ericmark
Senior Member
- Location
- Llanfair Caereinion, Mid Wales.
I have my first folding bike, so it can go in the car boot, more secure than a bike rack, but heavy, specially being electric. The battery will come off easy enough, and the seat will come off, but the bike is in the main one big lump.
I also have a mobility scooter, seat comes off, and tiller folds, the two batteries come off and the rear wheels and motor comes off, and I remember on a walk with late father, stripping in, carrying it over a stile, and rebuilding the other side, although in the main it went in my car whole, it could be carried in other cars by stripping it down.
A folding bike light enough to lift over a stile by a 70 year old, is unlikely to carry 22 stone, and lifting the bike into car boot is not the easiest operation. Hopefully the driving licence will arrive soon and the bike will become recreational rather than essential transport and I can travel to where I want to ride it, on the flat, which means no need for electric, so maybe another bike that folds, and maybe even carried on a bus, Dolgellau to Barmouth is a lovely flat run on the old railway line, but the return stretches it a bit, specially if light sand has blown on the track to the bridge, catching the bus one way makes sense.
Having two even weights one carried in each hand is easier than one big lump. The mobility scooter has spring brakes magnet release so no cable to brakes or motor, simple electric connections, but sure with epicyclic gears, and new type brakes it is not insurmountable to have the bike split it half. So is it done?
I also have a mobility scooter, seat comes off, and tiller folds, the two batteries come off and the rear wheels and motor comes off, and I remember on a walk with late father, stripping in, carrying it over a stile, and rebuilding the other side, although in the main it went in my car whole, it could be carried in other cars by stripping it down.
A folding bike light enough to lift over a stile by a 70 year old, is unlikely to carry 22 stone, and lifting the bike into car boot is not the easiest operation. Hopefully the driving licence will arrive soon and the bike will become recreational rather than essential transport and I can travel to where I want to ride it, on the flat, which means no need for electric, so maybe another bike that folds, and maybe even carried on a bus, Dolgellau to Barmouth is a lovely flat run on the old railway line, but the return stretches it a bit, specially if light sand has blown on the track to the bridge, catching the bus one way makes sense.
Having two even weights one carried in each hand is easier than one big lump. The mobility scooter has spring brakes magnet release so no cable to brakes or motor, simple electric connections, but sure with epicyclic gears, and new type brakes it is not insurmountable to have the bike split it half. So is it done?
