Some very interesting findings to me today after a hard ride on my eHybrid bike with some aero bars fitted……
1: Make sure your mini pump works, the ride was cut short by a puncture, no problems got the tyre off, new inner tube fitted, than realised the mini pump wasn’t working….had to call for a pick up!
2: Aero really does make a difference, with the aero bars I was able to get within 1mph of my road bike with drops on a relative flat section. I can see why TT bikes are needed if you really want to hit a fast average speed.
3: Even though my eBike is considered to have a ‘weak’ 250Watts motor it makes mince meat out of hill, smashed my PB on a 8% climb which I only recently managed to get close to my previous PB set when I was 7 years
4: eBikes have a surprising amount of range when your trying to smash it on the road, I used 37% charge on my Boardman which has a relatively small 250watt/hr battery to cover 21 miles with a reasonable amount of climbing at over 18mph average. So in theory 100-0% on the battery should cover over 50 miles of range easily, and nearly 3000ft of climbing.
5: eBikes are just fun, now that I can get into an aero position on my hybrid, I can see my self hardly touching my road bike over the winter. Up until the puncture, todays ride was one of the most fun I’ve done in a while, my legs also still aches like crazy as you would expect from trying to push a near 20kg bike at a reasonable pace over 20 miles.
1: Make sure your mini pump works, the ride was cut short by a puncture, no problems got the tyre off, new inner tube fitted, than realised the mini pump wasn’t working….had to call for a pick up!
2: Aero really does make a difference, with the aero bars I was able to get within 1mph of my road bike with drops on a relative flat section. I can see why TT bikes are needed if you really want to hit a fast average speed.
3: Even though my eBike is considered to have a ‘weak’ 250Watts motor it makes mince meat out of hill, smashed my PB on a 8% climb which I only recently managed to get close to my previous PB set when I was 7 years
4: eBikes have a surprising amount of range when your trying to smash it on the road, I used 37% charge on my Boardman which has a relatively small 250watt/hr battery to cover 21 miles with a reasonable amount of climbing at over 18mph average. So in theory 100-0% on the battery should cover over 50 miles of range easily, and nearly 3000ft of climbing.
5: eBikes are just fun, now that I can get into an aero position on my hybrid, I can see my self hardly touching my road bike over the winter. Up until the puncture, todays ride was one of the most fun I’ve done in a while, my legs also still aches like crazy as you would expect from trying to push a near 20kg bike at a reasonable pace over 20 miles.
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