‘gravel’ 
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.Bonefish Blues said:
Because she's been used to something light and wieldy I'd like to keep the weight down as much as sensible with a smaller battery on something like a Momentum Voya. Would a 250Wh Battery be enough over generally pretty flat ground with the odd hill?
If she has any reasonable fitness than 250Wh will be fine, I can get nearly 100 miles out of the Creo mainly because most of the time the bike is averaging over 15.5mph. However plenty of eBikes are clearly electric motor bikes, Strava started doing eBike segments, to hit 30mph+ average over a 7.5% gradient, that’s not cycling in sense of the word!!
Edited by gangzoom on Saturday 30th March 16:15
Barchettaman said:
It’s not wobbly at all; it feels just like riding a normal hybrid thingy, but put it this way, I’m not doing downhill trails and jumps on it.
‘Gravel’ it would cope fine with. But it’s more of an absolute urban weapon. Round town it’s pretty much the fastest thing there is. The narrow bars means you can filter through traffic easily if there isn’t a bike lane.
I love it, but also slightly fear and respect it.
It still sounds like a great way to get about ‘Gravel’ it would cope fine with. But it’s more of an absolute urban weapon. Round town it’s pretty much the fastest thing there is. The narrow bars means you can filter through traffic easily if there isn’t a bike lane.
I love it, but also slightly fear and respect it.
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