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Post by righthand »

mikestew wrote: post #417
righthand wrote: post #401

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I have ridden a pedal assist ebike and the amount of push I apply to a pedal is 100x less effort than I would to a standard bike. There is no way the physical benefits are remotely the same. Good for you for avoiding exercise though. Also I live in Brooklyn with plenty of long hills. I also have plenty of friends with ebikes here who swear by them like you do. They struggle with health issues related to physical acti…

Good for you for avoiding exercise though. I realize that you really, really want to think that we are talking about electric motorcycles, but you obviously have no idea how e-bikes work, so I see little benefit in discussing it further. My HR monitor says I get plenty of exercise on an e-bike.

The majority of ebikes people are riding are going to be pedal assist bikes like Citibike ebikes. It is very clear to me that you do not want to acknowledge the substantial decline in health benefits with ebikes compared to standard bikes and do not fully understand that while convenient for longer distances they are slightly less healthy than walking. But okay continue to claim that I’m ignorant of the magic of ebikes. Typical “you just don’t get it” response when pointing out obvious falsehoods. I’m glad you found something that gets you around and isnt a car and does give you a bit of healthy benefits as well (heavy emphasis on ‘a bit’). Maybe I’m being aggressive but I’m hardly wrong or lacking understanding.

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Post by Alephinitesimal »

taneq wrote: post #125
Gigachad wrote: post #106

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Tbh solving this is one of the actual use cases for things like flock cameras. Simply bolting things down harder is still defeated by a battery powered grinder.

You don’t gotta be impossible to steal from, you just gotta be more annoying to steal from than the next guy.

I learned this. I had what I thought was a pretty good lock, but the chain was cut very clean. The cut was almost perfect flat, so I assume they used a power tool.

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Post by f6v »

selfhoster1312 wrote: post #181
fwipsy wrote: post #132

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Wow, $2k? You could get a decent ebike for that money. And the installation doesn't look any easier than a hub motor... Only seems worth it if you already have an extremely nice bike. I think of friction drives as being aimed at budget-conscious commuters, not serious mountain bikers.

I was shocked by the price, too. I mean a motor and a battery can't be so expensive, especially such a "small" battery (300Wh). That being said, having driven electric bikes for a while, here in France they're ridiculously limited in speed and power. 25km/h limit on flat land usually makes sense (except on long straight lines), but when you get climbing even slightly you get down to ~10km/h and have to provide more e…

I climb hills at 25km/h with zero effort (with a strong wind) on Ecoride Ambassador.

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Post by dwedge »

Yizahi wrote: post #403
selfhoster1312 wrote: post #181

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I was shocked by the price, too. I mean a motor and a battery can't be so expensive, especially such a "small" battery (300Wh). That being said, having driven electric bikes for a while, here in France they're ridiculously limited in speed and power. 25km/h limit on flat land usually makes sense (except on long straight lines), but when you get climbing even slightly you get down to ~10km/h and have to provide more e…

Not a single country in the EU limits a speed or power of the EV motorcycles. They do limit these vehicles to an appropriate places which are called "roads" and do require a proper vehicle license and registration. A person can ride their Suicide Killer 9000 Pro Max with any motor power and any speed in the whole EU area really, no problem. On. A. Damn. Road. Where. It. Belongs.

Any sources for the whole EU not having speed limits on roads, restricting ebikes to roads only or not having restrictions on power?

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Post by f6v »

carlosjobim wrote: post #300
calmbonsai wrote: post #43

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Yeah. I don’t see weather or theft addressed in this design. I recall a wheel-mounted rotor system from a few years back that did address theft, tire-wear, and weather, but it suffered from far too little torque and very limited battery life.

Millions and millions of people live in places where theft isn't a concern.

I live in the city considered to be one of the best to live in Europe. Bike theft is absolutely an issue here. I'm afraid to imagine what happens in other countries.

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Post by emil-lp »

mchusma wrote: post #405

I really think ebikes, and things like this, would have a much better reputation if they really only supported up to maybe 10 km/h or 6 mph. This is a normalish running/jogging pace. Basically, they helped up hills and when tired but were not "motorcycles-lite". At least around us, in an area with lots of kids, people want to have them but there are so many injuries and problems that sentiment is generally very negat…

> I really think ebikes, and things like this, would have a much better reputation if they really only supported up to maybe 10 km/h or 6 mph.

Where is it ebikes don't have a good reputation?

Where I'm living, they have a very good reputation, and very many have them.

The motor shuts off at 26km/h.

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Post by myself248 »

The only feature I care about here, is that it charges over USB-C PD, which every ebike battery for the last 12 years could have done, and should have done, yet here we are.

Is it the very first? I have no idea. But it's the first that I've run across, and I'm ecstatic that it exists.

Proprietary power bricks for anything are stone-age and should be shunned by the market. Maybe the ebike market will start doing so.

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Post by johnwalkr »

lukan wrote: post #308
Galanwe wrote: post #295

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You are being confused, vehicles by themselves are not limited, their category is. You can have an electric vehicle that runs at 100kph if you want, but that is not a bike, that is a motorcycle. The problem here is people having vehicles assimilated as ebikes, but with radically different specs. I have no problem with these guys driving their vehicles on the car lane, like motorbikes do, but that's not what we're tal…

Ok, but I am talking about being able to drive in city traffic and keep up with cars and not be a blocker - and then go to the forest with my e-bike where I do mind the other people walking around there and drive adequate. Not possible with current legislation. I can only drive my E-Bike with my car to the forest (like to many people do), or drive slowly there myself.

In Europe a class 1 ebike can't have a throttle and assist must be limited to 25km/h (it's 32km/h in the US). They can be faster and have a throttle, but then they are more like scooters in terms of licensing and insurance. If you go to most bike shops in Western Europe they will only have class 1 e-bikes. A class 1 bike is generally allowed everywhere a bike is.

While there are a lot of people riding more powerful bikes in Europe illegally, at least some countries are trying to crack down on them. In the US, it seems easier to buy class 2 and 3 e-bikes, and there seems to be a higher proportion of illegal bikes. It's an open secret which "class 1" bikes you can buy and then overclock easily.

So in Europe you mostly have class 1 e-bikes and obviously illegal (as in you can tell just by looking at them), but in the US you have these plus a lot of class 2 and 3 e-bikes, and overclocked class 1 e-bikes. The end result is most mountain bike trails in Europe allow class 1 e-bikes only, but in the US it's impossible to enforce class 1 only, so a lot of regions are trending towards banning all e-bikes from all trails. So be careful about wishing for a more powerful e-bike you can drive in traffic and mountain bike trails.

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Post by urbandw311er »

Toutouxc wrote: post #315
NDlurker wrote: post #66

If I ever convert my bike to electric, I'll probably go with this https://www.swytchbike.com/

Note that this is the most common and cheap approach: a hub motor, battery, controller, Hall-effect cadence sensor. There are renowned Chinese companies that sell those and you can find great deals if you shop around.

Care to share a few brand names or links?
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