@bikepedantic $600 off of madsen #cargoBikes = ~$4400 for the #eBikes with rain canopy, lights, front rack. (48V 750W bbs02 motor, thru-axle, mech disk brakes, 9sp)
I gotta say, as an immigrant, I am NOT feeling great about today's election results in the Netherlands.
And as a former resident of the UK, I clearly remember how Brexit was just a stupid joke made by a small party ... until it wasn't.
It's so frustrating to me to see the problems created by right-wing neoliberalism and then having people respond to that by moving further to the right. 😬
@scott@notjustbikes strong disagree on un"fixable within a generation", 1. #eBikes, and 2. #GlobalWarming doesn't give us time to mess around much longer. The grid streets and streetcar suburbs are just a few dozen steel bollards or jersey barriers away from a connected low stress bikeway network, and the truly sprawling suburbs aren't dense enough to matter (if they were, add some five over ones and trolleybus lines to create the 15 minute neighborhoods.) Politics yeah but boomers are dying.
"280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles. E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world." #ebikes#BikeTooter
City dwellers across Europe are ditching their cars – and traffic jams, hefty bills and the weight of climate guilt – for cargo bikes. Writing for The Next Web, Siôn Geschwindt explains why he became one of them. https://flip.it/LdM3gU #Tech#EBikes#Technology#Culture
We keep willfully ignoring the actual solution for urban and suburban transport.
We still let the car industry lead with the preservation of their profits instead of looking at what's actually working.
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
@kim_harding imagine if bikes had the infrastructure and subsidy that we lavish on cars! Let alone the money we throw at consumers to get them to buy #EVs 🙃 #eBikes#ClimateAction
@frostpendeln schon klar, ich meinte auch eher die allgemeine Marktsituation & wie in letzter Zeit Monster #ebikes in Preisregionen eines Gebrauchtwagens von der #Fahrrad Industrie medial gepuscht wurde.
#regenBraking on #eBikes can save you the cost of your first replacement battery in brake pad maintenance (assuming that your max regen amps setting correctly limits the current into the battery so you don't destroy it... 😖 why is it that mine is set to 12A but the CA says we're only doing 6A, 250-300W instead of 700? The energy is there, it just quits resisting, we keep picking up speed until I engage the mechanical brakes. Best advice was to set it at 24A!? 😬)
direct drive #eBikes motors don't much mind being rusty, with water and bits of metal rolling around inside of them. 🤯 Or just drill huge holes in the side of it and let the water come and go as it pleases.
Hey nerds! Join me and @bikeloudpdx for #HackNight this Thursday at 7, back online for the winter (or maybe it is online/hybrid if you invite friends over.) We've got maps-vs-reality updates, #open311 data and budget analysis projects, #eBikes experiments, all kinds of tech fun to dig into if you want to help make #Portland a better city for everyone.
“Today, Persico considers herself a bicycle activist. For those looking to make the switch, or even just for those looking to take more trips locally via bike, Persico said if she can do it, anyone can. At 58 years old with bad arthritis, she said she’s happy to help answer people’s questions and encourage anyone who’s hoping to bike more in the city.” Man, what a great piece. 👏🏻❤️⚡️🚲 https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/SF-electric-bike-savings-16087579.php#EBikes#BikeTooter
This trip reduction seems to be about the 10 largest cities, so the numbers are out of scale with the US, but the bigger factor might be the factor of ~3x car miles per #eBikes mile, in my experience, due to changing which trips you take, taking even shorter ones because you couldn't park a car there but it was too far to walk. There's also a couple more factors (exponents?) in the bigger picture with the impacts on future housing density and trip generation.
to get to a 52V #SuperCapacitor with 20 x 2.7V 3000F capacitors at 5.35 x 2.36 inches each, $30 each and $50 in balancing boards, like $750 maybe all in a case 24 x 5 x 6in and they're 3Wh/each so 60Wh, 3.6kW*minutes! 1kW for 3.6min, etc. the cargo #eBikes would zip but that's overkill for a personal bike. I have no idea what I'm doing or what it weighs.