The SW Ridge Dr hill south of Stanley Ct, 80-ish lb kid, #superCargo with 350W #HillTopper front hub motor. I think I was distracted talking about the motor and probably could have mashed the throttle more in the flat spot between these two lumps. #eBikes
Probably dumb but thought it might be a thing. Got a standard, small, two-wheel trailer and wondered whether it could actually stabilize my ride. Maybeweigh it down some or modify it somehow? I’m talking for slippery conditions.
"I get that there is a legitimate case to make that we have to dismantle capitalism to effectively address climate, but I can't imagine any scenario in which the starting point for that project is #eBikes..." 💯 -- @chrissmithus
if you want to do 28mph, the 62lb HSD costs $5k and comes in only one color. #eBikes#BikeTooter The 11-36 cassette seems quaint though, having the same range as the $4300 P10 which is just speed limited to 20 (try 11-42t at least, what year is it in your cassette inventory?)
ted wheeler is the kind of leader to talk about things being 10 years in the future when he should be talking about making it happen next year (in this case it was #eBikes, and even the cheap ones with plastic tri-spoke wheels are a better mayor than him.)
four-wheeled cargo #ebikes, sometimes referred to as #biketrucks or #bikevans, haven’t been legal in #NYC due to local ordinances that limit #cargobikes to three wheels and a maximum width of 36 inches.
Today I realized that if I could ever figure out how to get my #eBikes' #regenBraking to work right (currently can't get over 300W), I could be pedaling hard to get down the hill, which should give me extra points with the piously sweating club that likes to grouse about how e-bikes will make us dependent on motors and don't you know lithium and cobalt mining are incredibly damaging to the environment sorry what I can't hear you over the CAR traffic.
#Luna sells some special #ebikes and motos, and the Ludi X2, which bridges the two, might be the best example of that. They took the Class 3 500W-rated #Bafang M600 Motor that advertises 120Nm of torque and are pumping more than quadruple rated power through there, sometimes up to 2500W.
While I was only its CTO for a month before a layoff in 2022, I still dream of owning a Vässla Pedal e-bike (or preferably an unreleased successor that improved a few things).
I hope a company with better operations management buys its intellectual property because this e-bike design was beautiful, functional, and not just a motor bolted onto a bicycle.
what's with the #eBike obsessed bot/"Name12345" accounts on the bird site lately? A bunch of them had the same cleavage-laden profile pics and links to "dating" sites, but some are just faceless and very into e-bikes?
The moral panic about #eBikes needs to result in mandatory helmet laws for all car occupants, especially #EVs
(yet another NYT article about people getting hit with cars, and blaming anything but cars)
#WorkZoneWTF#BarburBlvd + the 2nd and 3rd time passing this same bus since the bottom of the hill. We really need our #transportation agencies to do better for people on #eBikes, but what is it going to take? Is that a memo from the governor/mayor and they'll start actually caring, or we just delete ODOT/PBOT and start fresh with safety-by-design as an operations culture? #ClimateEmergency vs institutional delay excuses etc 🙄 but all I see is stalling and a #Portland for #Cars1stAlwaysOnly.
