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Electric bike, stupid love of my life

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Re: Electric bike, stupid love of my life

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Good ebikes are/will be 75-150lbs.

wtf, no? How would a 150 lbs ebike even look like? That's an electric moped.

Sur Ron light bee X is 110 lbs Sur Ron ultra bee is 187 lbs

So I guess it would look, almost exactly, halfway between these

Re: Electric bike, stupid love of my life

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wtf, no? How would a 150 lbs ebike even look like? That's an electric moped.

Sur Ron light bee X is 110 lbs Sur Ron ultra bee is 187 lbs So I guess it would look, almost exactly, halfway between these

The Light Bee X and Ultra Bee are full on electric motorcycles though, not exactly ebikes.

Re: Electric bike, stupid love of my life

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I made my own electric bike by purchasing a brand new Stevens City Flyer and mounting a TongSheng Tsdz2 Mid Drive motor to it. It is light, fast, and really easy to maintain. I've been riding it daily for the past 3 years and it has brought me so much joy. It changed where I can live and work. I'm running open source software, so the top speed is only thermally limited. https://github.com/emmebrusa/TSDZ2-Smart-EBike-…

Different bike but same motor, it’s a great setup :)

Re: Electric bike, stupid love of my life

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Sur Ron light bee X is 110 lbs Sur Ron ultra bee is 187 lbs So I guess it would look, almost exactly, halfway between these

The Light Bee X and Ultra Bee are full on electric motorcycles though, not exactly ebikes.

I think technically mopeds, but yes. It's a weird and convoluted space now. Just as an example -- people will purposely install bicycle pedals on Surrons to make it look like they are just assisted ebikes or something.

https://currentebikes.com/wp-content/uploads/california_elec...

Re: Electric bike, stupid love of my life

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If you are a tourist in a Dutch city you will quickly be disabused of the notion that there is no road rage between pedestrians and cyclists. Do not ever idly wander into a Dutch cycle lane, at any cost. You will be treated as invisible, people will cycle straight through you. Should they for some reason take notice of you, they will not slow down one bit, but swerve away imperceptibly, infinitesimally, from a collis…

Oops, I see everyone misread my comment. I meant to say road rage between cyclists and road rage between pedestrians. Not between cyclists and pedestrians. The difference is car people have road rage with each other . Pedestrians and cyclists intermingling is a problem with the infrastructure. Car people can't even blame that as they have the best infrastructure of them all.

Road rage between cyclists definitely still exists, and personally I can recall a few incidents (of my entire life) that might count as road rage between pedestrians. I think this is all proportional to how to can intimidate people with tool you have; motor vehicles are much more powerful so people become much more entitled.
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