A “fairly powerful” 250 watt hub motor? That’s pretty much the least powerful motor you can find for an ebike and it’s a hub motor to boot. I’m not surprised he was feeling that hill by the end.
I used to work for newspapers and magazines: This regularly drove me nuts. It’s not even necessarily the editor that writes or changes them, it can just be a random copy editor too. They fucked up my captions regularly on photos and at least half a dozen headlines too.
Downhill or flat land, you can probably get going pretty fast. Uphill, these things are dogshit.
People who do ride recumbent trikes or velomobiles usually have a flag on a pole to help with visibility, but I would probably not take one of these things on my daily commute. I’ve only ever seen people ride them on bike trails and sidewalks, maybe a side street here and there.
Generally, I think you’d probably be fine but rules vary from state to state and even trail to trail so I don’t know that there’s a hard answer to that one.
Based on other reports of US bribery, it might not even be that much. Politicians seem to be on sale for shockingly little money sometimes, especially at the local level.
There are absolutely people who live in the suburbs and still use some form of micromobility as regular transport. I live in a suburb and commute by bicycle or ebike almost every day unless the weather is really bad or I have to haul something very heavy/big.
Yeah, compared to my regular bike, my ebike rides like shit. I wish I’d bought a more traditional bicycle-like ebike rather than my cheap folding Chinesium bike shaped object.
I tried to ride Trek’s new ebike up the steepest hill in Seattle — and it didn’t go as planned (www.tomsguide.com)
10 ways Velotric's electric bikes are built differently: Deep-dive on the Discover 2 (electrek.co)
China's sweeping new e-bike battery rules could have a major impact in US (electrek.co)
Forget aerobars: Ars tries out an entire aerobike (arstechnica.com)
Taking to the road in a modern, high-speed version of a 40-year-old dream.
Michigan Dems OK $3M for e-bike discounts. GOP says plan is off the rails | Bridge Michigan (www.bridgemi.com)
'Pretty remarkable': UBC study finds e-bike rebates led to decreased car use (bc.ctvnews.ca)
TIL Many bronze age peoples forgot what stone age tools were, and thought discovered ones as some kind of mystical talismans or signs from a thunder god (www.theguardian.com)
Also mistaken for fulgurite by the more naturalistically minded, apparently. Maybe most common in the Nordics, based on viking references?...
Bike brands start to adopt C-V2X to warn cyclists about cars (arstechnica.com)
Man decides it’s just easier to become climate change denier than waste his life washing out food containers (newsthump.com)
DEA agent seeks federal immunity after allegedly killing Salem cyclist (www.youtube.com)