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It's a rad power bikes. It does not charge because the center contact is partially vaporized and won't make contact with the barrel plug anymore.
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Whoever mentioned Priority Bikes, thank you. I fell down the rabbit hole and ended up buying a Priority 600. Now to find a 1700W hub motor that I can hook up to a spare wheel.
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Sounds like bafang is making an automatic 3 speed internally geared hub that's designed for their ebike motors. https://electrek.co/2022/06/21/bafang-three-speed-hub-electric-bike/ I haven't seen anything about cost or what dropout sizes they will fit, but it sounds like a really cool idea. If I blow up my sturmey archer hub I might replace it with one.
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acidx posted:Sounds like bafang is making an automatic 3 speed internally geared hub that's designed for their ebike motors.
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kimbo305 posted:Called up the local Tern dealer about schedule for the Quick Haul. They said they'd placed their yearly order and were expecting "a couple" to show up August, or possibly October if things get delayed. Can't put a deposit on one Yeah welcome to the rona’ed bike retail channel.
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. And that at last they can't place orders to Tern. So need to remember to check in then. I was sorta keen to use these people cuz they're a 1 min walk from my house.
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Welp, a warning to those who've not yet had the experience: if you're gonna lift your 50+ lbs ebike, lift with your loving legs and use two hands, don't just awkwardly try to finagle it with one. My weekend is now dedicated to nursing my first back muscle strain 
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I recomend weed and light stretching so you don't seize up all on one side.
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Also going for a couple walks is better than being entirely sedentary. Get well soon!
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What's everyone's opinion on converting a normal bike to an e-Bike? I have a lead on a good, reasonably priced fat-tire bike that will be great for snowy riding and a good compliment to my current commuter... but it will be heavy, and I have a few hills to manage that would make it difficult/impractical. The E-Bike option could be a good route to take, but I'm wondering if the conversion would be an even better choice. Does anyone personally have any experience with brands to check out or avoid? Is it worth it to go the conversion route?
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Before diving in you should decide if you want mid drive or hub drive and if you want torque sensing or basic cadence sensing or if you want a home built moped.
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I recommend Grinn tech for hub drive. Their base/phaserunner controller is great and very customizable with a PC. https://ebikes.ca For mid drive your probably going to be looking for a bafang or tongshen reseller, Luna cycles might still be good, but I haven't dealt with them.
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When I did all my research for converting my (non fatbike commuter) I settled on a direct drive hub motor from Grin. It's been great so far, they are expensive but very well supported and high quality, plus as mentioned hilariously customizable.
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Sab0921 posted:I need someone to tell me I'm very stupid for wanting to buy an Urban Arrow since the third kid is coming and the trailer will not fit them all - it does not feel like a good use of $8000 but I really want it! Do it! I went for it a few months ago, and it's replaced a car for us. If there's anything you want to know, just ask, and I'll answer in the thread.
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I don't own an eBike, but I've tested them (at a company I was at over a year ago). Today I tried a neighbor's $9500 Specialized 29'er eMTB just up and down the block, and that was freaking nuts. So much power.
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Idk poo poo about biking or e-bikes but we moved to a house that's a block away from one of those drop bike stations and now I e-bike everywhere for like $30/mo. I'd consider getting my own bike but it sounds like they're pretty expensive and I live up a hill so not having electric assist sounds like a nightmare for my flabby rear end. I guess what I'm saying is e-bikes rule.
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Justa Dandelion posted:Idk poo poo about biking or e-bikes but we moved to a house that's a block away from one of those drop bike stations and now I e-bike everywhere for like $30/mo. I'd consider getting my own bike but it sounds like they're pretty expensive and I live up a hill so not having electric assist sounds like a nightmare for my flabby rear end.
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mystes posted:Securing ebikes at your destination is definitely a problem so if you have access with a bikeshare system with ebikes for $30/mo it makes a ton of sense to just use that. If you have to leave a bike alone for some time, a removable battery helps. It doesn't stop someone from throwing the rest into the back of a truck, but it's a lot harder to ride off on 50lb of unpowered aluminum. That said if I had a an e-bike share station on my block I would be using the poo poo out of it.
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$30 per month is a great price
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That's less than I pay for the insurance on my car that I drive only once a week.
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For the thirty billionth time I've stopped at a cafe, used the cafe lock, and then yeeted my bike against the locked rear wheel because I forgot I used the cafe lock.
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Same, but ulock just on my wheel and frame.
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Just got my Rad City 4 in a few days ago. I was going to spend like $3600 on Tern, but decided to try something cheaper first to see how I like it. I've got to say, i'm a little surprised with how...big... this bike feels. It's not uncomfortable, it just feels...robust. It's been great though. I've been running all my errands on it, and have ridden probably 4x as many miles as I normally would. Can't believe how long the battery lasts either. I do feel this occasional e-bike guilt, where it's helping me go up a killer hill I normally wouldn't try, and I feel like I should be working harder. Overall it's getting me out more, but I can't shake that feeling sometimes. Anyone else get that?
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frogbs posted:I do feel this occasional e-bike guilt, where it's helping me go up a killer hill I normally wouldn't try, and I feel like I should be working harder. Overall it's getting me out more, but I can't shake that feeling sometimes. Anyone else get that? 🤷🏻♂️ People using regular bikes could always be running up those hills instead of relying on the crutch of a machine. I don’t think that any one way is more valid, it’s just what you personally enjoy more and can/will do. I’m a bit bummed in a way that I will probably have to mostly use an e-bike thanks to my exceptionally poor stewardship of my knees while running in my youth, but that’s just because I really enjoy the runner’s high/meditative parts of intense extended cardio.
