@DrTCombs 🫣 that rear rack capacity, hot dang. This bike may be in our future… The inability to carry an adult on the rear rack disqualifies most midtails for us.
@dx same!
But I'm curious if this bike would solve problem of my heels and my kid's toes colliding when I pedal. It's a new problem; didn't exist before her feet hit a growth spurt.
@DrTCombs If I remember correctly, you have the Benno Boost? I can't imagine there's too much discerpancy in rack length, but I wonder if the lower rack on the HSD makes for more favorable geometry in that regard - legs & feet being a bit lower down relative to pedaling feet
@dx yep, and aside from being boring and noisy and slightly too large for me, the heel-on-toe thing is the only real problem I've got with it. The rack probably isn't any longer than on the tern, but it does sit higher.
the kid'll grumble about having a lower seat but I'll be having too much fun to hear her (assuming I come up with a good enough reason to upgrade other than intense, implacable desire)
@DrTCombs We've got a boost (first gen, so not even the newer ones with the sexy seat tube battery placement), but we've also got a second kid now. Eventually in 2-3 years we will probably need/want 2 ebikes for occasions where one kid-parent pair is going to a different place than the other. So I'm hoping that gives me a good excuse for a new bike :)
On the one hand the promo pics don't seem to be very reassuring with regards to the game of physiological tetris you're playing
On the other hand it does show the passenger with their knees forward and not their toes, which suggests it's possible your passenger could be trying harder lol
@DrTCombs our problem now is finding the funds for it. Target is uphill both ways, about 2 miles away. Also is only 1.5 miles away, again uphill both ways. An ebike saves us the climbs. Of course, there are no bike lanes, but I have little fear of cars right now. I'm just sick of having to hop in the car (a sedan) to go to either place.
yesterday I saw a server at a restaurant e-biking to work and thought how much an e-bike tax credit would have helped her. but no, we save those gifts for folks with money to burn.
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