Our first electric bicycle was my Dad’s Pedego Trike. Purchased 2019. Dad was worried his driver’s licence might not be renewed in his late 80s. This was a back-up plan.
It worked well for Dad (VIDEO), though he wasn’t keen to take it out unless weather was great.
He DID keep his driver’s licence to age-94.
Later, my brother and his wife purchased good value Ebgo e-bikes at Costco.
As a daily pedal bike cyclist, I’ve always pooh-poohed LAZY making bikes. 😀
However, it is clear to me that e-bikes are the future.
And recently I’ve been out on my brother’s electric a lot.
It’s not cycling. Riding an e-Bike is closer to riding an electric motorbike.
Motorbikes are fun. e-Bikes are fun.
They are much quicker than a pedal bike. Ours easily goes up to about 32km / hour.
Great for short trips — but not much fitness benefit.
On the down side, I find them much more dangerous than pedal bikes. Acceleration of electric vehicles is often faster than expected. And our Ebgo bikes sometimes simply take off without being prompted. I have to keep my hands on the brakes at all times, just in case.
This particular e-Bike is great on pavement. Good on hard pack and hard gravel. Poor for loose gravel and technical single track.
Here I am riding gravel to go check out possible hiking trails on Vancouver Island. Reconnaissance.
One day on this gravel trail out of Parksville, I turned back — two small bears made me think MOMMA might be close.
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Rick McCharles 