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Diamondback's got a sale on their Union commuters. 3000 for the base with Bosch https://www.diamondback.com/union-1-4664
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Got myself a Walmart Hyper 250w e-bike, literally the cheapest I could find as I didn’t know if I’d like riding or not. Turns out I do lol The thing barely gets me an hour of riding though at the top PAS mode, and its weak motor doesn’t help all that much. But now I’m not sure just what kind of bike I want. I’d LOVE an Ariel Rider Grizzly but no way am I spending that much. Something like that though would be great. This is a fun club to be in though.
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Welcome! Next step up might be a Rad Power bike. They're solidly pretty good. I got passed by a couple riding them a few days back, and they seemed to be enjoying it. Flip through and see what you like: https://www.radpowerbikes.com/collections/electric-bikes
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Safety Dance posted:Welcome! Yeah, Rad is a really impressive operation, they're certainly not aiming at the top-of-the-line luxury market but you really make surprisingly few concessions when getting one given the price tag.
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Hello thread! I’ve been out of the bicycle game for a long time and would like to start riding to work instead of driving. My commute has gone from ~40 miles each way to 7 miles round trip. Getting TO work isn’t an issue, but getting home when I’ll be tired and it’s hot has me worried. The other issue is that it’s all downhill on my way there but it’s something like a 500’ elevation gain coming home. I’m in decent shape but definitely not able to ride a traditional bike up those hills. Would an E bike be a good option for me?
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E-bike sounds like a great option for you. Arrive to work smelling nice, get home all sweaty.
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Aperture Priority posted:Hello thread! I’ve been out of the bicycle game for a long time and would like to start riding to work instead of driving. My commute has gone from ~40 miles each way to 7 miles round trip. Getting TO work isn’t an issue, but getting home when I’ll be tired and it’s hot has me worried. The other issue is that it’s all downhill on my way there but it’s something like a 500’ elevation gain coming home. I’m in decent shape but definitely not able to ride a traditional bike up those hills. Would an E bike be a good option for me?
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i have ~140ft of elevation gain on my 1 mile commute, and my 250w class 1 e-bike (Cannondale treadwell neo 2) crushes it pretty easily. i definitely would not be riding up this hill on a normal bike.
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So I got the Rad Power front rack, but on my Rad City there really isn't that much space between the bottom of the rack and the top of my bars. I was going to mount a milk crate up-front, but it just wont fit. Does anyone know if the mounting points on Rad's bikes with smaller wheels are lower? Maybe on the Rad Wagon? I was hoping to put my dog in a milk crate mounted out front, but there isn't nearly enough room :-(
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I checked out the product page of my bike at the local shop I got my e-MTB, mostly because I was trying to find out some spec. Noticed that they bumped it up by 1000€. E-bike prices are just ridiculous.
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Booo this take https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/08/ebike-electric-bikes-climate-change-exercise/671305/ quote:Bikes have always worn many helmets: cycling as exercise, cycling as leisure, cycling as sport, cycling as transit. These roles often conflict with one another. The commuter sneers at the spinner, who pedals pointlessly to nowhere. The leisure-rider spurs the Lycra-racer, who endangers pedestrians and inspires drivers to hate cyclists. E-bikes continue, and worsen, that disorder by jumbling up aspects of bicycles and motorcycles. Strapping a motor to a bike turns out to alter more than just speed and exertion. It produces a chameleon that takes on, under various conditions, both the best and worst features of a variety of transportation technologies. The result is less an evolution of a two-wheeled machine than a pastiche of the many things such a device represents. It’s a monster made from bicycles and motorbikes. Booooooo!
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Once again, The Atlantic demonstrates it will publish just about any sufficiently inflammatory take as long as it's been wrapped in a thin veneer of academic language.
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The author is just dumb and completely unable to grasp the idea of the bike as a utilitarian form of transportation as opposed to exercise or some sort of weird lifestyle status symbol Like quote:Perhaps my e-bike ambivalence comes in part from the bike’s strange social status. An e-bike isn’t cheap—the least expensive ones are about $1,000, and they go up to $5,000 or more. But the symbolic value one receives in exchange is minimal. Spending five large on a conventional bike would get you a status symbol—you’d come off as a cyclist for sure quote:Counterintuitively, because the e-bike is easier to ride than a normal bike, I feel less inclined to adopt it as a regular practice, let alone a whole commuting identity. All the downsides of biking still remain, without the satisfaction of persisting in the face of adversity. That last quote makes it sound like they might be opposed to safe cycling infrastructure; after all once biking is safe like in the Netherlands biking is a boring thing everyone does rather than a cool thing special hardcore bike people do The Atlantic is good at publishing stuff like this that's almost like a caricature of what conservatives might imagine liberals think mystes fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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Oh holy poo poo it's Ian Bogost. He taught at my college and then I used to troll him on Twitter before he got too annoying.
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I mean, no poo poo he doesn't see all the benefits if he's only riding around NYC. It's flat and dense there. The main reasons I've looked into e-bikes are that it's hilly as gently caress here and everything's inconveniently far for a normal bike.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I mean, no poo poo he doesn't see all the benefits if he's only riding around NYC. It's flat and dense there. The main reasons I've looked into e-bikes are that it's hilly as gently caress here and everything's inconveniently far for a normal bike. He probably also hates single speed bikes and cruisers and every bike that's not the kind of bike he's riding too mystes fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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