@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.
My oldest will be commuting to community college next year so she'll be taking my car (a plug-in Prius). My wife has been concerned about us possibly getting a third car BUT I think I might have a better solution: an e-bike.
My current job has me a few miles from the house, and I'm currently exploring remote/hybrid possibilities. Anyone with e-bike experience, what should I be looking for in an e-bike? Anything bikes I should consider or stay away from? I'm in the US if that matters.
I got some custom side panels made for my #BullittX and I'm super happy with how they came out. Mike at Tinkering Monkey in Berkeley did an incredible job with them. The left-hand, car-facing side shows the Keeling Curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve), the message being that we're not making real progress on #ClimateChange. The right-hand, sidewalk-facing side shows a quote from my friend Ronnie, who was talking about me being insufficiently annoying about #EBikes. #BikeTooter#LarryVsHarry
Decarbonising freight is critical to decarbonising the transport sector and meeting Australia's climate targets. ClimateWorks report on Delivering freight decarbonisation: Strategies for reducing Australia’s transport emissions.
"Three types of solutions to reduce freight emissions have been set out in this report. First, solutions that make trips shorter or reduce the level of transport activity. Second, solutions that shift freight to lower-emissions modes such as rail or e-cargo-bikes; these also offer major benefits in terms of reducing congestion on Australia’s roads as the freight task grows. Third, decarbonisation solutions can be achieved through improved energy intensity of vehicles and reduced carbon intensity of fuels. Enlisting a suite of solutions in an integrated way, can help Australia reach its emissions targets and also improve other outcomes, such as productivity and impacts on health and liveability" #Freight#TransportEmissions#Ebikes#CargoBikes#Logistics#ClimateSolutions#ClimateCrisis
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?)
A few years ago, I predicted car and motorcycle manufacturers would get into the e-bike market given the high demand, decent margin, and ability to differentiate with established design and manufacturing capabilities.
Harley-Davidson’s fugly and overpriced Serial1 did not prove me right.
However, Mini announced its E-Bike 1. It’s beautiful and priced appropriately within the high end range.
You know, if those trips were going to be taken on bikes without motors, they already would. #eBikes are the bikes that don't gather dust in the back of the garage, that actually replace car trips. Some people don't need them, but the people still in cars clearly aren't those ones.
"In 2021, half of all trips in the United States were less than three miles, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Making those short trips on an e-bike instead of in a car would likely save people money, cut their emissions, and improve their health and happiness."
@TheWarOnCars I started making these sub-3-mile trips by cargo #eBikes in 2014, before xtracycle had an electric edgerunner model, with a bbs02 750W mid-drive motor. Within about 1yr, we decided we no longer needed the second car & had dramatically reduced mileage on the primary car too. Many trips to take kids to school and get groceries add up, activities that we used to drive across town for are replaced with closer activities where it was too far to walk but hard to park a car there, &c...
@TheWarOnCars I have 9000 miles on the edgerunner and maybe half that again between the other bikes without odometers, so maybe 1500 bike miles per year displaced 3x that, around 4500 annual car miles, from our lives and budgets, so much money, less stress in traffic, better health, I just can't even spend enough money on #eBikes to break even. #cargoBikes#LeaveTheCarAtHome#eBikesChangeLives#BikeTooter
For years I've wanted to go to #Chicago and do a tour of #streetfood / #workingclass food entirely by bike. I also want to explore the inland waterways.
I'd love to take my own bike via #amtrak from NY, find a place to stay, and GoPro the whole thing.
I've started my map. That's always the first step.